The Lemko Research Foundation, Inc. (LRF) in the United States is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2014-2015 book publishing contest is War Comes To Karlykiv by Dr. Stephen Rapawy. War Comes To Karlykiv is a personal memoir, written in English, describing events that occurred in the village of Karlykiv (located in the Sanok…
Bogata kultura dwóch mało znanych grup etnicznych, które – sąsiadując ze sobą – od pokoleń zamieszkiwały tereny Podkarpacia, przez wielu została skazana na zapomnienie. Wydobywa ją na światło dzienne najnowszy album wydawnictwa Bosz “Karpacki świat Bojków i Łemków”.
Strzyżenie owcy, Komańcza, pow. Sanok, czerwiec 1937.•Wyd. BoszPonad 200 unikatowych zdjęć autorstwa Romana Reinfussa ukazuje codzienną rzeczywistość…
Picture: Nicholas BervinchakThe Ukrainian Museum and Library of Stamford, Conn., had its beginnings with the 1933 purchase of the Quintard estate by Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky and his plan to establish a cultural institution there. It would become the first major Ukrainian cultural institution in the U.S. In that same year, Paul Daubner, a Hungarian-born church…
Right in the south-eastern corner of Poland, in the Low Beskid Mountains, lies a land called Lemkivshchyna. Nowadays remote and sparsely populated, this territory is the ancestral home of one of Europe’s most distinct minorities – the Lemkos. Who are they and why do they live in exile? What are the historical origins of the…
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New OOL Branches in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Syracuse PHILADELPHIA – It was back on September 9, 1933, that a small group of immigrants gathered on 13th Street in New York City with the goal of providing material and moral support to their homeland:…
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OOL Information Session by M.Howansky in Philadelphia, PA Many thanks to Ivan and Anna Yavorsky and Basia Barna Andrushko from OOL Branch # 6 for organizing the OOL Information Session in Philadelphia, PA on April 22, 2018 conducted by OOL National Board members…
OOL Information Session by M.Howansky in Pittsburgh, PA…
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Syracuse Branch of Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna is reactivated Participants of the OOL Information Session in Syracuse, N.Y. Picture by Tatiana Galinskaia SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Representatives from Canada and the United States of the Organization for the Defense of Lemkiv-shchyna and the president of…
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February 2, 2019 – The 11th Branch of OOL held their Annual General Meeting in Albany, NY.
Front Row (L-R): John Senick, Mark Howansky-President-OOL, John Suchowacki-President, Capital District Branch 11, Maria Bilica-Secretary, Stefan Jedynak-Treasurer Back Row (L-R): John Fil, Janina Jedrak, Leon Hojniak, Melanie Suchowacki, Walter and Irene Madzelan, Evan and Andrij Demczar, Stefania Szewczuk,…
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