This book was first published in Lviv in 1936, and only few copies made it to the USA. Even though this book does not cover, with its contents, the entire history of Lemkivshchyna, but until a better work appears – we feel that it will be beneficial to release it among Ukrainians from Lemkivshchyna, on…

A Ukrainian ethnic group which until 1946 lived in the most western part of Ukraine on both sides of the Carpathian Mountainsand along the Polish-Slovak border (see Lemko region). The name seems to be derived from the frequent use of the word lem ‘only’ by the Lemkos. They usually call themselves rusnaky or rusyny(Ruthenians). Scholars and the intelligentsia began to use the name Lemko for…