Newest publication of Lemko Research Foundation

Dictionary of Lemko Dialect by Petro Pyrtej This dictionary presents the diversity of the Lemko dialect – one of the Carpathian dialects of the south-western dialect group of the Ukrainian language. The publication contains words, phrases and idioms that reproduce the particularities of the everyday life, economic activity and cultural heritage of the Lemkos, representing…

ByAndriy KhomykDecember 9, 20210Comments

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LRF member Michael Buryk – guest curator of Barvinchak’s exhibition in NYC

Art at the Institute was pleased to present an exhibition of etchings by American artist of Lemko ancestry, Nicholas Bervinchak (1903-1978). Executed mostly during the Great Depression and into the following decade, these prints document the miners, tools, working conditions, and family life surrounding the isolated anthracite coal mining towns (also known as patches) of…

ByAndriy KhomykOctober 9, 20180Comments

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The General Assembly of the Lemko Research Foundation on March 15, 2018

On March 15, 2018, the 15th General Assembly of the Lemko Research Foundation (LRF) was held in the Ukrainian Center in Passaic. The President of LRF, Andriy Khomyk, opened the meeting, congratulating all the members and guests. The Chairman of the Mandate Committee, Vasyl Harhaj, confirmed the quorum according to the number of members present.…

ByAndriy KhomykApril 4, 20180Comments

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The VI SFULO Congress will take place in Lviv, Ukraine

The VI SFULO Congress Лемківські громади семи країн світу: Організацію оборони Лемківщини (США), Об’єднання лемків Канади, Об’єднання лемків (Польща), Союз русинів-українців Словацької Республіки, Союз русинів-українців Сербії, Союз русинів Хорватії та Всеукраїнське товариство «Лемківщина». Програму конгресу: 24 серпня – засідання президії СФУЛО 25 серпня з 10.00 до 18.00 – засідання конгресу в сесійній залі Львівської обласної…

ByAndriy KhomykJuly 24, 20170Comments

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Get your tickets now for the XXX National Convention Banquet & Zabava

Get your tickets now for the XXX National Convention Banquet & Zabava in Passaic, NJ - November 5

ByAndriy KhomykDecember 8, 20160Comments

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New Exhibit of the Work of Nicholas Bervinchak at the Ukrainian Museum and Library in Stamford

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…

ByAndriy KhomykSeptember 27, 20150Comments

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Leadership of Lemko Organizations Passes to Next Generation

Clifton, NJ — At the national conventions of two U.S.-based Lemko organizations this month, elections resulted in the selection of new Presidents, signaling the organizations' continuing growth and development as the baton of leadership passed from the older to the younger generation. This past Saturday, October 26th, members of the Organization for the Defense of…

ByDiana Howansky ReillyOctober 30, 20130Comments

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The first book about Lemkos.

April 2012 is the 65th anniversary of the Operation Vistula - a tragic event in the life of Lemkos, a Ukrainian ethnic minority in Poland. In 1947 Lemkos were forcibly evicted from their native land by the armed forces of the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia. As early as 1944, the governments of the Ukrainian SSR…

ByAndriy KhomykMarch 28, 20120Comments

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Members of the Organization for Defense of Lemkivshchyna and Lemko Research Foundation meet with his Excellency Bishop Paul P. Chomnycky

On April 8, 2006, representatives from the Organization for Defense of Lemkivshchyna (OOL) and the Lemko Research Foundation, Inc. (LRF) visited St. Basil's Ukrainian Catholic College Seminary to meet with his Excellency Bishop Paul Patrick Chomnycky, OSBM, who was recently installed as the fourth bishop and Eparch of the Stamford Eparchy. The purpose of this…

ByAndriy KhomykApril 8, 20060Comments

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Lemko Organization Boosts Ukrainian Studies at Columbia Libraries

Representatives from the Lemko Research Foundation, Inc. visited the campus of Columbia University in February 2006 and donated an important collection of books on Ukrainian-Lemko issues, which will help develop the Ukrainian library collection at Columbia. “We have chosen to donate these books to Columbia University because we support the mission of Columbia’s Ukrainian Studies…

ByAndriy KhomykFebruary 26, 20060Comments