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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…