6 CARPATHO--RUS, YONKERS, N.Y., MARCH 18, 1994 VOl. LXVII ANNUAL PRESS APPEAL future to travel to East Europe this spring or in the newspapers of the time and scholarly summer, either Slovakia or Poland, several monographs of today one can still find references On Sunday, March 13, 1994 at the Annual Rusyn/Lemko folk festivals are being planned in to the Baranya, East Slovak, Hutsul, or Przemysl Meeting of the Lemko Association, First District, a those countries. Perhaps your itineraries can be among others, which during the last few joint statement was made by Alexander Herenchak programmed to take the following dates into months of 1918 seemed to sprout up like and Ted Rudawsky announcing the opening of the consideration: 1994 Press Fund Appeal. mushrooms after a rainfall, but which for the most part ceased to exist when the borders of East Svidnik, Slovakia, Festival Central Europe began to stabilize as a result of the The readers kind and understanding is June 18--19, 1994 Paris Peace Conference that opened its urgently needed now. deliberations in early 1919. t Zyndranowa, Poland, Russalia Festival In your personal budget the cost of living is June 25--26, 1994 One of the least known, yet ironically constantly going one way:UP1! So it is with the perhaps the longest-lasting, of these postwar cost of the publication and circulation of our Zdynia, Poland, Vatra Festival "republics" was the Lemko Rusyn Republic (Ruska beloved Carpatho-Rus. July 22--23--24, 1994 Lemkivska Respublyka), which existed for a full sixteen months from December, 1918 to March, I use the word with special care. In the past we have noted the limited 1920. Despite its relatively long existence in Beloved Carpatho-Rus because it publishes news of of our newspaper in those countries due comparison with other post World War I ephemeral our people, their conditions and activities in to the lack of If a reader is "states," the Lemko Rusyn Republic has never been America and in the land of our ancestors, and also planning to attend one of these festivals and treated in a serious manner in scholarly literature, because it is a major instrument in keeping our desires to distribute some of our past issues of the so that all that exists on the subject are a few small language alive in a world where ethnic minorities paper, we will gladly send a supply, prior to your published and unpublished articles or parts of are often pressed into being absorbed into a larger departure. Send us your name and address and studies that deal with Lemkos in general.l. This society. They call this assimilation! the number of surplus copies desired and these will study will attempt to outline the basic facts be promptly forwarded. concerning the existence of the Lemko direct your attention to the wisdom Ed. in determine how the to the ways of your discussions about that orientation shed new country, but always retain the culture of the on the more general problem of political land of thought in western Rus'(Ukrainian) lands during the first half of the twentieth century. Our Lemko Association stands to keep us together, in contact with each other, and keeps our In Issue #2, January 21, 1994, of our Although it was based in historic Austrian newspaper we offered, through our Lemko language alive. Lemko Association this primarily Relief Galicia, which after the war became Polish-ruled through our bi-weekly newspaper, Carpatho-Rus. committee, to pay shipping charges for packages territory, the Lemko Republic was closely linked to sent to eastern Frankly, with the limited the fate of fellow Rusyns living south of the We appeal to all readers to support our resources at our disposal, this offer was made in Carpathian mountains in the Presov Region of what newspaper through your generous donations. error. We could not undertake, equitably, this offer became Czechoslovakia (see Map 1). Using more Carpatho-Rus has practically no advertising revenue when a number of packages might be sent by only modem terminology, the pOlitical activity of Lemkos and your $20. annual subscription fee does not one family. We, therefore, have to amend our offer and Rusyns on both sides of the Carpathians in cover the cost of publication and mailing. to reimburse up to a limit of $10. per family, when 1918-1920 could be considered part of the larger Therefore, we must appeal to our readers for the shipping documents are sent to our office in Ukrainian question in interwar Poland and support through donations to keep the newspaper Yonkers. We apologize for this inconvenience and Czechoslovakia. However, while it is true that published and delivered to you. oversight and trust that you, the reader, will scholarly literature since at least World War II understand. generally refers to the Lemkos and Rusyns as Some readers have already made their Ed. Ukrainians, most of the very people that are the contributions in 1994. To them, thank you, thank ******************************************** subject of this discussion would not in the years you and again thank you. 1918-1920 have considered themselves part of a The Ukrainian Question Between "Ukrainian question" for the simple reason that they Please act now and mail your donations to: Poland and Czecho-Slovakia: did not com~ider themselves Ukrainians. The Carpatho-Rus The lemko Rusyn Republic (1918-1920) explanation for this varies. Some commentators 556 Yonkers Avenue and Political Thought have argued that the LemkojRusyns had not yet Yonkers, N.Y. 10704 in Western RUff-Ukraine reached the stage of becoming nationally conscious, that is they did not identify as The 1994 Press Fund campaign will During the closing months of World War I Ukrainians. For other commentators, however, the continue through Sunday, June 26, 1994, and will in late 1918 and the break-up of the historic group was already quite conscious of belonging to conclude with a Gala Press Fund closing Banquet multinational empires that for centuries had ruled an historic entity called Rus'. To avoid the (location to announced soon). The charge for the most of East Central Europe, it became common potentially confusing and anachronistic use of dinner and entertainment will be $15. per person, nr"'f'rU'O for the ethnolinguistic or national modern terminology for earlier periods (only since including bar. groups to form councils whose goals were to World War II has the group officially been known as Bonus! Bonus! Bonus! determine their group's political These Ukrainians). I will use here the historic terms Rus' We are to announce that all national councils,as they came to be known, and Rusyn to describe respectively the territory and persons making a contribution of $100. or more will seemed to appear everywhere, but perhaps most the East Slavic population which lived in the former be guests of honor at the banquet, without charge, frequently in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austrian province of Galicia and in the northeastern Be generous, please. It was not only the "large" former minorities like the counties of Hungary, areas which after World War Larry Buranich-Garrahan Czechs, Poles, Slovaks, Croats, Slovenes, I became respectively parts of Poland and on behalf of the Central Committee Romanians, or Ukrainians who formed national Czechoslovakia. councils, but many smaller groups acted in the same way. And, like the national councils of the As for the term Lemko, it is a local name NOTICE larger groups who very soon created independent that had in the early twentieth century been republics alone or in cooperation with their adopted by those Rusyns who lived along the For those readers who plan In the near immediate neighbors, so, too, did some of these smaller groups proclaim their independence. Thus, Continued on Page 3 PAGE 2 CARPATHO--RUS FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1994 With Easter rapidly approaching we thought it would be of interest to our readers to print some KYSHKA BUCKWHEAT Prepare dough and roll very thin. Cut into of the traditional recipes of our people for the diamonds. make a slit in center. Push one end, Easter holidays. Bring to a boil 4 cups of water and 2 tsp. pulling through the slit. Deep fry in hot oil. Drain salt. Add 2 cups clean buckwheat and cook for on paper towel. Sprinkle with the icing sugar. Traditional Easter Breakfast 1/4 hour. Add 1/4 cup fat which you may cut off a ham, minced garlic and 1 tsp. pepper. PIEROGI (DUMPLINGS) Blessed Boiled Eggs Paska Mix well and cool. Spoon into clean casing Dough: Mix 2 cups flour with 1 tsp. salt. Ham and roast in an open pan where you have added Add 1 egg and 2/3 cup cool water. Knead lightly. Kyshka (buckwheat sausage) 1/2 cup lard and 1 cup water. Cover with lid and set aside. Kolbassa (ham sausage) Beet and Horseradish Relish Prick sausage with a needle to let air out. Potato Filling: Mash 4 large cooked potatoes. Butter Do not handle sausage too much when roasting as Add 1 large chopped onion sauteed in 1/2 cup Pysanky and Krashanky (decorated and it may burst the casing. vegetable oil. Season with s;:llt and pepper. Cool. colored eggs for ornamentation) EASTER SYRNYK (CHEESE CAKE) Sauerkraut Filling: Rinse 11/2Ibs. sauerkraut PASKA with hot water to remove salt. Rinse cold. The following Syrnyk is served with the Squeeze dry. Shop fine. Saute 1 large onion in 1 tsp. sugar main course at Easter time. 1/3 cup of oil. Add sauerkraut. Saute covered, for 1 cup lukewarm water 10 minutes. Season. Cool. 1 pkg.