Łemkowski bilans XX stulecia

• Authors: Bohdan Halczak

Title variants

EN

Lemkos Balance for 20st Century

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Lemkos is the farthest western ethnographic group of Ukrainians. The territory they inhabit consists of a triangular wedge jutting into West Slavic settlement, with Poles to the north and Slovacs to the south. In this paper author has analyzed situation of Lemkos in the XX century. Their situation is really difficult. The process of assimilation is coming on in extraneous enviroment. So threre is a threat of total disappearance of Lemkos in terms of seperate cultural group. The attempt of creating own, seperate Lemkos nationality seems to be impossible. Only reception of Ukrainian national identity opens a window of opportunity to salvage remains of Lemkos tradition.

Keywords

EN

Lemkos; Ukraine; national minority; Polish-Ukrainian relations; national assimilation; national identity; rebirth of Lemkos

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 243-250

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Bohdan Halczak

• Zielona Gory University

Identifiers

ISSN

2081-1128