At the recent convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Boston, Mass., it was noted that 2024 was a banner year for new books on Carpatho-Rusyn topics published in the English language. These include:
- Treading Paths: Lemko Literature in the Years 1848-1918, by Helena Duć-Fajfer [purchase | preview]
- Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht, by Patricia A. Krafcik [purchase | preview]
- From Nowhere to Somewhere: The Carpatho-Rusyn Movement. A Personal History, by Paul R. Magocsi [purchase | read online]
While these are all worthy of the time and attention of anyone interested in Carpatho-Rusyn topics, in my biased outlook I have two books I’d like to highlight here due to their relevance to Carpatho-Rusyns in Pennsylvania.
My first selection is by Lemko Rusyn-American specialist in Lemko history, Bogdan Horbal:
From Thatched-Roof Houses to Immigrant Entrepreneurship: First Generation Lemko-American Businessmen (Higganum, CT: Carpathian Institute, 2024)
From the book notes:
