Joe, Lavrentiy had it right; Rusyn is the more general term historically , as in Rus'. Rus' included what is now Ukraine (Kiev), Belarus, eastern Slovakia, NE ...
... Lavrentiy, Don't you mean RUSNAK (no "i")? And how many of us is "many"? You and Nick Karas are the only such people I've ever met (among the American...
For at least 5-10 years now, 3 eparchies (Passaic, Parma, & Van Nuys) of the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in America (the Metropolia of Pittsburgh, that...
Hello Richard, ... The latter is very true. In the general community out there, i.e. among people who don't have computers and aren't on the Internet and ...
... this is only part true. Rus' also included much of european russia -- cf. Novgorod, Pskov, Riazan' and other european russian cities were big players in ...
Guys: I think you are on the correct track. The Internet and newsletters have created an awareness of the term Rusyn that is unfamiliar to most people who have...
... Nuys) of the ... the ... Richard, as one having relatives in two of these eparchies (I'm Orthodox), I find this most interesting - on one hand it would...
Nikolai, Or, maybe you and I are just lower class Hunkies. ;-) It seems that only those who have time to read newsletters, scholarly works, and surf the Net...
Jankodude, Yes, I was fascinated with the services in Saint Peter's Square. There sat the Pope and the Patriarch was given the opportunity to lead everyone in...
... then how do you explain things like duchnovyc's use of the word "rusyn" in popular poetry, almanacs/kalendary, primers, etc? and the use of the word ...
... BRIAN; THAT'S EASY. NONE OF THESE PEOPLE (RUSNAKS) WHO CAME TO AMERICA COULD NEITHER READ NOR WRITE THERE OWN LANGUAGE. MOST CAME FROM ISOLATED VILLAGES...
Jankodude, Much of the change in the last 10 years in the USA (note that Byzantine/Greek Catholics in most of the east European "homelands" cling tenaciously...
... i've only ever heard it pronoucned RUSS-in. lemkos can get away with RUSH-in i guess...grandma insists on pronouncing the soft 's' (rus'kyj = rushky, so ...
... what books are you reading that rusyns ever had ties to kyiv? and their ties to l'viv and hayc were tenuous at best. this statement of yours is typical of ...
I allways heard it Rue Sin.......like as if we were all religious M. _____ From: bpozun@... [mailto:bpozun@...] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:41 PM ...
I second Brian's question about education. Although there were obviously never enough schools and not enough using the vernacular, by 1806 there were more than...
... SURE THEY ARE CORRECT. NO DISPUTE HERE. By 1897 in ... RESPONSE HERE WOULD BE TOO LENGTHY. PLEASE SEE PAGES 247 TO 249 OF MY BOOK "HUNKY." ... OVER THE...
Ray, Since I already answered your private communication it seems you want to bring copyright to the public forum. You can consult lawyers and they will give...
RICHARD, THANKS FOR YOUR LEARNED RESPONSE! ... cling ... Syria, Lebanon, ... came about ... clause and ... was ... Orthodox ... perhaps Rome ... Catholic ... ...
... ok, but what language did this refer to? if it was asked in bremen or wherever the ship departed from, they were referring to german. if asked at ellis ...
Hello Brian, The US immigration inspectors wanted to know if the immigrant could read and/or understand any language (their native language, or any other ...
Hello Kikolai, What kind of e-mail composer do you use? The one that you are using is very poor (it's hard to dtermine when you are adding your comments and...
so how did they test knowledge of an uncodified language like rusyn, or roma for that matter? with someone who interpreted literary russian who therefore...
... ****** Hello Brian, Back then they didn't call our language Rusyn. The language was Old Slavonic. The inspectors had translators who had text in Old...
