We invite you for the book promotion of “Łemkowszczyzna. Time of war and peace” and a meeting with its author, Stanisław Kryciński. The talk will be hosted by Łukasz Połomski.
After the meeting the books will be available at discounted price. We meet on Thursday, January 18th at 18:00 in the House of History.

The event inaugurates the “Shtetl Cheder” series, in which all year we will promote selected books about topics related to our activities. Come, join us!

The book is the second part of the story about Łemkowszczyzna, continuation of the book published two years ago “Łemkowszczyzna on both sides of Carpathians”. It includes a hundred years of history of Lemkos living on the northern slopes of Carpathian mountains and their neighbours, Rusnaks, living on the southern side of the mountains. The book describes the period from the 1830s to the summer of 1939. The birth of the Lemko identity and literature as well as activities during the Great War in the region of Beskid Niski and repressions that the Lemkos had to endure in the Thalerhof internment camp were described here. Next chapters describe war cemeteries, such a characteristic view for this land, turning back to eastern church, activists and literary men of the pre-war period, creation of the Apostolic Administration of Łemkowszczyzna and in the end the life of Lemko village in the pre-war years and Lemko craftsmanship, especially stone masonry.

Stanisław Kryciński – (born 1954) chemical engineer by education , historian and regionalist by passion, fascinated with south-eastern Poland, tirelessly describing its charms for decades with pen and lens. Author of many books incl.: Wooden eastern churches in Karpathians (1979), San river land, pt.1, Czarna gmina (1986), Przemyśl Highland, (1992, 2014), Bieszczady. Historic and touristic dictionary. pt. 1 – Lutowiska gmina (1995) and pt. 2 – Cisna gmina (1996 and 2007), Przemyśl and Przemyśl Highland (1997, 2007), Eastern Churches in Bieszczady (1995 i 2005), Pre-war Jewish architecture. Most beautiful photographs (2014). Libra PL published so far:Bieszczady.
Where eyes will lead (2013), Bieszczady. Where there’s devils, Hutsuls, Ukrainians (2013), Bieszczady. From Komańcza to Wołosate (2014) and Łemkowszczyzna on the both sides of Carpathians (2016). He’s working on more publications on Przemyśl Highlands and another about Łemkowszczyzna.

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