Carpatho-Rusyn Easter Customs
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2020
- In this engaging and informative video, the Carpatho-Rusyn Society takes us through the history and culture of the Carpatho-Rusyn Easter (Veligden) celebration. The Carpatho-Rusyns are a stateless people who live in the Carpathian Mountain border regions of eastern Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia) southern Poland, Transcarpathian region (Zakarpatska oblast / Zakarpattia) of Ukraine, northern Romania and northern Hungary with large immigrant populations in Serbia, Croatia and the United States.
Under the Austro-Hungarian Empire they lived in western Galician and northeastern Hungary. Calling themselves Rusyns or Rusnaks, the Rusyns have been referred to by others as Ruthenians, Carpatho-Russians, Lemkos and Uhro-Rusyns.
Carpatho-Rusyn Easter (Greek Catholic/Byzantine and Orthodox) traditions are influenced by their pre - Christian pagan beliefs and practices, many of which show up in the decorations and choices of their Easter foods. This is seen in the designs on their Easter bread (Paska), Easter eggs (Pysanky) and egg cheese (Hrudka). We see the varying styles of Easter eggs (pysanky) and how they differ. And, surprisingly, we learn how they even play a role in Carpatho-Rusyn courtship.
Please visit the Carpatho-Rusyn Society's website: www.C-RS.org for more information.
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My Didi was born in Brody. He came to Providence, Rhode Island in 1907 . He was a founding member of St. John’s Church . I remember him visiting every Easter with hard boiled eggs and proclaiming: “He has risen!”. He lived to be 94. I loved him.
My paternal grandparents were Rusyns. Not knowing them or growing up in their community I did not know much of what I learned from you. Thank you John.
Fascinating! My grandfather was from Jakubany Slovakia and my grandmother from Leszczawa Dolna Poland.
My grandfather was Carpatho Rusyn from Mezo Laborcz. Thank you for the information, I will never look at a spider in the same way again!
I'm a 2nd gen Rus with my grandfather coming from Mezolaborcz also! Do you know much about your family heritage? I know very little so I'm grateful for videos like this.
@@AngiBlehi it is spelled Medzilaborce correctly
I always wondered why my dad liked horseradish and beets!
Thank You John! Nice to learn about my past! I am a 3rd generation Hungarian / Ruysn!
Wonderful and very informative video. Thanks John!
So much my apo told me but more! Maybe why I love spiders. 😊 My family did very basic pysanki with a pinhead and put in a whittled piece of wood,but very beautiful patterns. Love this teaching and hope you'll make more.
Thank you, John. Your talk brought back fond memories of my childhood, because it was only at Easter that we experienced some of the Rusyn culture. Otherwise, since it was only my grandfather who was Rusyn and even though I bear the name (Havrilla), my siblings and I were absorbed into just an "American" culture and are now part of the Latin tradition of the Catholic Church.
What a wonderful presentation!!
Thank you so much for sharing! I am a second-generation Slovakian/Rusyn and I love learning about my heritage!
Extremely Interesting. Though I m not of this ethnicity. I always wondered this stuff. It's hard, though, to remember it, after the video is over with.
Thank you , John. This was a most informative video of the Carpatho-Rusyn customs and culture. I am saving it to send to my relatives.
This was great, I have to send it around to my relatives.
Great work! Loved this!
Thanks John! Excellent and informative presentation.
Thank You John!!!!
Love this video. Mr Righetti is a great presenter. Thanks . Dorothy
Hello John, as usual and not unexpected at all, an excellent job...well done.
I'm so proud of you !!!
That was a wonderful & informative video. I remember all the traditions that my family had at Easter. This was a great video to watch as I am about to prepare my Easter basket this year. My closest family members are now gone but I’m here to help preserve the traditions that I grew up with. Thanks again.
Good job John -- Ambridge here !!
Excellent presentation that brought back memories. My mother's teardrop psyanky were beautiful. Lucky me, I also know the art of decorative eggs.
I live in a part of Burgerland with a sizeable Rusyn population. I'm a Protestant Christian from a church with a very strong ethnic identity (British Isles) and I'm fascinated by other ethno-religious communities.
Just another example of the crazy things humans believe and worship. Well done. We're all raised to believe the crazy. And most continue. Спасибо.
You seem like very nice people!
Very engaging content
Hello Brynne, I also am a Sekerak, my ancestral village is Blazhov. Sound familiar?
@@elizabethdiles96 Hi! Mine in Bajerovce, in Slovakia. What country is yours in?
Bajerovce are near Blazov :)
@@maryannsivak6337 That's awesome! Were there many Sekerak's in Blazhov?
Great Video, I had always wondered why we had all those pussy willows every year. My great grandparents were from Uzhorod (Ungvar). and Hutta, Ung County.
My Rusyn family lived in Pittsburg, 1916 (glasport) last name Lanyi. So cool. I have a spider tattoo!!!
See the movie " Deer Hunter" at the beginning. Your ppl
@@alexpaul6054 tha is. I hope they were paid well. The Lanyi brothers from the town now named Dohve (Dolha), specifically came to Pittsburgh for that work. They lived in Glassport. Times were hard. I thank them for their tenacity and commitment. They arrive in 1919 @ Ellis island. I bought a brick with their names and date.
My plan is to visit Dohve, Zacarpathia. I finally located the town. It was a short elation, as the town is in Ukraine. SW and no bombing, but still😩 the town has such an old history and so many governments have named it their own. Putin can drop dead anytime now BTW
Random thing: anybody know where this pronunciation of kielbasa comes from? It’s how my family and I have always said it but I’ve never heard anyone else say it that way
I believe John's family is from a Rusyn village in Slovakia. Obviously the pronunciation changes from place to place. He may have also been influenced growing up in western Pennsylvania.
Carpatho-Rusyn Society Ah, that makes sense. My Grandfather is from western PA.
Горіла сосна палала, під ній дівчина стояла під ній дівчина стояла😉
Why did some random phone number text me this...
Rusyn its ancient name of ukrainians. Rusyns came to Transcarpathia from all the west Ukraine.
Why don't you try reading a history book that was not printed in Ukraine.
@@maryanns2868 Here you go. A book printed in New York in 1917. Read it, if you can read ukrainian.
diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/16912/file.pdf
Ukrainian groups writing about the Ukraine don't count. They are not objective.
@@maryanns2868 Author calls citizens of Ukraine a rusyns. Such books its a live testimony that rusyns its ancient name of ukrainians. I have a lot of such proves. And how many do you have?
Rusyns are the descendants of the White Croats that migrated north into trans-Carpathia 1200-1500 years ago. They are an ethnically distinct but stateless stateless eastern slavic group with a codified unique language. They are recognized as a unique and distinct group by every country on earth except Ukraine. Interesting how Ukrainians so strongly object to being called little Russians, yet are so stubbornly ignorant on this. There are many peoples that one time called a place called Kievan Rus' home. Ukrainians are but one of them, and current day Ukraine is but a small fraction of that territory.