Lemkos and Orthodoxy

One of the especially fascinating groups of Eastern Christians, who seem to fall between so many larger imperial and nationalist projects and configurations, is the Lemkos, newly treated in a book by Stefan Dudra, Lemko Identity and the Orthodox Church (Carpathian Institute, 2018), 150pp.

The publisher gives us this brief blurb:

The Lemko Region of the Carpathian Mountains of Central Europe has been inhabited by East Slavic people for centuries. For nearly as long, it has been the arena of intense ethnopolitical competition. This collection of sketches illuminates how Lemkos’ reaction to competing nationalist pressures led them to an identity centered on Eastern Orthodox Christianity.