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The changes in the structure of ethnic culture in a Texas community, Texas Czech-Moravian is outlined with emphasis on the determinant role of language. Relics of the language and the culture of the Texas Czech-Moravian are sure to survive, though a distinct community that defines a collective identity by the language, culture and ethnicity is difficult to identify.

One can speak of the religion of a nation only secondarily, since religious faith originates and exists, or may be extinguished, within the individual. Yet no discussion of predominately Catholic [...]

Ervin Goj or, as known in the literary world, Ondra Lyshorsky, created a literary language in which he and other writers wrote. The language is based on traditional Lachian dialects of the Czech Republic and in some parts of Poland and its use became controversial. The issues raised included linguistic methodology, ethnolinguistic issues, the use of the term Lachian, which was considered to be of Polish origin and not Czech, and the political correctness of its use.

The Czech and Moravians in Texas comprise one of the many ethnic communities in the US. Their settlements were almost self-sufficient and culturally self-contained, but this trend was reversed after the Second World War when full-scale assimilation began and resulted in a new definition of ethnic identity among the immigrants. Czech became the official ethnic title of the immigrants regardless of their ethnic origin. Most of the immigrants settled in rural areas and took up farming. The switch to English as the dominant language contributed in the preservation of Czech and Moravian dialects which differ from the standard Czech language., Though they have defined their identity in different ways, the Czechs and Moravians of Texas comprise a single ethnic community which up until the end of the Second World War [...]

Edited by Stanislaw Stepien. Studia z dziejow Greckokatolickiej Diecezji Przemyskiej, vol. 3. Przemysl: Poludniowo-Wschodni Instytut Naukowy, 1996. 336 pages. ISSN 0867-1060. Paper. Edited by Stanislaw Stepien. Studia z dziejow Greckokatolickiej [...]

Belaruskija narodnyja kryzhi [Belarusan national crosses], by Michas' Ramanjuk. Vilnius: Nasha Niva, 2000. Illustrations, Index. 221 pages. Hardcover. Price: 116 litas. In Belarusan. Michas' Ramanjuk (1944-1997) was a prolific ethnologist [...]

In the last paragraph of my article, 'Polish Catholicism: A Historical Outline' (SR, XXIV:1, p. 1015), a typographical error changed the plural into the singular. A sentence in the last [...]