Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus'

<P>In the midst of a contentious atmosphere of the interwar period the far-eastern province of Subcarpathian Rus’ attracted the personal curiosity and professional attention of Russian ethnographer and theoretician Petr Bogatyrev and Czech journalist-writer Ivan Olbracht. Both traveled extensively in the region and immersed themselves deeply in the life and culture of the local residents Carpatho-Rusyns and Hasidic Jews. <I>Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht</I> explores for the first time in English the legacy they bequeathed in their respective work: Bogatyrev as an apolitical ethnographic collector and theoretician and Olbracht as a passionately committed Communist whose reports and brilliant stories from the region including <I>Nikola Šuhaj Brigand</I> and <I>The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karadjic</I> capture a glimpse of a world destined to change radically as a result of the ravages of war.</P>