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Slovak Easter Customs in the United States |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: M. Mark Stolarik |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,091 Words, 12,637 Characters |
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On Holy Saturday of each year, one may observer the blessing of colorful Easter baskets in many Slovak churches across the Northeast and Midwest. This is one of the few Old World nonreligious customs that Slovak Americans still practice as a part of a religious holiday (the other being an elaborate Christmas Eve feast) after three or four generations of living in the New World.
Slovaks are a small ethnic group (approximately five million live in today's Czechoslovakia), with over a million residing in the United States. Linguistically they belong to the West Slavs of Europe (the other West Slavs being the Poles, Czechs, and Lusatian Sorbs), although culturally they are closer to the non-Slavic Magyars or Hungarians, with whom they shared the Kingdom of Hungary from the eleventh cent...
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...urvival of Slovak customs in America has become problematic. Not only is the heart of the Slovak community - the parish - slowly disappearing, but its people are dispersing. Coupled with this dispersal is rapid assimilation into "mainstream" American culture. Only fragments of Slovak-American culture still survive, and one can observe some of them on Holy Saturday in Eastern Slovak parishes.
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