The Society Farsharotu published a series of Newsletters from 1987-2018 on topics of interest to our members and readers. Those Newsletters are all stored and can be searched on this section of our website.
1987-1995
Greetings to All of Our Members
We hope that this first issue of our Newsletter finds you and your loved ones well and prosperous. We want to let you know that …
Ethnic Values & Ethnic Identity
America as a pluralist society fosters ethnicity, and Americans often maintain their ethnic identity for the sole purpose of group identity. How we live, both …
Our Diaspora in Transition: Some Views on Culture, Language, and Change
I have lived in the Vlach villages of Greece for each of the past 12 summers, a testimony to my love for our culture and …
Volume 1, Issue 1 Articles
Volume 1, Issue 2 Articles
Resurrecting Aromanian Culture
Whom are we kidding when we speak of preserving Aromanian culture for posterity? There are two ways to preserve a culture for the future: alive, in …
Memory, Meaning, and the Creative Renewal of Culture
In this article I would like to explore two subjects that are recurring themes to me personally and to our community in general. The first …
How I Became Interested in My Ethnic Background
First, some family back-ground: My mother’s maiden name was Mariana McCombs. The fourth of six children, she was of mixed British and Germanic background. My …
The Survival of Vlach in Anilio
Of all the Vlach villages I have visited in the Balkans my favorite is Anilio, situated just south of Metsovo, the main Vlach town of …
Putting the Record Straight: An Interview with Tom Winnifrith
Following are excerpts from an interview conducted with Dr. Tom Winnifrith on April 15, 1990, during his tour to study Vlach communities in Australia and …
The Evil Eye
The mothers of Baieasa, like all the women of Epirus, had the difficult task of raising the children without the benefit of doctors — and …
Articles from Volume 4, Issue 2
“Instant Modernization” in America
A prime concern of modern historians and social scientists has been the huge change in the qualities of human life between what are called “traditional” …
Touring the Vlach Villages of Greece
Seventy-eight years after the publication of Wace & Thompson’s Nomads of the Balkans, the Vlachs and their villages have suddenly inspired cultural interest and academic inquiry. …
Election Week in Albania 1992
In March of this year I spent a week in Albania. The experience was so overpowering that I started writing this account the day after …
Articles from Volume 6, Issue 1
Articles from Volume 6, Issue 2
The Vlachs in Albania A Travel Memoir and Oral History
My father left Albania in 1916, but even fifty years later he enjoyed telling me how difficult his journey to the United States had been. …
A Report on the Aromani in Romania
AUTHOR’S PREFACE This study was conducted over 18 months ago and the following report submitted to the Society Farsarotul General Assembly in November 1992. Very …
The Vlachs in Bosnia
Editor’s Note: The turmoil in the Balkan Peninsula in recent years has led some of the world’s sharpest minds to focus on the history of …
Articles from Volume 7, Issues 1 & 2
Articles from Volume 8, Issue 2 / Volume 9, Issue 1
1996-2003
Articles from Volume 11, Issue 2 & Volume 12, Issue 1
Articles from Volume 12, Issue 2 & Volume 13, Issues 1 & 2
Community News
We are pleased to welcome the following new members: Alexander Tudor Westport, CT Susan Perkins Stark Los Angeles, CA Marina Todeasa Monroe, CT Cara Bernard …
The Vlah Minority in Macedonia: Language, Identity, Dialectology, and Standardization
The research for this article was aided by a grant for East European Studies from the American Council of Learned Societies with funding from the …
Articles from Volume 14, Issues 1 & 2
Articles from Volume 15, Issues 1 & 2
Articles from Volume 16, Issues 1 & 2
2004-2012
Past Presidents at the Centennial Celebration
Past Presidents of the Society being honored at our Centennial: from left, Bill Balamaci, Nick Fatse, Dina Vanghele, Bob Nicola, Andrea Colimitra, George Fatsy, & …
Vlachs
*This article was first published in Mediterranean Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 4, and is reprinted here by kind permission of the author and Duke University …
Vlach Women and Modernization: A Footnote to Progress
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a paper that was written almost 20 years ago in graduate school and neither intended for publication nor …
Articles from Volume 17, Issues 1 & 2
Articles from Volume 18, Issues 1 & 2
Articles from Volume 19 & 20, Issues 1 & 2
Creating a Virtual Museum and Cultural Center: kythera-family.net
www.kythera-family.net Imagine if a huge museum and cultural centre for the Aromanians were to be built, with room for thousands of heritage documents from Vlachs living …
The Poetry of Traditional Languages
The Neapolitan linguist-historian Giambattista Vico said in 1744 in his New Science, “We find that the principle of [the] origins both of languages and of letters …
Panhellenic Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs: Letter of Information to the Council of Europe
PANHELLENIC FEDERATION OF CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF VLACHS FOUNDED IN 1985 http://www.vlachs-popsv.gr/ e-mail: panhellenicfeder.vlachon@gmail.com Larisa 16 November 2009 Ref. No.:44 LETTER OF INFORMATION TO THE …
Articles from Volume 21 & 22, Issues 1 & 2
2013-2018
Community News
Just as we were going to press, we learned that Aromanian tennis prodigy Simona Halep, ranked number 19 in the world, who recently won the …
Aromanian Traditional Music: An Introduction
Aromanian traditional music is just my music! When I was a kid, the first songs I heard from my parents, were exactly Aromanian traditional songs! …