Now Available: Folklorica, Volume 29 (2025)

Folklorica is a publication of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA). The journal publishes articles, surveys, reviews, notices of conferences or expeditions, and announcements from scholars in any field relevant to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian folklore, including anthropology, ethnic studies, history, literature, and musicology. Folklorica is issued annually and is an open access journal.

The latest issue (Volume 29, 2025) of the journal has been released and features the following articles, reports, and reviews:

Articles

“Songs and Laughter Were Heard”: Frontline Songs and Poems in the Folklore of The Great Patriotic War
Enes Tastan

Lithuania’s Kryžių kalnas [The Hill of Crosses]: Investigating the Layered Histories, Meanings, and Tensions that Chronicle a Nation’s Life
Ema Noëlla Kibirkstis

“I Signed the House over to a Cat”: Humor of the Belarusian 2020–2021 Protests
Anastasiya Fiadotava, Stsiapan Zakharkevich

Habsburg Empire to the Americas: Transculturalism in a Song About Sisi’s Assassination
Andriy Nahachewsky, Olga Zaitseva-Herz

Reports

Isidor Levin and Tajik Folklore Studies: A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Forgotten Folklorist
Ravshan Rahmoni

Reviews

Ķencis, Toms, Simon J. Bronner, Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, eds. Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, Nationalist in Content
Amy Bryzgel

Wanner, Catherine. Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby

Amato, Anthony J. The Stark Carpathians: Ritual, Text, and Authority among Ukraine’s Hutsuls
Patrice M. Dabrowski

Krafcik, Patricia A. Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht
David L. Cooper

Omarbekova, Gulnara and Erik Aasland. Contemporary Kazakh Proverb Research: Digital, Cognitive, Literary, and Ecological Approaches
Elka Petrova Petrova