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FOLKLORICA 2025, Vol. XXIX 

FOLKLORICA 

Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 

2025, Vol. XXIX 

Contents 

Articles 

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

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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 and Stsiapan Zakharkevich 

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

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Reports 

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

Reviews 

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Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in 
Form, Nationalist in Content  
Amy Bryzgel 

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

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The Stark Carpathians 
Patrice M. Dabrowski 

Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’ 
David L. Cooper 

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