Albert Belay

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Albert T. Belay (born May 24, 1925) is a Gottschee German cultural activist in New York City. [1]

Belay was born in Livold (German : Lienfeld), Slovenia. [1] [2] He left the Gottschee region as a teenager, becoming a displaced person in Austria after the Second World War, [3] and then emigrated to the United States in 1951, where he worked as a civil engineer. [2] [4] He married a fellow Gottschee refugee, Therese Erker, in 1953. [2] Belay served as the president of the 1960 Gottscheer Volksfest in New York [4] and headed the cultural committee of the Gottscheer Relief Association for many years. [4] He is also the chairman of the Gottschee German Men's Choir in New York. [2] [5] [6]

Belay authored the cookbook Hoimischai Khöscht (Home-Style Fare), containing 155 traditional Gottschee German recipes, [2] [7] and narrated the five-part CD series Eine Reise durch Gottschee 1936 (A Journey through Gottschee, 1936). [8] His son Roland Belay is a member of the board of Gottscheer Central Holding, which runs Gottscheer Hall in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, New York City. [9]

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