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, the Late Roland Belay 1955 - 2020, was 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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  1. 1 2 Ferenc, Mitja; Zupan, Gojko (2012). Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. p. 104.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ing. Albert Belay – Gottscheer Ehrenringträger" (PDF). Gottscheer Gedenkstätte. 52 (2): 14. April 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Gross, Daniel A. (July 14, 2015). "An Attempt to Keep the Dying Gottschee Culture Very Much Alive". Smithsonian. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 Petschauer, Erich (1984). "Das Jahrhundertbuch": Gottschee and Its People Through the Centuries. New York: Gottscheer Relief Association. pp. 152–156.
  5. ↑ "116. Frühlingskonzert der Gottscheer Chöre" (PDF). Gottscheer Gedenkstätte. 53 (3): 7. June 2016. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ 60th German-American Steuben Parade: Official Line-Up Book (PDF). New York: German-American Committee of Greater New York. 2017. p. 19. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ Belay, Albert (1993). Hoimischai Khöscht = Heimische Kost: Küchenrezepte aus Gottschee. New York: Author.
  8. ↑ Leustik, Hermann. "Audio-visuelle Medien über Gottschee". Gottscheer Medien Digital. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  9. ↑ Grieco, Sue (August 9, 2017). "Keeping Alive a Heritage Nearly Destroyed by War". LI Herald. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
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