Albert Belay Explained
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]
Bibliography
- Albert Belay. 1993. Hoimischai Khöscht = Heimische Kost: Küchenrezepte aus Gottschee. New York: Author.
- Albert Belay, narrator. 2015. Eine Reise durch Gottschee 1936 (five-part CD set).
Notes and References
- Book: Ferenc. Mitja. Zupan. Gojko. Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). 2012. Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. Ljubljana. 104.
- Ing. Albert Belay – Gottscheer Ehrenringträger. Gottscheer Gedenkstätte. April 2015. 52. 2. 14. February 11, 2018.
- Gross. Daniel A.. An Attempt to Keep the Dying Gottschee Culture Very Much Alive. Smithsonian. July 14, 2015. February 11, 2018.
- Book: Petschauer. Erich. "Das Jahrhundertbuch": Gottschee and Its People Through the Centuries. 1984. Gottscheer Relief Association. New York. 152–156.
- 116. Frühlingskonzert der Gottscheer Chöre. Gottscheer Gedenkstätte. June 2016. 53. 3. 7. February 11, 2018.
- Book: 60th German-American Steuben Parade: Official Line-Up Book. 2017. German-American Committee of Greater New York. New York. 19. February 11, 2018.
- Book: Belay. Albert. Hoimischai Khöscht = Heimische Kost: Küchenrezepte aus Gottschee. 1993. Author. New York.
- Web site: Leustik. Hermann. Audio-visuelle Medien über Gottschee. Gottscheer Medien Digital. February 11, 2018.
- News: Grieco. Sue. Keeping Alive a Heritage Nearly Destroyed by War. February 11, 2018. LI Herald. August 9, 2017.