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Egy élet a moldvai csángó magyarok szolgálatában
Domokos Pál Péter születésének 120. évfordulója tiszteletére
- Issue: 2021/3
- Starting page: 3
- Author: Domokos Mária
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A life dedicated to the service of the Moldavian Csángó Hungarians. Domokos Pál Péter 1901–1992 was a Hungarian Székely gentleman from Várdotfalva (today part of Csíkszereda/Miercurea Ciuc, Transylvania). He was a Széchenyi-award winning Hungarian teacher, historian, ethnographer who researched the history and culture of the Hungarian Csángó people of Moldavia. His first trip to Moldavia to visit the Csángó people was in 1928, when inspired by Bartók’s book „A magyar népdal”, he went to collect traditional songs from the Csángó Hungarians there, as an area Bartók been unable to visit. Thus began his life-long mission making sure that the Moldavian Csángó Hungarians would be neither forgotten, nor neglected by Hungary nor completely assimilated by the Romanians. Following Domokos, Jagamas János, Veress Sándor, Balla Péter, Lükő Gábor and Kallós Zoltán did important ethnographic collection work in the region. The Csángó Moldavian ethnic group has constantly been under threat of assimilation practices by from the Romanian government and the Orthodox church. This interview was done in 1985 for a Radio Free Europe program and is published here by Domokos Mária.