Ilona Juhasz, L.

* Rozsnyó, March 18, 1960 – / ethnologist ; ; He completed his primary and secondary school studies in his hometown, graduating in 1979. In 1981 he took the vocational school leaving exam in folk culture in Bratislava. In 2004 he obtained a diploma in ethnography from the University of Debrecen, then a PhD degree there. In 1981–1985 he was the head of the factory club of the Cellulose and Paper Mill of Gömörhorka, in 1985–1986 he was an employee of the Pelsőc library, in 1986–1990 of the Csemadok Rozsnyói JB, in 1990–1994 of the Museum of National Heritage in Érsekújvár, and in 1994–1997 of the Danube Riverside Museum in Komárom. Since 1997, she has been a colleague of the Ethnological Center of the Minority Research Institute of the Forum in Komárom, with her husband, József Liszka (Köbölkút). In 1991–1998, she was the secretary of the Slovak Hungarian Ethnographic Society and the editor of the Hírharang ethnographic information booklets. She has published her Slovak Hungarian ethnographic bibliographies in seven volumes since 1995. Her scientific interests focus primarily on the problems of burial customs and cemetery culture, as well as national symbols. Her studies have been published in Slovak and Hungarian journals and conference volumes. She also writes popular articles on ethnographic topics. Awards and honors: István Győrffy Award (2011), János Arany Award (2013), Jelsimervény – the award of the Hungarian Semiotic Society (2014). She currently lives in Keszegfalva. ; ; Main works: ; Rudna I. Burial customs and changes in cemetery culture in the 20th century, 2002, ; Driven into a tree, driven into the ground… Headstones/memorial columns as tools of symbolic space-occupation among Slovak Hungarians, 2005, ; Our sacred monuments (with József Liszka), 2006, ; Your names on this marble slab… Signs of war. Additions to the ethnological evaluation of World War II memorials, 2010, ; Rites, signs, symbols, 2011, ; At the thirty-four stone… Signs of death and places of death along the roads, 2013.