Slovak American Touches

Author : Toni Brendel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932043495
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Slovak American Touches written by Toni Brendel and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the life of Brendel's Slovak family, who settled in Price County, Wisconsin, around the turn of the century. In examining her grandmother's life, Brendel reflects a Slovak family history symbolic of many of the immigrants who came from Eastern Europe.

Author : Gregory Curtis Ference
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636595
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sixteen Months of Indecision written by Gregory Curtis Ference and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the war continued, emphasis changed to focus on assisting the Slovaks only. Collections of goods and money were taken, and a representative was sent to Canada to help gain the release of Slovaks imprisoned as enemy aliens. Citing the Canadian example, Slovak American leaders urged their compatriots to become American citizens. Last, the war caught the Slovaks in the United States by surprise. Their political program centered on gaining equal rights in Hungary through legal means, but a small group advocated instead a Czecho-Slovak solution. Although the Czecho-Slovak concept gained momentum, many Slovaks feared that they would lose their ethnic identity. Cooperation initially did not occur in the United States. When a Parisian organization of Czechs and Slovaks expressed its willingness to recognize the individuality of the Slovak people, the American Slovaks quickly supported it. An icy reception, however, by American Czechs destroyed any common ground.

Author : Konštantín Čulen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965193221
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book History of Slovaks in America written by Konštantín Čulen and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover book with Dusk jacket cover (front and back) depicting scenes of Slovak life in America. The dust jacket has not yet been designed.

Author : Michael Cude
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988666
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Slovak Question written by Michael Cude and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2022 SSA Best Book Prize The so-called Slovak question asked what place Slovaks held—or should have held—in the former state of Czechoslovakia. Formed in 1918 at the end of World War I from the remains of the Hungarian Empire, and reformed after ceasing to exist during World War II, the country would eventually split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the “Velvet Divorce” in 1993. In the meantime, the minority Slovaks often clashed with the majority Czechs over their role in the nation. The Slovak Question examines this debate from a transatlantic perspective. Explored through the relationship between Slovaks, Americans of Slovak heritage, and United States and Czechoslovakian policymakers, it shows how Slovak national activism in America helped the Slovaks establish a sense of independent identity and national political assertion after World War I. It also shows how Slovak American leaders influenced US policy by conceptualizing the United States and Slovakia as natural allies due to their connections through immigration. This process played a critical role in undermining attempts to establish a united Czechoslovakian identity and instead caused a divide between the two groups, which was exploited by Nazi Germany and then by other actors during the Cold War, and proved ultimately to be insurmountable.

Author : Francesca DiPiazza
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761346279
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Slovakia in Pictures written by Francesca DiPiazza and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Slovakias geography and history, along with an exploration of the political, economic, and cultural landscape of this country in Central Europe.

Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665543728
Total Pages : 1598 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Notable Czech and Slovak Americans written by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution to the development and culture of America by the immigrants from the territory of former Czechoslovakia, be they Czechs or Slovaks, or Bohemians, as they used to be called, has been enormous. Yet little has been written about the subject. This compendium is part of an effort to correct this glaring deficiency. In this compendium, the focus is on religion, law and jurisprudence, business and entrepreneurship and the notable people in the government, with the narration and assessment about the Czechoslovak American explorers, adventurers and pioneers who paved the way for the colonists and settlers who followed them. An important role among them played the social movement activists. some of whose ideas won the respect and ultimately acceptance by general population, to which subject an entire section has been devoted. Among other, you will find among them abolitionists, freethinkers. suffragists, civil & human rights activists, environmentalists and conservationists, climate change activists, philanthropists, inventors and even futurists or futurologists. Their innovative ideas, inevitably, led to the rise of the plethora of Czech and Slovak American leaders, encompassing, practically, every aspect of human endeavor. As stated in the Foreword, this reference will serve as a powerful research tool for many years to come for scholars and all Czechs and Slovaks on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : United States. Army. A.E.F., 1917-1919
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Official Athletic Almanac of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1919 written by United States. Army. A.E.F., 1917-1919 and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David E. Washburn
Publisher : Inquiry International
ISBN 13 : 9780822942061
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Peoples of Pennsylvania written by David E. Washburn and published by Inquiry International. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Bell
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978865
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Out of This Furnace written by Thomas Bell and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our all-time bestselling title, this classic and powerful novel spanning three generations of a Slovak immigrant family has been adopted for course use in more than 250 colleges and universities nationwide. Out of This Furnace, is Thomas Bell's most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family - the Dobrejcaks - still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment. The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering career of Djuro Kracha. It tracks his arrival from the old country as he walked from New York to White Haven, his later migration to the steel mills of Braddock, and his eventual downfall through foolish financial speculations and an extramarital affair. The second generation is represented by Kracha's daughter, Mary, who married Mike Dobrejcak, a steel worker. Their decent lives, made desperate by the inhuman working conditions of the mills, were held together by the warm bonds of their family life, and Mike's political idealism set an example for the children. Dobie Dobrejcak, the third generation, came of age in the 1920s determined not to be sacrificed to the mills. His involvement in the successful unionization of the steel industry climaxed a half-century struggle to establish economic justice for the workers. Out of This Furnace is a document of ethnic heritage and of a violent and cruel period in our history, but it is also a superb story. The writing is strong and forthright, and the novel builds constantly to its triumphantly human conclusion.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1418 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: