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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
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Vladimir Pištalo

Vladimir Pištalo

Vladimir Pištalo (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Пиштало) (born 1960 in Sarajevo) is a Serbian writer, most notably winning the 2008 NIN Prize for the year's best novel - Tesla, Portrait among Masks.

Vladimir Pištalo graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and earned his doctorate at the University of New Hampshire under the theme of the identity of numerous Serbian immigrants. He now works at Becker College in Brewster, Massachusetts where he teaches World and US history.

He published the following prose books:

Slikovnica (1981)
Noći (1986)
Manifesti (1986)
Kraj veka (1990)
A Novel: Corto Maltese (1987)

Short story books:

Vitraž u sećanju (1994)
Priče iz celog sveta (1997)
A biography of Alexander the Great (1999)

Novels:

Milenijum u Beogradu (2000)
O čudu (2002)
Tesla, portret medju maskama (Tesla, Portrait among Masks) (2008)
Venecija (Venice) (2011)

The French language translation of his novel Milenijum u Beogradu was a choice for the prestigious award Femina for the best translated novel in French.

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Zeljko Djukic, who, in 2001, co-founded the TUTA Theatre Chicago as Artistic Director, will now assume the role of Founding Director. He has elected TUTA Ensemble Member Jacqueline Stone to assume the role of Artistic Director starting September 1.

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Serbian Americans: History—Culture—Press

SERBIAN AMERICANS: History—Culture—Press

by Krinka Vidaković-Petrov, translated from Serbian by Milina Jovanović

Learned, lucid, and deeply perceptive, SERBIAN AMERICANS is an immensely rewarding and readable book, which will give historians invaluable new insights, and general readers exciting new ways to approach the history of Serbian printed media. Serbian immigration to the U.S. started dates from the first few decades of 19th c. The first papers were published in San Francisco starting in 1893. During the years of the most intense politicization of the Serbian American community, the Serbian printed media developed quickly with a growing number of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications. Newspapers were published in Serbian print shops, while the development of printing presses was a precondition for the growth of publishing in general. Among them were various kinds of books: classical Serbian literature, folksong collections, political pamphlets, works of the earliest Serbian American writers in America (poetry, prose and plays), first translations from English to Serbian, books about Serb immigrants, dictionaries, textbooks, primers, etc.

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