A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

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.
- Woodrow Wilson

Jazz Under The Stars

Please join Lifeline New York (Patron: HRH Crown Princess Katherine) for a special evening on Friday, July 24th at 6:30PM for a performance of Jazz Under The Stars with award winning Jazz vocalist and Vogue IT girl, Sofija Knezevic.

Also, Special Guest of Honor to-be-announced.

Thank you for your support and generosity.

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People Directory

Nemanja Bjelica

Nemanja Bjelica (rođen 9. maja 1988. u Beogradu) je srpski košarkaš. Trenutno nastupa za Minesotu timbervulvse, a takođe je i standardan član košarkaške reprezentacije Srbije.

Primarna pozicija mu je krilo ali može da igra i po potrebi na pozicijama plejmejkera i krilnog centra. Godine 2009. bio je izabran za najboljeg sportistu Sportskog društva Crvene zvezde. Draftovan je 2010. godine u drugoj rundi NBA drafta. Proglašen je za najkorisnijeg igrača Evrolige 2015. godine, a ujedno je bio i član najbolje petorke ovog takmičenja.

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Publishing

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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