Program
Jun 25, 2014 6:30 PM
THE CASE OF CZECHS: Emigration in New York 1874-1966

THE CASE OF CZECHS: Emigration in New York 1874-1966 and the iconic New Yorské listy, the longest-lived Czech newspaper in New York.
A talk by David Chroust
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University,
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
“The zenith for America's Czech community-over half a million migrants and
their children-was a century ago. The living city neighborhoods and country
enclaves are long gone. What remains are buildings and a continent of texts.
Common genres were newspapers, anniversary pamphlets and advertisements.
Migration scholars have already learned much about the Europeans who came and
remade America a century ago. How much can they really learn from the small
Czech migration in the past? How much of Czech America can become part of a new
past and new national self-understandings in the Czech Republic?
Venue:
321 East 73rd Street
NY 10021
New York
United States
Date
Jun 25, 2014 6:30 PM
Organizer:
Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences NY