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

Available Back Issues 2004

SERB WORLD U.S.A. November/December 2004 vol. XXI, no. 2

  • "Bosnian Valleys: by road and rail to Travnik and Livno in 1897" by Heinrich Renner (1897), translated from German by George Kosich
  • "Valleys in Western Bosnia" a map drawn by Philip D. Hart
  • "A Story about My Grandfather, Nicola Desich, from Travnik, Bosnia" by Zora (nee Stojsavljevic) Zuzuly (1996)
  • "More on Bosnian Valleys"
  • "In Search of a Name" by Mitchell Soso
  • "Milan Opacich Presents: The Rotkvich and Ratkovich Orchestras" a regular music feature by Milan Opacich
  • Of Interest: notes, books, events, news
  • Recipe: "Serbian Christmas Bread - Cesnica"
  • "From Glusac’s 'The Music of Yugoslavia'—Tiha Noci" a song from the collection of Peter Glusac, translation by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "Finding Marko Sipka" from Dragan Zivkovic, his wife Julie (nee Sipka), and son Nick
  • "Serbs in Colorado: Mines and Industry in the Gilded Age"
  • "1914: Serbs in Colorado" list transcribed from Cyrillic and alphabetized by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "Over the Mountains: The 1958 Escape of the Obilic Mountaineers" by Philip D. Hart
  • "Song for the Gusle - Uz Gusle" an epic about coming to America by Milan Tarbuk (1912), translation by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "About Surnames and Serbs" by Trifun Pavlovic (1997), Zaduzzbina V.S. Karadzica, trans. by Serb World USA

SERB WORLD U.S.A. September/October 2004 vol. XXI, no. 1

  • "Jajce: The Royal City" by Heinrich Renner (1897), translated from German by George Kosich
  • "Minnesota, Iron Ore, and Serbs"
  • "1914: Serbs of Minnesota’s Iron Range" a list transcribed from Cyrillic and alphabetized by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "Milan Opacich presents: The Balkan Strings of Canada" a regular music feature by Milan Opacich
  • "Of Interest" a regular feature of 2 to 5 pages of short items about events, facts, awards...
  • Recipe: "Dalmatian-Style Oxtail Pasta Sauce"
  • "Christmas Gift Ideas 2004"
  • "Three Rings" a Serbian folk tale from the Vuk Karadzic collection, trans. by SWusa, illustration by B. Malczewski
  • "From Glusac’s 'The Music of Yugoslavia'—Mladi Kapetane" a song from the collection of Peter Glusac, translation by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "Joe and Mary Grubich and New Richmond, Wisconsin" by Mary Nicklanovich Hart
  • "An American Memoir" by Joe Grubich
  • "The Englishwoman: Adeline Paulina Irby (1831-1911) - Part 2" by Mary Nicklanovich Hart
  • "Map of the Western Balkans, c. 1875, showing Miss Irby’s work" drawn by Philip D. Hart

SERB WORLD U.S.A. July/August 2004 vol. XX, no. 6

  • "Romanija and Glasinac: Bosnia’s Hajduks and Pre-Historic Man" by Heinrich Renner (1897), translated from German by George Kosich
  • "The Romanija Mountains and the Glasinac Plateau" a map drawn by Philip D. Hart
  • "More about Romanija and Glasinac"
  • "Starina Novak and Knez Bogosav" a hajduk song from the Vuk Karadzic collection, translation by SWusa
  • "Utah’s Bingham Canyon: Mountains, Mines, and Immigrants" by Mary Nicklanovich Hart
  • "1914: Serbs in Bingham Canyon and Other Utah Towns" list transcribed from Cyrillic and alphabetized by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "Of Interest" a regular feature of 2 to 5 pages of short items about events, facts, awards...
  • Recipe: "Poppy Seed Cake"
  • "Milan Opacich Presents: More Minnesota Musicians" a regular music feature by Milan Opacich
  • "Decani: A World Treasure"
  • "From Glusac’s 'The Music of Yugoslavia'—Biser Jadrana" a song from the collection of Peter Glusac, translation by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "The Death of Bishop Petar I Petrovic-Njegoss" by George J. Vuckovich
  • "The Last Will and Testament of Bishop Petar I Petrovic-Njegos" original English translation by George J. Vuckovich
  • "Vuk and Goethe" by Hermann Wendel (1924), translated from German by George Kosich
  • "The Englishwoman: Adeline Paulina Irby (1831-1911) - Part 1" by Mary Nicklanovich Hart
  • "Travels of the Englishwomen" a map drawn by Philip D. Hart

SERB WORLD U.S.A. May/June 2004 vol. XX, no. 5

  • "Idyllic Journey: The Mountains and Forests of Eastern Bosnia" by Heinrich Renner (1897), translated from German by George Kosich
  • "Eastern Bosnia" a map drawn by Philip D. Hart
  • "Bosnia’s Gypsies and More"
  • "Milan Opacich Awarded National Heritage Fellowship" by Mary Nicklanovich Hart
  • "A Cat for a Coin" a folk tale about honest service and true worth from the Vuk Karadzic collection, trans. by SWusa, illustration by B. Malczewski
  • "From 'The Music of Yugoslavia': Govori se da me varas" a song from the collection of Peter Glusac, translation by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "Milan Opacich Presents Tambura’s Golden Era" a regular music feature by Milan Opacich
  • "The First Serbian Benevolent Society’s Honor Roll of World War II"from the Jugoslav American Herald (1949), the Petar J. Lucich Collection
  • "Of Interest" a regular feature of 2 to 5 pages of short items about events, facts, awards...
  • Recipe: "Djuvec, a Balkan Vegetable Medley"
  • "Kosovo Revisited: Three Days in March" by George J. Vuckovich from Camp Monteith, Kosovo
  • "Draga Cutlich Obradovich" by George Obradovich, excerpted from his “A Small Collection of Poems Written by Your Baka”
  • "My Schooling and the Village Pandur" a story by Draga Cutlich Obradovich
  • "Betrayal of Trust" a story by Draga Cutlich Obradovich
  • "Poems: A May Night/Majska Noc and My Village/Selo Mome" by Draga Cutlich Obradovich
  • "A Butte Centennial"
  • "1914: Serbs in Butte and the West " list transcribed from Cyrillic and alphabetized by Serb World U.S.A.

SERB WORLD U.S.A. March/April 2004 vol. XX, no. 4

  • "The Tisa River: Flood Control & Man’s Battle with the Elements" by Michael Dekany & Koloman Tors (1890), translated by George Kosich
  • "The Tisa: a map with political boundaries from 1890 & modern canals" drawn by Philip D. Hart
  • "Canals, Waterways, and Vojvodina: More about the Tisa"
  • "Milan Opacich Presents The Continentals of Cleveland, Ohio" a regular music feature by Milan Opacich
  • "Peter Glusac and the 'Music of Yugoslavia'"
  • "Crven Fesic - A Red Fez" a song from the collection of Peter Glusac, translation by Serb World U.S.A.
  • "Of Interest" a regular feature of 2 to 5 pages of short items about events, facts, awards...
  • Recipe: "Montenegrin Cheesecake - Sirnica"
  • "My Baba" a poem dedicated to Ange Vukanovich (1896-1990) by Sara Soso-Rapp
  • "The Girl Who Was Faster than a Steed" a folk tale from the Vuk Karadzic collection, trans. by SWusa, illustration by B. Malczewski
  • "Montenegrin Flagbearers as Heroes in Stories" by Cedo Bacovic with tales from Micun Pavicevic and Stojan Cerovic
  • "Art from Nature: Natural History Artist Don Radovich" by Philip D. Hart
  • "Jennie Jerome-Churchill and King Milan Obrenovic" by Milan M. Radovich
  • "Dearest Jovanka & Dear Sophie: letters from the 1930’s" from Jovanka Radakovich, Belgrade, and Sophie Ignotov, Flint
  • "Two Years Longer than the Ottoman Empire" by George J. Vuckovich from Camp Monteith, Kosovo
  • "A Glimpse of Milwaukee’s Early Serbs" by Luka M. Pejovic (1939), translated by Serb World U.S.A.

SERB WORLD U.S.A. January/February 2004 vol. XX, no. 3

  • "Life on the Tisa: Travels on the River in 1891" by Maurus Jokai (1891), translated from German by George Kosich
  • "The Tisa River Region in 1891" a map drawn by Philip D. Hart
  • "Folk Songs of the Tisa "
  • "More about the Lands of the Tisa "
  • "Milan Opacich Presents 'Minnesota Musicians'" a regular music feature by Milan Opacich
  • "Of Interest" a regular feature of 2 to 5 pages of short items about events, facts, awards...
  • Recipe: "Grandma’s Chicken Soup"
  • "Kosovo Revisited" by George J. Vuckovich from Camp Monteith
  • "Growing up in Bosnia in the 1930’s" by Robert P. Gakovich
  • "Joseph II of Austria: Reform & Reaction among the South Slavs" by Philip D. Hart
  • "Shrine of 'Apricots'" by Milla Zenovich Logan, a short story

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John Dapcevich

John Evan Dapcevich (born September 26, 1926) is a retired state official in Alaska.

Dapcevich was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1926 to Sam and Stana Dapcevich, immigrants from Montenegro, where his father worked in coal mines. The family moved to Juneau, Alaska in 1928 living with a Serbian community, with John entering school years later. He moved to Sitka, Alaska in 1960 where he served six terms as Mayor during a span of 20 years. During his time in office, Dapcevich successfully unified the city of Sitka city with various borough governments. Upon his retirement in 1995, he moved back to Juneau.

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0

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