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 2008

SERB WORLD USA March/April 2008 Vol. XXIV, no. 4

  • “Kosovo Plain: The Balkan Crossroads” by Dr. Vojislav Radovanovic (1925), translated by Serb World U.S.A.
  • “The Diverse Land of Kosovo-Metohija” a map drawn by Philip D. Hart
  • “1925: More about Kosovo”
  • “Mary Budimirovich Korach: One of the ‘Greatest Generation’”
  • “Letters to Jovan” Jovan Radovich’s letters from Kameno, Herceg Novi, in 1895
  • “Of Interest” a regular feature of 2 to 5 pages of short items about events, facts, awards
  • Recipe: “‘Kifle,’ Classic Serbian Pastry”
  • “Milan Opacich Presents ‘The Legendary Steve Makarevich’”
  • “‘My Crna Gora,’ a poem” by Collin Janich
  • “The ‘Guslar’ and the ‘Vila’: A Tale from Old Serbia” by Martin D. Bassar, illustrations by B. Malczewski
  • “‘Coup d’Etat’ on the Eve of War: March 27, 1941” by Philip D. Hart
  • “Zivan Knezevich: a short biography”
  • “Repudiation of the Tripartite Pact by the Serbian People” by Colonel Zivan Knezevich

SERB WORLD USA January/February 2008 Vol. XXIV, no. 3

  • “The Danube: War, Commerce, and Regulation” by Philip D. Hart
  • “The Danube River and the Danube States” a map drawn by Philip D. Hart
  • “Milo J. Radulovich: ‘Glory to him... he, indeed, had reason to be born.’—Njegoss” by George J. Vuckovich
  • “Cveta Popovich and His Postcard Collection”
  • “Postcards from Cveta Popovich: The 1912 Sokol Festival in Prague” from the Cveta and Milosh Popovich Collection
  • “1929: Serbians, Noted for Their Valor, Make Good Indianapolis Citizens” by Grace Blaisdell Holden, “Indianapolis Sunday Star,” November 29, 1929
  • “Of Interest” a regular feature of 2 to 5 pages of short items about events, facts, awards
  • “Mary Nicklanovich (1919-2007): recipes and much more”
  • Recipe: “Apple Strudel”
  • “From Glusac’s ‘The Music of Yugoslavia’— ‘Ej, salasi’” a song from the collection of Peter Glusac, translation by Serb World U.S.A.
  • “Milan Opacich Presents ‘Tamburitza Jammin’ in Tonawanda’”
  • “Serbs ‘Tops’ Down Under” by Holly Sakrison Clark
  • “From Cetinje to San Diego: The Long Journey of Father B. Draskovic” by Marsha Jovanovic
  • “More About the Sajkas Battalion: Its Officers and Their Service”
  • “South Slav Officers: a list from the Sajkas Battalion (1763-1872)” from a document published by S. Gavrilovic, trans. from German by G. Kosich

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Téa Obreht

Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Serbia), and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading. Her first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, has been published by Random House on March 8 2011. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in Ithaca, New York.

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Publishing

Prayer Book

The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America is pleased to announce the publication of a beautiful pocket-size, full-color, English-language Prayer Book, which has been compiled and designed by our newly enthroned His Grace, Bishop Maxim, and printed in Serbia. The book contains prayers commonly used by Orthodox Christians, lists of Scriptural Commandments, and brief articles on the precepts of Faith, proper conduct in church, and the meaning and practice of prayer. It is adorned with striking icons and illustrations by Fr. Stamatis Skliris, a parish priest in Athens who is renowned as an iconographer and as a writer and lecturer on Byzantine iconography. Full-color on coated stock throughout, 36 pages, 3¾" × 5½" format, paperback, saddle-stitched.

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