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

Announcement and call for financial support to the Youth Philharmonic Naissus

After winning two Gold medals in Prague and Bratislava and IV places in Vienna, Youth Philharmonic Naissus, for the first time in the history of Serbia, invited to participate at the world competition of Youth Orchestras in Los Angeles, from 14th, to 18th, June 2015.

During this period, it will have a competitive performance in the most prestigious concert hall in the world WALT DISNEY Hall, as well as evening concert in the Disney park in LA. Also, members of the orchestra attendees one-day Masterclass with obtaining a certificate, which will lead to superior Conductor, educator Lawrence Sutherland.

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Olga Gradojevich

December 19, 1937 - August 30, 2022
Olga Radosavljevich-Gradojevich, 84 of Bratenahl/Seven Hills passed away in Seven Hills, Ohio on August 30, 2022. Olga (affectionately known as Miss Olga) was born in Belgrade, Serbia on December 19, 1937, to Nadezda and Vojislav Radosavljevich (Both Deceased) She immigrated to the United States of America at age 18 and enrolled at The Cleveland Institute of Music where she completed her Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and an Artist Diploma in piano performance with renowned teachers Arthur Loesser, Victor Babin and Vitya Vronsky Babin.

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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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