Vol. 16, No. 3, September 1978 - "Ethnic Experience in Pennsylvania"
SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ETHNICITY
(pp. 1 - 4)
William B. Kory
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Abstract
The following list of selected materials is, by no means, all inclusive. Many important works have been omitted due to space and time limitations. The editors would appreciate hearing from anyone regarding additional sources on American ethnicity.
A STUDY PLAN FOR A MINI COURSE IN AMERICAN ETHNIC HERITAGE
(pp. 5 - 6)
Jonathan Flint
Pennsylvania Ethnic Heritage Center
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Abstract
Our purpose was to design an interdisciplinary course where several different cultures could be studied. The concentration in the following mini-resource unit is on American Ethnic Heritage and Ethnic Literature.
THE ROLE OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HISTORY OF THE TAMBURA IN AMERICA
(pp. 7 - 16)
Walter W. Kolar
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Abstract
The greatest majority of the Yugoslav immigrants who moved to the shores of the New World and into Pennsylvania at the turn of the century were of the "unlettered" classes, uneducated in either the academic or the artistic fields. Most had never gone to school at all, or had simply attended the first few grades. Apparently, their prime purpose for coming to the United States was not so much motivated by the idea of settling here for the remainder of their days, but rather for the express purpose of accumulating a large sum of money in a hurry. They could then return to their homeland and live "in style." In true Horatio Alger fashion, they came to seek their fortune. Needless to say, more often than not, the fortune was not to be had. The streets of America were not lined with money as so many of them had been told it would be, and the immigrants found themselves hard at work in foundries and mines, barely able to make a living for themselves.
(pp. 16 - 21)
Andrew J. Sopko; Ph.D. Candidate in Byzantine History
University of London
London, England
Abstract
The aesthetic charm of many European cities has not traveled well across the Atlantic. When immigrants came to America, the memory of places like "Prague the Golden city of a hundred spires," "Eternal Rome," home of the great Christian basilicas, and "holy Moscow," dotted with its sixteen hundred churches, remained in their minds. To them, the landscape of America's cities must have seemed as alien as the language. In their homelands, the many churches which lent the principal Architectural variety to the landscape were here replaced by an ever increasing tide of high-rise buildings and tenements with which not even the highest spire or cupola could compete. Strangers in a land, it was difficult for them to make their mark.
(pp. 21 - 30)
William B. Kory; Associate Professor of Geography - Social Sciences
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Abstract
The churches in America provide an excellent opportunity for geographers and other social scientists to study and analyze the ethnic composition of population in various parts of the country. In fact, the spatial distribution of churches reflects the area's early population clustering, and shows where the various ethnic groups settled as they migrated to a particular region.