Slovak Studies Program

Slovak program	Current information	Slovak studies topics	Queries on history

Martin Votruba

Short story, pre-immigrant experience

Timrava, Božena Slančíková. “That Alluring Land.”
In: Norma L. Rudinsky, ed. That Alluring Land. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. 95-129.

Short story, 2nd generation experience

Kovacovic, Milan. "Ma's Dictionary."
In: C. J. Hribal, ed. The Boundaries of Twilight: Czecho-Slovak Writing from the New World. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers Press, 1991. 98-107.

Books in English

Q: What books about Slovak immigration can I read?

• Zecker, Robert. Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People. New York, NY: Continuum, 2011.
• Alexander, June Granatir. Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
• Alexander, June Granatir. Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism: Slovaks and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2004.
• Alexander, June Granatir. The Immigrant Church and Community: Pittsburgh's Slovak Catholics and Lutherans, 1880-1915. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987.
• Alzo, Lisa A. Three Slovak Women. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2002.
• Alzo, Lisa A. Slovak Pittsburgh. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2006.
• Bell, Thomas. Out of this Furnace. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (many editions).
• Čulen, Konštantín. History of Slovaks in America. Saint Paul, MN: Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International, 2007.
• Stolarik, M. Mark. The Slovak Americans. New York, NY: Chelsea House, 1988.
  

votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu