American Srbobran
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American Srbobran were the first Serbian newspapers in USA. They began to come out 18 January 1906 in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) where it is published once a week.[1]
American Srbobran[edit]
The Serbian Orthodox Federation "Srbobran" was founded 5 June 1901 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the predecesor of the Serb National Federation. Their thoughts were of sickness, unemployment, and other misfortunes that could befall on people when the country becomes a victim of climactic change, economic depression, or any type of natural or unnatural catastrophy. Work in nearby steel mills and coal mines often took its tool resulting in death, disabling injury to a relative or neighbour. Fellow immigrants still willing to do the dangerous work, sometime found themselves fired from a job suddenly, and without just cause.
The founders of the society were Adam Maravić, Sava Hajdin, Mile Kasar, Petar Hajdin and Simo Lapčević, they made the alliance modelling it after the Russian Orthodox Union. In 1906, they started the newspaper "American Srbobran", which was an organ of that alliance. The first editor of the paper was Milivoj Buzadžić. The first issue of the magazine also included a program text written by a priest from Pittsburgh, Sava Vojvodić, which reflects the tasks of the alliance: teaching about Serbian nationality, Serbian Orthodox faith and preventing denationalization. During World War I, an infantry lieutenant colonel Milan Pribićević was sent to the United States as a delegate to the Serbian royal government to recruit volunteers for the war. His work was somewhat hampered at the beginning when he arrived by the disunity of Serb and the so-called non-ethnic "Yugoslav" emigrants. However, the Serbs united by merging the Serbian Orthodox Federation "Srbobran", the 'Federation of United Serbs "Sloga", as well as two others, the First Serbian Benevolent Federation of Chicago, and the First Montenegrin Federation of Chicago[2]. Srbobran was led by scientist Paja Radosavljević, and Sloga by scientist Mihajlo Pupin.
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