Voice of Canadian Serbs
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The Voice of Canadian Serbs is a Serbian emigrant newspaper in Canada, published in Serbian Cyrillic under the title of Глас канадских Срба.[1]
History[edit]
The first issue, entitled "Voice of Canada", was published on 27 December 1934 in Toronto in a circulation of 15,000 copies. The motto is still today - "Spread love and harmony. With the people - for the people". Among the printed media in the Serbian language that are still published in the country and the world, only Politika and American Srbobran are older than Glas.
Until November 1945, Glas was published and edited by Božidar M. Marković, and his right hand man was his wife Milica. In Ottawa in 1942, the head of the Canadian Censorship War said to Marković: "Your paper is the best rated national paper of all foreign-language newspapers published in Canada."
In January 1944, the newspaper changed its name to the Voice of Canadian Serbs, and in November 1945, the Voice became the official gazette of the Serbian National Defense. For five decades (1934-1983), including the years during the Second World War, it was published weekly, then for more than a quarter of a century monthly, and since 2012 for two months. Aid packages sent by Canadian Serbs to their homelands and prisoner-of-war camps during and after World War II often contained a copy of Glas. One of the most prominent Serbian editors of Glas was Radoje Knežević and among the most distinguished contributors were Adam Pribićević, Nenad Petrović, Jovan Dučić, Viktor Novak, Branko Bokun, Karl Novak, Ruth Mitchell.
Out of a total of nine editors, the one who performed this duty for the longest time - two decades - was Bora Dragašević while his wife Draga edited the English section for more than 22 years, which is still published today. Dragasević, one of the most prominent Canadian Serbs, described his life and a kind of chronicle of emigration in his memoirs "In the Footsteps of Ancestors" - an extensive book in Serbian in 750 pages. Prominent Canadian writer who wrote in French, Negovan Rajić, winner of several Canadian awards, read the Voice of Canadian Serbs for the first time in a camp in Italy in 1947.
"We were lepers in Europe and thirsty for free speech. For one newspaper, we fought like a thirsty hermit for a glass of water", wrote Rajić.
Associates of the Voice of Canadian Serbs were also Miloš Crnjanski, Isidora Sekulić, Rastko Petrović, Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović, Ambassador Konstantin Fotić and many other Serbian intellectuals from Canada, the USA, Serbia and other parts of the world.
In his record of the last conversation with Slobodan Jovanović, Desimir Tošić[2][3] states that the article on the (then) new French constitution, announced on Paris Radio, was also intended by Jovanović for the Christmas issue of Glas. For eight decades, the Voice of Canadian Serbs has been a chronicle of Serbian immigrants in Canada, their cultural and wider social gatherings, guardians of Serbian tradition and history, letters and languages, and ties between emigrants and the homeland. The paper has been part of Canada's national archives for decades. Copies of Glas from 1934 to 2006 were preserved on microfilm and donated to the Library, the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, the Library of the University of Toronto and the Serbian Heritage Museum in Windsor on behalf of the Serbian National Defense Council.
On the occasion of the centenary of the liberation of Serbs (and other minorities) from Austro-Hungarian yoke in Serbia, the microfilm of Glas was also donated to the National Library of Serbia. The Voice (Glas) was preserved in digital format until 2013.
References[edit]
- Translated from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0
- ↑ Глас канадских Срба чита се пуних 85 година („РТС”, 31. децембар 2019)
- ↑ "East Ethnia: In memory of Desimir Tošić". Eastethnia.blogspot.com. 9 February 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
- ↑ "BBCSerbian.com | News | Umro Desimir Tošić". BBC. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
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