Volume 40 of the Journal of Croatian Studies

The Croatian Academy of America issued volume 40 of its annual interdisciplinary review, the Journal of Croatian Studies.  The 162-page issue contains scholarly articles and reviews in English on a wide range of topics.

The issue includes contributions from scholars in Croatia and contains several papers presented at two 1999 symposiums held in Chicago and Toronto.

The opening piece, “Another Copy of the Dubrovnik Prayer Book” is a translation of an article by Anica Nazor, director of the Old Slavonic Institute in Zagreb, that appeared in the Zagreb daily Vjesnik.  It discusses the discovery of a third copy of the 1512 Dubrovnik Prayer Book (Ofičje svete dieve Marie) in Washington by Norman Cigar, a member of the Croatian Academy of America.  The second essay is a translation of Alojz Štoković’s “The 100th Anniversary of the Croatian Secondary School in Pazin, 1899-1999: A Striking Example of Croatian Solidarity.”

Several papers presented during the symposium “The Croatian Diaspora in the U.S.A. on the Eve of the Third Millennium,” hosted by the Association for Croatian Studies (ACS) at Saint Xavier University, Chicago, on 17 April 1999 are included.  ACS President Ante Čuvalo was not only the main organizer of this conference, but through his paper “Triangular Relations: The Croatian Diaspora, the United States and the Homeland,” provided an overall critical assessment of the challenges facing the Croatian diaspora in the 3rd millennium.  The remaining papers dealt with specific themes: Mira Radielovic Baratta (“The American Croats: How to be More Effective in Washington”); Tomislav Sunić (“Great Expectations and Small Returns: Immigration and Emigration of Croats over the Last Ten Years”); Michael Vezelich (“Surfing the Net for Croatian Language Courses in North America: A Status Report”); Ljubo Krasić (“Croatian Schools in America and Canada”); Luka Mišetić (“The Future of America’s Croatian Youth: The Need for the Modernization of the National Grassroots Infrastructure of the Croatian-American Community”); and Michael J. Colarusso (“The Challenges to Church-building in Pennsylvania’s Croatian Communities, 1894 to 1924”).

From the symposium “The Croatians in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” organized by the Toronto Chapter of the Croatian Academy of America on 4 December 1999 at the University of Toronto, two papers are included: Anita Mikulić-Kovačević’s “Croatian Cultural Life in Bosnia and Herzegovina During the Ottoman Era” and Ivo Šoljan’s “The Voices of Lament and Hope: Croatian Poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina (A Historical Sketch).”

Additional contributions include Karlo Mirth’s review essay “Reference Sources to Croatian Émigré Serials: Milan Blažeković’s Lexicon to Hrvatska revija.”  The reviewer also includes a discussion of the index to the periodical Studia Croatica and other Croatian diaspora publications.  Several book reviews are featured including: Ozren Žunec’s War and Society: Essays from the Sociology of the Military and War, Quintin Hoare and Noel Malcolm’s Books on Bosnia: A Critical Bibliography of Works Relating to Bosnia-Hercegovina Published Since 1990 in West European Languages, Smail Čekić’s The Aggression on Bosnia and Genocide Against Bosniacs 1991-1993 and Danielle S. Sremac’s War of Words: Washington Tackles the Yugoslav Conflict, all by Norman Cigar; Wolfgang Bierman and Martin Vedset’s UN Peacekeeping in Trouble: Lessons Learned from the Former Yugoslavia by Warren Switzer; Ivo Tasovac’s American Foreign Policy and Yugoslavia, 1939-1941 by Marko Attila Hoare; Rudi Tomić’s The View from the Toronto Tower of Events in the Homeland by Ljerka Susanna Lukić; and Croatian Studies Review: Journal and Bulletin of the Croatian Studies Centre by Stan Granic.

The issue also includes reports on the General Assembly, other activities and obituaries.

The Journal of Croatian Studies is the only English language scholarly periodical dedicated entirely to Croatian history and culture. 

The Croatian Academy of America was established in 1953 and has published the Journal of Croatian Studies since 1960.  Managing editors of the Journal are Karlo Mirth and Jerome Jareb.

Single issues of the Journal may be ordered at a price of US $20 for individuals and US $30 for institutions.

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                        The Croatian Academy of America, Inc.

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Articles appearing in the Journal are indexed by ABC-CLIO Historical Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography of the Modern Languages Association and Public Affairs Information Service.

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