Evolution of Our Ethnic Community in New York City

The new community of immigrants, despite the hardship of starting a new existence in a challenging environment, brought along from the old country an intense patriotic cultural zeal. The local press reported that Bohemians were cigar makers during the day but actors at night.

Second Half of the 19th century

The Bohemian National Hall and the Sokol Hall

Turn of the 20th Century

KENNETH D. MILLER AND THE JAN HUS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

WORLD WAR I AND OUR NEW YORK COMMUNITY

LOVAK COMMUNITY IN NEW YORK

POST WORLD War I DISPERSION

WORLD WAR II AND AFTER

REBIRTH OF THE BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL

 

by Vlado Simko, M.D., Ph.D.
Published in KOSMAS, Czechoslovak and Central European Journal 2012, Volume 25, p. 103 – 114.