Svět = World (Cleveland, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,814 issues from 1918 to 1924, published in Cleveland, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
Established in 1911 to serve Cleveland Czechs, one of the city’s oldest and largest ethnic groups, the Svět (“World”) was “an independent Bohemian daily newspaper.” Cleveland was the fourth largest Czech city in the world by 1919, following Prague Vienna and Chicago; it was also an important center of Czech progressivism and socialism. During this time, Czechs typically identified themselves with one of three groups-freethinkers, socialists, and religious-and Cleveland’s Czech-language newspapers reflected all three of these ideological divisions. The Svět, although nominally dedicated to the interests of Czech people in America (“Neodvislý český denník věnovaný zájmům českého lidu v Americe”), primarily represented freethinkers, or anticlerical agnostics. Socialist Czechs were served by the Americké Dělnické Listy (“American Workingmen’s News”) and Roman Catholics by the Američan.
The Svět was published by the Svět Printing and Publishing Co., and during the 1920s, managed by John A. Stukbauer and edited by Frank J. Kutak. In 1915, it absorbed the Dennice Novověku (“Star of the New Era”), which had originated as Cleveland’s first Czech newspaper, the politically and religiously liberal Pokrok (“Progress”). The Svět reported local, state, national, and international news, including extensive coverage of World War I and the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia. It did not shy away from politics, encouraging its readers to vote for or against certain candidates…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress