Amerikanski Srbobran (Pittsburg, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1906-Current

• 1906–1963
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

12,140 issues from 1906 to 1963, published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.

First published on January 18, 1906, Amerikanski Srbobran (American Srbobran) is the oldest continuously published Serbian language newspaper in the world. It has been in print without interruption longer than Politika from Belgrade, which was on hiatus during the two world wars. Initially, Srbobran published only in Serbian in Cyrillic, but in 1930, it began to issue an English-language section to reach the second generation of Serbian Americans who were more fluent in English. Since 1906, the publishing frequency varied from weekly to daily to tri-weekly, with either Serbian-only issues, combined Serbian and English issues, or separate Serbian and English issues published on separate dates. In 2024, Srbobran continues the practice of publishing two distinct language sections and publishes issues twice per month.

Amerikanski Srbobran is the official newspaper of the Serb National Federation, a Serbian fraternal benevolent and cultural society established in 1901 in Pittsburgh, PA. The founders of the organization sought to maintain Serbian cultural traditions, preserve the Orthodox faith in the United States, unite the Serbian American community, as well as create an insurance fund for their members, with their newspaper standing as one of the signature achievements to support these goals. On the front page of the inaugural issue, Father Sava Vojvodić, a prominent Serbian priest in the United States, described the mission of the newspaper: “Our newspaper will guide our…

Genres

News

Published in

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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

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