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Serbian Americans
Српски Американци
Srpski Amerikanci

American Serbs
Амерички Срби
Američki Srbi
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    Serbian Americans

    Serb ancestry. However, the number may be significantly higher, as there were some 290,000 additional people who identified as Yugoslavs[b] living in the United States.[3]

    The group includes Serbian Americans living in the United States for one or several generations, dual Serbian–American citizens, or any other Serbian Americans who consider themselves to be affiliated with both cultures or countries.

    History

    Greek Orthodox parish with Greek immigrants in New Orleans, further solidifying their presence in the region.[5]

    Serbian Americans fought in the

    Pensacola
    .

    Other Serbs settled in

    Juneau. In 1943, many Serbian-American miners were killed in the Smith Mine disaster in Montana.[9]

    First meeting of the NACA in 1915 (Mihajlo Pupin seated first from right)

    The number of Serbs who immigrated to the United States is difficult to determine as Serb immigrants were often variously classified by their country of origin, thus as Turks, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Dalmatians, Bosnians, Herzegovinians and Austro-Hungarians.[3] In the 1910 census, there were 16,676 Serbs from Austria-Hungary, 4,321 from Serbia, and 3,724 from Montenegro.[10]

    Serbian-Americans volunteered in the

    Red Cross
    , formed a Serbian Relief Committee, and urged notable Americans to support the Serbian cause.

    Distinguished Serbian American scientist Mihajlo Pupin, a friend of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, led the Serbian National Defence (SND), a Serbian-American organization which collected money and attempted to influence American public opinion with regard to the Balkans.[12] During World War I, Pupin's Consulate in New York served as a center of Serbian-American diplomacy and volunteering of Serbian Americans to the Serbian front.[13] In the 1912–18 period, thousands of Serbian-American volunteers came from Alaska and California.[14]

    After World War II many Serbs immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia after the country came under the authoritarian rule of Communist leader Josip Broz Tito.[15] Since then, many Serbian American cultural and religious organizations have been formed in the United States. A number of Serbian American engineers worked on the Apollo program.[16][17][18]

    With the

    disintegration of Yugoslavia, Serbs in the United States have established several interest groups, the most organized of which is the Serbian Unity Congress (SUC).[19]

    Alaska

    Alaskan Serbs
    Аљаски Срби
    Aljaski Srbi
    Serbian American, Montenegrin Americans, Serbian Canadians

    California Gold Rush
    .

    The primary areas of Serbian and Montenegrin settlement were

    Fairbanks, and Sitka. Many Serbs settled in the Canadian Yukon during the gold rush as well, such as legendary prospector Black Mike Vojnić
    .

    The St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Juneau, which was built by Serbs and Tlingit natives.

    In 1893, Serbian miners in Alaska built the

    Douglas.[23]

    St. Sava Church (also spelled "Savva") was a church of the

    consecrated
    the Church of St. Sava in Douglas. However, the sparse records that remain of this church indicate that by the 1920s it may have been sitting empty, and in 1937 a fire swept through Douglas, destroying most of the town, including St. Sava Church. It was not rebuilt.

    Serbs also made up a large number of the miners at the

    U.S. Marshal and neutral townsmen had to calm the group in order for the funeral procession to continue.[24] In 1910, there was a massive explosion on the 1,100 foot level of the Mexican mine at Treadwell. 39 men were killed, 17 of whom were Serbian.[25]

    During the World War I, many Serbian Americans volunteered to fight overseas, with thousands coming from Alaska.[14]

    In 1930s and 40s Fairbanks, Yugoslav immigrants, mainly Serbs and Montenegrins, owned a great number of businesses and bars in the city. In between the world wars, many Serbian Alaskan men returned to Yugoslavia to find brides and bring them back to Alaska to start families.[26]

    Today there is a vibrant Serbian community, particularly in

    Juneau, but Serbs can be found across the state.[27]

    Recently, it has become commonplace for Serbian workers to come to Alaska annually to work for a few months in canneries, where food and accommodation is provided. These workers stay on temporary work visas, and speak English.[28]

    Publications

    Serbian Americans have historically published and continue to publish a number of newspapers in both the Serbian and English languages. The oldest Serbian American newspaper currently in publication is the Pittsburgh-based bilingual American Srbobran, which has been in circulation since 1906.[29]

    Notable Serbian newspapers published in the United States[29]

    Population

    Serbian language in the U.S.

    Demographics

    Number of declared Americans of "Serbian ancestry"
    Year Number
    1980[30]
    100,941
    1990[31]
    116,975
    2000[32]
    140,337
    2010[33]
    187,739

    A total of 187,738 citizens of the United States declared Serb ethnicity in 2010 (while the 2012 American Community Survey has an estimate of 199,080). It is highly likely that among the citizens who declared Yugoslavian ethnicity (328,547 in 2010; 310,682 in 2012 estimation) are additional ethnic Serbs.[3]

    Major centers of Serbian settlement in the United States include Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Milwaukee (12,000[34]), Pittsburgh, Phoenix, and Jackson, California.[3]

    Various ethnic organizations put the number of Serbian Americans at more than 350,000.[3]

    Serbian-born population

    Serbian-born population in the U.S. since 2010:[35]

    Year Number
    2010 30,715
    2011 Increase30,758
    2012 Increase35,765
    2013 Increase36,160
    2014 Decrease33,628
    2015 Increase36,969
    2016 Increase37,654
    2017 Increase38,203

    Notable people

    For a more comprehensive list, see List of Serbian Americans.

    Notable Serbian Americans among others include recipients of the

    Mele "Mel" Vojvodich, and Milo Radulovich are other notable veterans. George Fisher was a 19th-century Serb settler who played an important role in the Texan Revolution.[8]

    Embassy of Serbia, Washington, D.C.

    Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore after her in 2006. Mike Stepovich was the last appointed governor of the Territory of Alaska
    in the 1950s. Many notable Serbian Americans have been active in the fields of film and art, such as
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Catherine Oxenberg is an actress who is a daughter of Princess Jelisaveta Karađorđević, from Karađorđević Dynasty. Darko Tresnjak is a theatre and opera director born in Zemun, who won four Tony Awards in 2014.[37]

    Nikola Tesla Corner in New York City

    Dejan Stojanovic are notable poets. Gerald Petievich is a writer of crime novels (turned into movies) and Walt Bogdanich (1950) is an investigative journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting in 1985, the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2005 and the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2008. Bogdanich led the team that won the 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for their story "Toxic pipeline". Branko Mikasinovich is a scholar of literature as well as a noted Slavist and journalist. He has appeared as a panelist on Yugoslav press on ABC's "Press International" in Chicago and PBS's "International Dateline" in New Orleans. Alex N. Dragnich is the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award for distinguished service to Vanderbilt University
    , and he is author of numerous books on Serbian/Yugoslav history.

    Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin are world-known scientists. Another accomplished Serbian-American scientist, Miodrag Radulovački, was named the 2010 Inventor of the Year at the University of Illinois[38] for producing a dozen potential therapies for sleep apnea. Hall of fame basketball player, Pete Maravich (1947–1988) is listed among the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Sasha Knezev: is a Serbian American filmmaker known for American Addict, American Addict 2, Fragments of Daniela and Welcome to San Pedro.[39]

    Predrag Radosavljević is a renowned former Serbian-American soccer player and famous for scoring a goal against Brazil, the then-no. 1 team, to help the United States defeat Brazil for the first time with a 1–0 win in 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[40]

    In Alaska

    In popular culture

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ The community is commonly referred to as Serbian Americans in English, and more rarely as Serb Americans. In Serbian, the community is known as [the] American Serbs (амерички Срби / američki Srbi), and more rarely as Serbs in America (Срби у Америци / Srbi u Americi).
    2. ethnic groups who inhabited Yugoslavia: Bosniaks, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes
      . The Serbs were the most numerous of the groups.

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