Streetcar parishes
Subtitle: Slovak immigrants build their nonlocal communities, 1890-1945
By: Robert M. Zecker.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Selinsgrove
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781575911359
Subjects: Slovak Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Slovak Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Slovak Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Ethnic identity; Immigrants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century; Immigrants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century; Community life -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History; Social networks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slovaks at home : the case for a translocal community in Upper Hungary; title: Port of arrival : Philadelphia; title: Neighborhoods : Slovak partial communities; title: Slovak churches : building blocks of community; title: "I guess we just dealt with the Slovaks" : fraternal clubs and Slovak American identity.