Zajedničar

Zajedničar
Front page of a 1907 issue of Zajedničar
TypeNewspaper
Owner(s)Croatian Fraternal Union
Founder(s)Josip Marohnić
Founded1904
LanguageBilingual (English and Croatian)
HeadquartersPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
OCLC number2269819
Websitecfu.org/zajednicar/


Zajedničar (Fraternalist) is a newspaper of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America (CFU), a fraternal benefit society of the Croatian diaspora.[1][2]

The magazine was started in 1904, during the CFU's presidency of Josip Marohnić, its founder and the first president.[3]

Zajedničar is headquartered and printed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is published in dual-language format with the first section in English and the second section being a full Croatian translation. Since 2009, the newspaper is also distributed in PDF format. The paper is the only ongoing Croatian-language newspaper in the United States.

Another publication called Narodni Zajedničar (People's Fraternalist) was launched by Croatian communists within the CFU in 1939, but it was short-lived and no surviving copies are known to exist. It formed part of non-English press of the Communist Party USA.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Croatian Fraternal Union of America - Zajedničar". Croatianfraternalunion.org. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  2. ^ [1] Archived September 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ [2] Archived September 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Čizmić, Ivan. "Yugoslavians". In Hoerder, Dirk [in German]; Harzig, Christiane (eds.). The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s. Vol. 2. p. 421.
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