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Home / Gift Shop / Books / Books in English / Lithuanian Fraternalism: 75 Years of U.S. Knights of Lithuania

Lithuanian Fraternalism: 75 Years of U.S. Knights of Lithuania

$9.95

  • Author: William Wolkovich-Valkavicius
  • Format: Paperback, 303 pages
  • Publisher: Knights of Lithuania, Brooklyn, NY; First Printing edition (1988)
  • ISBN: 87-83517

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SKU: 2507 Categories: Biography, Books in English, Gifts, Non-Fiction, Soviet Deportations, Soviet Era
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Contents:

  1. A Layman’s Initiative
  2. Religion, Ethnicity, and Interethnicity
  3. The Knights and World War I
  4. The Impact of Lithuania on the Knights
  5. The Homeland: Restoring and Rebuilding
  6. Organizational Growing Pains
  7. Challenges and Problems
  8. Assimilation: Foe or Friend?
  9. Setback of Adolescence: 1920-1940s
  10. Lithuanian: To Speak and Write or Not to Speak and Write?
  11. The Knights During World War II and Its Aftermath
  12. The Knights and Post- World War II Arrivals
  13. Finances, The Vytis, and Conventions
  14. Norkunas’ Final Years
  15. Cultural Goals and Dreams
  16. Lithuanians or Lithuanian-Americans?

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