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New Book on Czech Literature

[from Britske listy, Glasgow, UK] : Sussex Academic Press has just published this new book titled Writers Under Siege. …read more

Bohemian National Cemetery Received the AMEX Grant

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SVU Member Jiri Stejskal Becomes President of ATA

Jiri Stejskal

ALEXANDRIA, VA — The American Translators Association (ATA) announced that Jiri Stejskal will take over as president for a two-year term. The ATA is the nation’s largest professional organization for translators and interpreters with over 10,400 members from 80 countries.

Jiri Stejskal is the founder and president of CETRA, Inc., a language services provider based in the Philadelphia area. Stejskal earned both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, an Executive MBA degree at Temple University, and has more than 20 years of experience as a translator. He has also taught undergraduate and graduate language courses at the University of Pennsylvania since 1990.

GENEALOGY | by Mila Rechcigl, Jr.

1. Guides and Tools

a. Czechoslovak Genealogy Sites on the Internet
b. Cemeteries

2. Family Trees

a. US Presidents or their Wives with Czech Roots

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Progress in 2008 SVU Congress Preparation

Representatives of the Catholic University (Dr. Dalibor Mikulas and Ing. Pavol Budaj) and the City of Ružomberok (Dr. Jan Pavlik) came to the United States to prepare logistics of the upcoming 24th World Congress.

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