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Czech Americans --- Czechs --- Ethnology
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"The personal account of a young woman's journey toward religious and political freedom in post-Holocaust, communist Czechoslovakia. The author recalls her experience as a child of Holocaust survivors, the testimony and influence of her childhood art tutor, Ludovit Feld, life as a refugee in Rome, and finally becoming an American citizen"--
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As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains...And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.'My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows. Jim Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda, whose family settle in N
Women immigrants --- Farmers' spouses --- Czech Americans --- Women pioneers --- Married women --- Farm life --- Nebraska
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""This book stands among the best works in the genre, and it should attract the attention of those interested in narrative scholarship, agriculture, and theories of place.""Tyler Nickl, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Czech Americans --- Family farms --- Farms --- Farms, Small --- Private plot agriculture --- Czechs --- Ethnology --- History. --- Funda, Evelyn I.
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Czech Americans --- Women pioneers --- Women immigrants --- Married women --- Farmers' spouses --- Farm life --- Nebraska
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Women immigrants --- Farmers' spouses --- Czech Americans --- Women pioneers --- Married women --- Friendship --- Farm life --- Nebraska
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Young Harriet's father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian-and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, Harriet's story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original. When she escapes the strange mound-building obsession of her Pawnee captor, Harriet sets off on a trek to find her father, only to meet with ever-stranger characters and situations along the way. She befriends a Jewish prairie peddler, escapes with a chanteuse, is imprisoned in a stockade and rescued by a Civil War balloonist, an
Fathers and daughters --- Czech Americans --- Women pioneers --- Resilience (Personality trait) --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Human resilience --- Resiliency (Personality trait) --- Personality --- Nebraska
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Authors, Czech --- Czech Americans --- Ecrivains tchèques --- Américains d'origine tchèque --- Correspondence. --- Social life and customs --- Correspondance --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Hrabal, Bohumil, --- Gifford, April --- Correspondence --- Journeys --- Tchécoslovaquie --- Czechoslovakia --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politics and government
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