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Greek Americans

Author : Peter C. Moskos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351516701
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Greek Americans written by Peter C. Moskos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. Blending sociological insight with historical detail, Peter C. and Charles C. Moskos trace the Greek-American experience from the wave of mass immigration in the early 1900s to today. This is the story of immigrants, most of whom worked hard to secure middle-class status. It is also the story of their children and grandchildren, many of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of America's most successful ethnic groups.As the authors rightly note, the true measure of Greek-Americans is the immigrants themselves who came to America without knowing the language and without education. They raised solid families in the new country and shouldered responsibilities for those in the old. They laid the basis for an enduring Greek-American community.Included in this completely revised edition is an introduction by Michael Dukakis and chapters relating to the early struggles of Greeks in America, the Greek Orthodox Church, success in America, and the survival and expansion of Greek identity despite intermarriage. This work will be of value to scholars of ethnic studies, those interested in Greek culture and communities, and sociologists and historians.

A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America

Author : Marilyn Rouvelas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America written by Marilyn Rouvelas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music, what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.

The Life of a Greek American

Author : John Antonakos
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728309972
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Life of a Greek American written by John Antonakos and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography is more about the people who have surrounded me than about myself. With this biography, I intend to show all the following: How my environment affected me as a Greek American; the interplay I had with my parents who had come from Greece; my parents’ faith and how it influenced me; the difficulties Greek immigrants had and how they overcame them; the strong belief a Greek immigrant had for education and how it impelled him to drive his children to get a good education; the way immigrants entertained themselves with home celebrations, dances, and picnics; and the relationship Greek Americans had with one another. In summary, the purpose of this biography is to show how Greek culture was established within American culture and was impressed upon me. This book is built around a thread that traces the development of the life of the immigrants in America. Do not look in it for the development of my life, but rather look in it to see the development of the Antonakos family in America. Look at the life of the Antonakoses in Mani, their immigration to America, and their progress in America. Look at their material development and how they used it to obtain higher education for their children. Then note how, through the use of this education, they obtained good positions in the professional world. It is fervently hoped that all immigrants in America from all nations of the world will establish their culture in America as the ones who had come here earlier. The greatness of America will continue to remain as long as this peaceful blending of cultures continues to occur. This biography is written purely chronologically. The persons, places, and events are recorded chronologically in my story as they actually occurred in my life. Accept them as they are recorded, and don’t attempt to group different parts of my story together in any unique way.

Greek Americans

Author : Charles C. Moskos
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412824834
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Greek Americans written by Charles C. Moskos and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans--their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. This is the story of immigrants, their children and grandchildren, most of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of this country's most successful ethnic groups.

The Greek Americans

Author : Dimitris Monos
Publisher : Facts On File
ISBN 13 : 9780791033562
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Americans written by Dimitris Monos and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1996 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and culture of Greek Americans, and follows their achievements up to the present.

They Remember America

Author : Theodore Saloutos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520374827
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book They Remember America written by Theodore Saloutos and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.

The Greek Americans

Author : Alice Scourby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780805784237
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Americans written by Alice Scourby and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies on Greek Americans

Author : George A. Kourvetaris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Studies on Greek Americans written by George A. Kourvetaris and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader combines theory and research in the study of Greek-American ethnicity and identity. It includes chapters on the histories of early and late immigrants, first- and second-generation Greeks in Chicago, Greek Orthodox and Greek American identity, and Greek-American entrepreneurs. It also discusses continuity and change in the Greek American experience and examines the past, present and future of Greek American ethnicity within the larger framework of multiculturalism.

Educating Greek Americans

Author : Fevronia K. Soumakis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030398277
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Educating Greek Americans written by Fevronia K. Soumakis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection considers Greek American formal and informal educational efforts, institutions, and programs, broadly conceived, as they evolved over time throughout the United States. The book’s focus on Greek Americans aims to highlight the vast array of educational responses to local needs and contexts as this distinct, yet, heterogeneous immigrant community sought to maintain its linguistic, cultural, and religious heritage for over one hundred years. The chapters in this volume amend the scholarly literature that thus far has not only overlooked Greek American educational initiatives, but has also neglected to recognize and analyze the community’s persistence in sustaining them. This book is an important contribution to an understanding of Greek Americans’ long overdue history as a significant diaspora community within an American context.

Growing Up Greek in St. Louis

Author : Aphrodite Matsakis Ph.D.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439613419
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Greek in St. Louis written by Aphrodite Matsakis Ph.D. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-05-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the 20th century, St. Louis' Greek-American community has been a vibrant part of the city's fabric. Through a series of vivid personal accounts of growing up in two worlds during the post-WWII era, Growing Up Greek in St. Louis explores the challenges faced by Greek-Americans as they sought to preserve a rich cultural heritage while assimilating to American ways. From a detailed account of her Grandmothers' struggles during the occupation of Greece during WWII and the Asia Minor Holocaust to the first hand experiences faced by Greek-American children in Greek school, the celebration of name days, and the ever-present "evil eye," the book captures the sense of tradition, history, hospitality (philotimo), and community so vital to the Greek experience.

The Greeks in the United States

Author : Theodore Saloutos
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greeks in the United States written by Theodore Saloutos and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions to our social, political, and intellectual life, by Greeks in the United States, presented by a professor and chairman of the Department of History at U. C. L. A.

A History of the Greeks in the Americas, 1453-1938

Author : Paul Koken
Publisher : First Page Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Greeks in the Americas, 1453-1938 written by Paul Koken and published by First Page Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the historical immigration of Greeks to America. Learn about their life.

Opa!

Author : Arthur C. Cosmas
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1632991985
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Opa! written by Arthur C. Cosmas and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it means to be Greek In Opa!, author Arthur Cosmas presents a loving portrait of what it was like to be brought up as a Greek American in the Greek community in the United States during the 1950s. Some of the topics the author covers include the Greek family, Greek holidays and religion, the Mediterranean diet—healthy as well as unhealthy—the agora, assimilation, chaos, superstitions, and the evil eye. In this engaging and lovable portrayal of Greeks, the author relates facts about Greek culture and then brings these elements to life through true-life anecdotes about his family. Entertaining and informative, Opa! is a look into Greek heritage and traditions. This delightful book will make you laugh, it might revive affectionate memories of what it was like for you growing up, and it will remind you that we are all more alike than we are different.

Greek Music in America

Author : Tina Bucuvalas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496819748
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Greek Music in America written by Tina Bucuvalas and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies Contributions by Tina Bucuvalas, Anna Caraveli, Aydin Chaloupka, Sotirios (Sam) Chianis, Frank Desby, Stavros K. Frangos, Stathis Gauntlett, Joseph G. Graziosi, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Michael G. Kaloyanides, Panayotis League, Roderick Conway Morris, National Endowment for the Arts/National Heritage Fellows, Nick Pappas, Meletios Pouliopoulos, Anthony Shay, David Soffa, Dick Spottswood, Jim Stoynoff, and Anna Lomax Wood Despite a substantial artistic legacy, there has never been a book devoted to Greek music in America until now. Those seeking to learn about this vibrant and exciting music were forced to seek out individual essays, often published in obscure or ephemeral sources. This volume provides a singular platform for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays and profiles written by principal scholars in the field. Greece developed a rich variety of traditional, popular, and art music that diasporic Greeks brought with them to America. In Greek American communities, music was and continues to be an essential component of most social activities. Music links the past to the present, the distant to the near, and bonds the community with an embrace of memories and narrative. From 1896 to 1942, more than a thousand Greek recordings in many genres were made in the United States, and thousands more have appeared since then. These encompass not only Greek traditional music from all regions, but also emerging urban genres, stylistic changes, and new songs of social commentary. Greek Music in America includes essays on all of these topics as well as history and genre, places and venues, the recording business, and profiles of individual musicians. This book is required reading for anyone who cares about Greek music in America, whether scholar, fan, or performer.

Greeks in San Francisco

Author : Greek Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439657262
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Greeks in San Francisco written by Greek Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of San Francisco's Greek community is linked to the history of San Francisco. The first Greeks to arrive were sailors, miners, and laborers. By the 1880s, they had formed benevolent, civic, and fraternal organizations. In 1904, the first Greek Orthodox Church west of Chicago was established, and Third Street became the heart of the Greek community. The 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed much of their new community, but undaunted, the Greeks of San Francisco rebuilt their lives to become business leaders and politicians, contributing their entrepreneurial and philanthropic spirit to the city's rich heritage.

Perspective

Author : Peter Manouselis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578718477
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Perspective written by Peter Manouselis and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Greek Orthodox Church in America

Author : Alexander Kitroeff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749447
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Orthodox Church in America written by Alexander Kitroeff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.