The author provides an overview of Slovene emigrant societies in Western European countries up to 1940. The article was written on the basis of newspapers, calendars and references in journalistic articles, scientific monographs and papers.

The author provides an overview of Slovene emigrant societies in Western European countries up to 1940. The article was written on the basis of newspapers, calendars and references in journalistic articles, scientific monographs and papers.

The study surveys the life and work of Frederick Baraga (1797-1868), who came to America in 1831 to work as a Catholic missionary among the Ojibway and Ottawa Indians in Upper Michigan and Minnesota, since 1859 as bishop of Sault Ste Marie and later of Marquette. His literary work in Slovene, which he pursued both before and after his departure for America, was limited exclusively to religious texts, prayer books and meditative edification. He wrote also a whole series of books in Ojibway and Ottawa languages which in their contents resemble books he had published in Slovene.

The study surveys the life and work of Frederick Baraga (1797-1868), who came to America in 1831 to work as a Catholic missionary among the Ojibway and Ottawa Indians in Upper Michigan and Minnesota, since 1859 as bishop of Sault Ste Marie and later of Marquette. His literary work in Slovene, which he pursued both before and after his departure for America, was limited exclusively to religious texts, prayer books and meditative edification. He wrote also a whole series of books in Ojibway and Ottawa languages which in their contents resemble books he had published in Slovene.

You have before you the latest issue of the journal of the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research and its regular and occasional contributors from Slovenia and abroad. As with the first (1990) and fifth issues (1994), this year’s issue does not include complete or at least partial publications of papers from the last annual meeting in the field of Slovene emigration, which had become the common practice. The collection of papers presented at the international symposium entitled Soočenje mita in realnosti ob prihodu izseljencev v novo okolje (The Confrontation between Myth and Reality on the Arrival of the Emigrants to a New Land), which was organized last year by the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research in Portorož, was published separately owing to the large number of articles. The response to the journal mainly in the countries of origin of the participants of the symposium was certainly evidence enough of the rightness of such a decision. All articles published in this issue of Two Homelands were prepared especially for this journal, with only three exceptions. Two of these have never been published before, while a large part of the third was published in the latest issue of the magazine Meddobje, but in Slovene; we publish it here in English and in a revised form for the sake of its comparative applicability. This year’s issue com prises twenty-six articles in three regular columns, that is, fourteen papers (in four disciplines: history, demography, social anthropology and history of literature), five reports on events of interest linked to research on the issue of emigration , and seven book reviews or reports.

You have before you the latest issue of the journal of the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research and its regular and occasional contributors from Slovenia and abroad. As with the first (1990) and fifth issues (1994), this year’s issue does not include complete or at least partial publications of papers from the last annual meeting in the field of Slovene emigration, which had become the common practice. The collection of papers presented at the international symposium entitled Soočenje mita in realnosti ob prihodu izseljencev v novo okolje (The Confrontation between Myth and Reality on the Arrival of the Emigrants to a New Land), which was organized last year by the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research in Portorož, was published separately owing to the large number of articles. The response to the journal mainly in the countries of origin of the participants of the symposium was certainly evidence enough of the rightness of such a decision. All articles published in this issue of Two Homelands were prepared especially for this journal, with only three exceptions. Two of these have never been published before, while a large part of the third was published in the latest issue of the magazine Meddobje, but in Slovene; we publish it here in English and in a revised form for the sake of its comparative applicability. This year’s issue com prises twenty-six articles in three regular columns, that is, fourteen papers (in four disciplines: history, demography, social anthropology and history of literature), five reports on events of interest linked to research on the issue of emigration , and seven book reviews or reports.

The review was written in the Slovene language.

The review was written in the Slovene language.

The review was written in the Slovene language.

The review was written in the Slovene language.