The paper explores the role of the Croatian Fraternal Union and its news paper Zajedničar in contributing to the evolution of the ethnic identity of the second generation of Croatian immigrants in the USA. Causes for adecreased CFU membership of the World War One and the strategy of the

CFU leaders to Expand the membership are presented in detail. The study's - besides other sources - largely based upon articles published in Zajedničar between 1928 and 1936.

The paper explores the role of the Croatian Fraternal Union and its news paper Zajedničar in contributing to the evolution of the ethnic identity of the second generation of Croatian immigrants in the USA. Causes for adecreased CFU membership of the World War One and the strategy of the

CFU leaders to Expand the membership are presented in detail. The study's - besides other sources - largely based upon articles published in Zajedničar between 1928 and 1936.

The first issue of the international scientific review Dve domovini/Two Homelands, published by the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research, a part of the Centre of Scientific Research of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, has been received very favourably, both at home and abroad. This encouraging response gives its editors every reason to continue with the publication of this periodical. Despite the very difficult financial situation, you have before you a double issue of Dve domovini/Two Homelands. The first of the two sections contains a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Emigrant Publications, held in Maribor from 18 to 21 April 1991. The gathering was organized by Maribor’s Faculty of Education, the History Department and the Research Institute of the same Faculty, and financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia. In keeping with the policy of open scientific cooperation, the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research cooperated very productively with all home scholars and foreign researches of Slovene extraction who attended the symposium.

The first issue of the international scientific review Dve domovini/Two Homelands, published by the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research, a part of the Centre of Scientific Research of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, has been received very favourably, both at home and abroad. This encouraging response gives its editors every reason to continue with the publication of this periodical. Despite the very difficult financial situation, you have before you a double issue of Dve domovini/Two Homelands. The first of the two sections contains a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Emigrant Publications, held in Maribor from 18 to 21 April 1991. The gathering was organized by Maribor’s Faculty of Education, the History Department and the Research Institute of the same Faculty, and financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia. In keeping with the policy of open scientific cooperation, the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research cooperated very productively with all home scholars and foreign researches of Slovene extraction who attended the symposium.

In writing this Memorial, I was fortunate to have access to John P. Nielsen’s Curriculum Vitae 1985, deposited in the archivesof the Research and Documentation: Slovene Studies. I also would like to thank Ms. Deborah Sesek from Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Margaret Sachter from New York City, and ProfessorCarole Rogel, the President of the Society for Slovene Studies, for additional inform ation and for their comments.

In writing this Memorial, I was fortunate to have access to John P. Nielsen’s Curriculum Vitae 1985, deposited in the archivesof the Research and Documentation: Slovene Studies. I also would like to thank Ms. Deborah Sesek from Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Margaret Sachter from New York City, and ProfessorCarole Rogel, the President of the Society for Slovene Studies, for additional inform ation and for their comments.

The review was published in Slovene language.

The review was published in Slovene language.

This paper comprises a survey of some fundamental publications by American immigration researchers on the problem of "the second generation". Included particularly are works on the position of the second generation in the Italian and Slavic ethnic communities. The rudimentary treatments of this theme among Slovene emigrants to the USA are also considered. For practical reasons, the time rang of the surveyed American publications is somewhat limited. They reach only to the first half of the 1980$s except for some in which only a few paragraphs deal with this problem. The considered works investigate the problems of the second generation within various disciplines, such as psychology, pedagogics, historiography, social linguistic and ethnology. On the issue of the position of the second generation within the Slovene National Benefit Society, some newspaper sources were used.

This paper comprises a survey of some fundamental publications by American immigration researchers on the problem of "the second generation". Included particularly are works on the position of the second generation in the Italian and Slavic ethnic communities. The rudimentary treatments of this theme among Slovene emigrants to the USA are also considered. For practical reasons, the time rang of the surveyed American publications is somewhat limited. They reach only to the first half of the 1980$s except for some in which only a few paragraphs deal with this problem. The considered works investigate the problems of the second generation within various disciplines, such as psychology, pedagogics, historiography, social linguistic and ethnology. On the issue of the position of the second generation within the Slovene National Benefit Society, some newspaper sources were used.