Първият български буквар в Америка
The first Bulgarian primer in America

Summary/Abstract: Bulgarian emigration appeared in the new world as relatively massive community in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In the first decade of the twentieth century the number of its members exceeds 50,000 people. In the large industrial centers of the US and Canada, durable Bulgarian settlements occurred. With the emergence of children in immigrant families, the need aroused of Bulgarian immigrant school. The first Bulgarians educators overseas solved the problem of textbooks in the most correct way. All manuals were ordered from Bulgaria. Thus in 1906 in North America, the first Bulgarian primer penetrated, which at that time was used in the school of free Bulgarian state. This book played an invaluable role in the preservation of native Bulgarian language among immigrant second generation and promote the conservation of important national virtues among newborns Bulgarians in the new world.

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