СPПСКА ИСЕЉЕНИЧКА КУЛТУPА: С ПАЦИФИКА НА СКАДАPСКО БЛАТО
SERBIAN EMIGRANT CULTURE: FROM THE PACIFIC TO LAKE SKADAR

Summary/Abstract: Čedomir Pavić emigrated in 1904 from Montenegro to the USA where he worked as editor of several Serbian language newspapers in Pittsburgh, New York and San Francisco. On news of the war between allied Balkan states and Turkey he joined a group of 120 Serbian war volunteers that travelled from San Francisco to Bar, from where they were transferred as reserve soldiers to the front at Skadar. From October 1912 to the end of January 1913 Pavić was a war correspondent for the San Francisco Serbian Herald (Srpski glasnik) and later published the book From the Pacific to the Lake of Skadar (San Francisco, 1913). His plan to return to California and resume his studies at Berkeley was cut short by his death (1916) in World War One. From the Pacific to Lake Skadar is significant as the only book among Serbian war diaries and memoirs on the First Balkan War written by an emigrant author. In addition to its documentary value regarding the organization of Serbian war volunteers in the USA, Pavić’s narrative is exceptional due to the specific point of view of the narrator viewing his homeland in terms of his emigrant experience in America.

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