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Tales of Slavonic Souls: The Immigrants
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About Tales Of Slavonic Souls: The Immigrants
Product Description Tales of Slavonic Souls: The Immigrants Departing Central Europe before and The Great War to Nová Praha, Texas—a magical, mystical, and sometimes mysterious place—Slavic immigrants help rebuild a community once abandoned by many of its English-Scottish inhabitants. These fictional characters from Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the German States leave the dying Hapsburg Empire and undertake the perilous journey over land and water to settle in America. They carry with them the folk traditions and Christianity of their Old World and attempt to transplant them in their adopted land. But many have difficulty escaping their haunting past because their enemies, most in Europe but a few in their midst, seek to harm them. The characters represent a variety of occupations and professions These stories render the struggles and joys of families and individuals who escape from the Old World and settle in the Hill Country of Texas. About the Author Stanley J. Kajs is a second generation Czech-American born in Raymondville, Texas. He grew up on his parents’ farm in Willacy County. He attended Lyford public grade schools and Corpus Christi Minor Seminary. He earned his master’s degree in literary criticism and doctorate in literature and political philosophy from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. He has over forty years of teaching and administrative experience in secondary and higher education. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at Chesapeake College located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. His grandparents immigrated to the United States around the turn of the twentieth century, the Simeks from Bohemia and the Kajses from Moravia. His parents were born in Georgetown, Texas, grew up in Corn Hill, a few miles north, married and then settled on a farm in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. The Slavonic tradition and customs and the Roman Catholic faith and rituals presented in the stories were part of his growing up Czech in the mid-century.
