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Journal articles on the topic "Czech diaspora"
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Chroust, David Zdeněk. "Keeping Soviet Russia in the Czech Diaspora?" Canadian-American Slavic Studies 49, no. 4 (2015): 453–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22102396-04904006.
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The Hospodář was a twice-monthly magazine for Czech farmers in America, launched in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1891. In the 1920s it became more international as the United States shut out immigrants from Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union became a leading subject in its editorials, columns and especially the hundreds of reader letters published every year. Transnational families were a window into the Czech communities in Volhynia and Crimea. Social Democrats, Communists and others argued about the Soviet Union’s merits as a workers’ and peasants’ state. Agronomist Stanislav Kovář became a regular columnist in Vologda and then Novorossiisk on the NEP and then collectivization in Soviet agriculture. Tolerant, largely written by readers, without political or religious affiliation, and international, the Hospodář was a productive forum for experience, imagination and discourse in the international Czech diaspora on the early Soviet Union.
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Tungul, Lucie. "The Turkish Community in the Czech Republic: A Diaspora in the Making?" Politics in Central Europe 16, no. 2 (September 1, 2020): 499–523. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pce-2020-0025.
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AbstractMigration is a relatively new phenomenon in the Czech Republic, which has gradually become a destination country. The securitisation and politicisation of migration in the Czech domestic discourse has created a great deal of public anxiety, especially towards Muslims. This paper focuses on the position of Turkish migrants, the single largest Muslim community in the Czech Republic, in the specific context of the Czech Republic. The objective is to define the nature of Turkish migration to the Czech Republic as part of broader migration patterns. Using data from the Czech Statistical Office and from a questionnaire survey, it investigates the Turkish community’s assessment of adaptation to the Czech environment and their position within the wider Turkish dias-pora policy. I argue that that the non-transparent Czech immigration policy and Czech Islamophobia are potential factors influencing the adaptation process of the Turkish community, which might affect their decision to remain in the country. Furthermore, the small size of the Turkish community can hamper the migrants’ social life, who might wish to maintain strong ties with the homeland and the diaspora community in Europe.
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Součková, Taťána. "The Ukrainian Minority in Brno: A Qualitative Research on Ethnic Identity." Ethnologia Actualis 15, no. 2 (December 1, 2015): 66–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eas-2015-0017.
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Abstract The article focuses on the presentation of the temporary results of the qualitative ethnological research concerning the Ukrainian minority in Brno, Czech Republic. It is aimed on the description of the basic principles of the life of the diaspora in Brno and expressing the ethnic identity of the Ukrainians. After the introductory part author defines the methodological approach as well as the techniques used while carrying out the research. Following part of the article is aimed on characterizing the main attributes of the Ukrainian ethnic identity according to the informants. Moreover, the perception of the presence of the Ukrainian diaspora in Brno is illustrated by the conclusions acquired from the open-ended interviews with the Czech participants.
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Vlková, M., E. Kubátová, P. Šlechta, and Z. Polesný. "Traditional Use of Plants by the Disappearing Czech Diaspora in Romanian Banat." Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica 46, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sab-2015-0016.
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Abstract Most of the ethnobotanical research is dedicated to food and medicinal plants, while the other categories, such as plants used as materials, veterinary remedies or fodder remain neglected. This trend dominates in East Europe where linguistic approach prevails, while ethnographical one stays under-explored, though the heritage of the 19th century was impressive. Field data were collected through in-depth individual semi-structured interviews with the last remaining ethnic Czechs living in Romanian Banat and triangulated with extensive participant observation. The aims of this study were to document and preserve local knowledge pertaining to the use of traditional cultivated and wild plants. The study focused on under-documented use categories, hence, food and medicinal plants were excluded. In total, 56 plant species were cited by informants. The paper also highlights vernacular names, phytonyms, and particularly interesting uses of plant resources or related aspects not described previously or under-reported in the literature. The authors conclude that the ethnobotanical knowledge still survives as a part of the cultural heritage of the Czech diaspora. However, several interesting uses are only practiced by elderly people, the knowledge is ageing, and is likely to vanish fairly soon.
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Košťálová, Petra. "Stosunki czesko-ormiańskie." Lehahayer 7 (March 15, 2021): 283–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/lh.07.2020.07.07.
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Czech-Armenians relations: a brief historical survey
Armenian studies in Czech Republic became more widely known toCzech public in recent years. Following up the long tradition of Oriental studies ingeneral, a newly re-established research centre was opened at the Department ofEast-European Studies at Charles University, aiming to cooperate with other colleagues.After long and heated discussions, Czech Republic decided on (albeit nonofficial) recognition of Armenian Genocide and supports initiatives to prevent suchviolence in future. Several monographs dealing with this subject were published recently.And finally, despite the fact that the Czech Republic has no historical experience with the presence of Armenian diaspora before the year 1990, well establishedand coherent Armenian community exists here now and – especially in Prague –shows a high degree of integration into Czech majority. Already two generations ofCzech Armenians are following their identity strategies while preserving their owncultural identity.
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Vedernikov, Mikhail V. "Baku sport societies in the Russian Empire (1900–1914)." Slavic World in the Third Millennium 13, no. 1-2 (2018): 88–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2018.1.2.07.
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The article attempts to identify the main stages of the Baku sport societies’ development from their origin to the outbreak of the First World War. From the very beginning, their activities were based on the Sokol ideology and the Sokol complex of physical exercises. This, in its turn, predetermined participation of a significant number of Czech specialists and members of the Czech diaspora, who lived in the Baku province, in their work. The author concludes that all attempts of Sokol activists to spread the Panslavic ideas among compatriots and residents of Baku were met with strong resistance and reluctance because the locals did not want to see Sokol as an ideological landmark of the Czech community in Russia.
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Motruk, Svitlana. "Migration of Ukrainians to the Czech Republic in the Context of European Integration processes of the 21st Century." European Historical Studies, no. 15 (2020): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2524-048x.2020.15.5.
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On the basis of a large variety of documents and materials the article analyses the preconditions, main stage and consequences of the Ukrainian migration to the Czech Republic during the period of European integration. The article defines the problems of the migration and the prospects for its development in the 21st century. The author emphasises globalization, world conditions, scientific and technological progress, specialization of markets at regional level, social and public labor potential as the key factors of labor mobility, as well as geopolitical and geocultural factors, that changes people’s world outlook in the context of information society. The study focuses on the main reasons for migration from Ukraine to Czech Republic (relatively stable and positive situation in the Czech economy in comparison to the Ukrainian, position in the labor market, the cultural and linguistic similarities, the long history of mutual migration processes). In addition, the author points out at a number of the modern trends of the migration (the quantitative growth of migrant workers and students in absolute numbers as well as in percentage, the growing number of Ukrainians with the Czech residence permit, the transformation of the social structure of migrants, permanent illegal employment). The changes in the migration policy of the Czech Republic after accession to the EU, its political and social context, positive and negative effects, the contents of the so-called «Ukraine Project» and «Ukraine Mode» are examined. The growing impact of the Ukrainian migrants on the development of the Czech economy and society is underlined. The article identifies of the modern migration as a phenomenon, which is being institutionalized and which transforms from a traditional social movement into a structured social organism (diaspora, network of national public associations, infrastructure of the migration services market, etc.), and thus into the subject and instrument of regulation of the people’s economic activity. Some aspects of the Ukrainian diaspora life in Czech Republic are considered.
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Labendz, Jacob Ari. ""In unserem Kreise": Czech-Jewish Activism and Diaspora in the USA, 1933–1994." American Jewish History 105, no. 3 (2021): 371–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2021.0035.
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Koroutchev, Rossen, and Ladislav Novotný. "Contemporary Bulgarian migration to the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4)." Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 44 (June 30, 2021): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e67249.
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The paper studies the contemporary migration of Bulgarians to countries of the Visegrad Group (V4) – the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. After making a short historical overview of this phenomenon since the 19th century and the contemporary migration of Bulgarians in the years following 1989, the paper analyses the evolution of Bulgarian migration to the V4 countries in the recent years. The authors conclude that there are important migration flows of Bulgarian citizens towards these countries, due to job perspectives, similar social economic systems and the Bulgarian diaspora already living there.
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Židová, Diana. "Ethnic Literature and Slovak American Research." Ars Aeterna 6, no. 1 (June 1, 2014): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2014-0001.
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Abstract The article outlines the beginnings of ethnic literature research in the United States of America with regards to its reception from the 1960s to the 1980s. Aesthetic merit as a leading consideration in the evaluation of literary works, in view of the opinions of numerous critics, is quite problematic to apply in the case of Czech and Polish literature. Considering the output of Slovak-American research in the field of literary criticism and literary history, the results are not satisfactory either. There are a few works that provide valuable insight into the literature of the Slovak diaspora.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Czech diaspora"
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Dejmek, Andrea Theresa. "The Canadian Czech diaspora : bilingual and multilingual language inheritance and affiliations." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112332.
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The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand how children within a Canadian Czech diasporic context, create and discover their Czech heritage language and culture through meaningful active participation in areas provided within the constructs of a non traditional setting such as a summer camp. Five contextual areas of the camp were identified and studied. The areas are: activities, food, camp counselors, staff dynamics and location. Braziel and Mannur (2003) and Rampton's (1990) aspects of "language inheritance" and "language affiliation" inform the analysis.
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Elliott, Melissa Wynne. "Music, 'race' and diaspora : Romani music making in Ostrava, Czech Republic." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2005. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29173/.
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This thesis is a contribution towards an historically informed understanding of contemporary music making amongst Roma in Ostrava, Czech Republic. It also challenges, from a theoretical perspective, conceptions of relationships between music and discourses of 'race'. My research is based on fieldwork conducted in Ostrava, between August 2003 and July 2004 and East Slovakia in July 2004, as well as archival research in Ostrava and Vienna. These fieldwork experiences compelled me to explore music and ideas of 'race' through discourses of diaspora in order to assist in conceptualising and interpreting Romani music making in Ostrava. The vast majority of Roma in Ostrava are post-World War II emigres or descendants of emigres from East Slovakia. In contemporary Ostrava, most Roma live on the socioeconomic margins and are most often regarded as a separate 'race' with a separate culture from the dominant population. Chapter 1 considers Romani history and origins in the light of postmodern perspectives. Academic and grassroots debates are reviewed and I explore their significance in the context of contemporary Romani music making in Ostrava. The history of 'race', the history of Roma in the Czech lands and Slovakia 1399-1948, and their increasing interweaving and fatal collision in the Nazi-led Holocaust, is outlined in chapter 2. The legacies of the Holocaust, Romani history and contemporary racial experiences are considered in relation to the anthem of the Czech and Slovak Roma. Chapter 3 considers life for Roma under Czechoslovak socialism and I examine recordings of Romani music and memories of this time. In chapter 4, the vast socio-economic and cultural changes following the demise of the Communist party and the influence of the modern nation-state and nationalism are explored in relation to Ostrava Roma and the major reinterpretations of Romani musical traditions that have been taking place post-1989. The phenomenon of Rompop is discussed in chapter 5, particularly its contemporary expressions in bands, parties and discos in Ostrava, which is then used as an example in the consideration of possible connections between music and ideas of 'race' in a theoretical interlude. Chapter 6 explores new trends in Ostrava music making that mark a fundamental rupture with traditions and draw on a variety of cultural expressions from around the globe. In chapter 7, I introduce the small and separate group of Vlach Roma in Ostrava and their strong diasporic connections to other Vlach. I conclude my theoretical challenge to conceptions of music and 'race' in chapter 8 by offering a framework with which to consider Romani music making in Ostrava and its racialisation, drawing on Hall's theory of articulation and discourses of diaspora.
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Castle, Chloe Michelle. "The co-option of grammatical resources between languages: a focus on English and Czech." Thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2440/134191.
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In this thesis I analyse the ways that bilinguals utilise grammatical resources across two languages – English and Czech. I focus on language contact centring the bilingual individual as the “ultimate locus of contact” (Romaine 2005: 49; Li Wei 2013). Use of grammatical resources is considered through the lens of grammatical borrowing and replication (Heine & Kuteva 2005; Kuteva 2017), or matter (MAT) and pattern (PAT) borrowing (Matras & Sakel 2007), as well as shift and attrition. The research investigates whether grammatical borrowing and replication occur between English and Czech in the South Australian Czech community and for L1 English speakers in the Czech Republic. It provides an understanding as to why contact-induced borrowing occurs between these languages. I also address consciousness¹ of borrowing, other contact and non-contact related processes in bilingual speech, and compares the two parallel linguistic situations. This thesis consists of four papers. The first paper examines grammatical replication and shift in South Australian Czech. Qualitative analysis of grammatical features drawn from authentic speech, supported by both Thomason’s (2001) steps for identifying contact-induced structural change and the dynamic model of multilingualism (Herdina & Jessner 2002), reveal that non- Czech natural word order, overt subject usage, and tentative article formation are partially attributable to grammatical replication. Attrition and divergent attainment are also causes of grammatical features identified. In the second paper, I identify several reasons for South Australian Czech community members’ engagement in borrowing, including sociocultural pressures (such as community pressures, partner attitudes, etc.), cognitive pressures and prestige value. All of the factors are encompassed by need (van Coetsem 2000), which is the primary motive for borrowing in South Australian Czech. In the third paper, I study the opposite situation to that of South Australian Czech: the speech of L1 English L2 Czech speakers in the Czech Republic. I posit that non-use of articles, adjective placement, functional suffix borrowing, and diminutive suffix borrowing are partially attributable to language contact. The types of borrowing that occur here are different to those in South Australian Czech; there is not only syntactic borrowing but also morphological form borrowing present. Attrition processes and accommodation are also factors here. The fourth paper analyses motivators in language use amongst L1 English L2 Czech speakers in the Czech Republic. It is identified that social pressure, cognitive pressures, gap filling, and conscious creative decisions are drivers of grammatical borrowing, and social pressure and self-pressure are inhibiting forces. To show how bilingual speakers engage consciously with borrowing and innovations between their two languages, I present a new model that addresses conscious and subconscious borrowing whilst also considering effects such as prescriptivism, self-pressure, language maintenance effort (Herdina & Jessner 2002) and societal pressure. Language contact and links to language transfer have been of increasing interest to linguists for the past few decades. Ongoing research on the borrowing of grammatical resources in different communities can provide a more thorough insight into the phenomenon. Studies of language combinations with differing typologies in different sociolinguistic situations can provide a deeper understanding of the interrelationship between language contact and the co- option of grammatical resources.
¹ In this thesis, consciousness refers to deliberateness and awareness surrounding engagement in borrowing.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2021
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Kamenická, Mezhlumyan Marta. "Preference výběru partnera u příslušníků arménské komunity v České republice." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-373619.
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The aim of the thesis is to identify and analyze the reasons that play a role in choosing a life partner among members of the Armenian community in the Czech Republic. The basis of the thesis will be a qualitative research conducted through unstructured interviews with Armenians living in the Czech Republic focused on informers of different gender and different generation of immigration. Research will concentrate mainly on the criteria by which informers choose partners, whether and why they prefer Armenians or other nationalities and on their perception of ethnic gender and family stereotypes.
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Skořepová, Zita. "Vídeňští Češi v 21.století a jejich hudba z etnomuzikologické perspektivy." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-350959.
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Around 1900, Vienna became the city with the greatest number of Czech-language speakers. Members of the Czech minority founded important community institutions and engaged in a wide range of cultural activities - music among them. The most important markers characterizing the contemporary Czech minority in Vienna are (1) several variously motivated and differently politically determined waves of voluntary, but also involuntary, migration, (2) presence of descendants of those Czechs who stayed on the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, and (3) coexistence of several generations and groups of people with different political orientation and attitudes towards integration into Austrian society. At present, the Czech Viennese minority is a heterogeneous community with different "culture cohorts". Using fieldwork, thus the participant observation of musical events together with the semi- structured interviews and combining the theoretical perspectives of ethnomusicology and diaspora studies, this dissertation deals with the three interrelated questions: How do the musical creativity and participation at musical events reflect the heterogeneity of the contemporary Czech Viennese minority? How does the migrant situation determine the creativity, respectively the participation at musical events? And how...
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Pokorná, Anna. "Sionisty bez přesvědčení: Utváření imaginace a performance transnacionální přináležitosti." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-352082.
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This dissertation based on a fieldwork conducted among Czech Jewish youth during a ten-days educational touristic program Taglit-Birthright explores production of transnational space of mutual belonging. The transnational belonging to Jewish collective is produced through particular physical space of Israel through practice of tourism in collective constructed by the programme as a collective of common origin based on "blood ties". I examine participants' tourist bodily experience, performances, emotions and attitudes as a site of production and reproduction of transnational space using a concept of embodiment as ways in which the individual grasps the world around him/her and makes sense of it in ways that engage both body and mind. Transnational space created throughout the programme becomes socially constructed emotional category of "ahavat Israel", "love for Israel" that might conceal its political implications. Keywords: Transnationalism, diaspora, tourism, embodiment, Jewish youth, Taglit-Birthright, Czech Republic, Israel
Books on the topic "Czech diaspora"
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1937-, Savický Ivan, ed. Russia abroad: Prague and the Russian diaspora, 1918-1938. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
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Janská, Eva, and Kristýna Janurová. "Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Czech Citizens Abroad." In IMISCOE Research Series, 123–41. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51245-3_7.
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Abstract The Czech diaspora counts approximately 2.5 million people with Czech origins, including some 912,000 people born in Czechia. Although the diaspora has not been of crucial concern to Czech authorities and political parties in the past decades, a greater interest can be seen in recent years. This chapter is a first attempt at presenting a consolidated overview of the institutional and policy structure towards the Czech diaspora in various areas, showing that Czechia’s engagement with its nationals abroad centers on cultural and educational policies and involves an extension of voting rights, while consular services are conventional and social protection is considered to be primarily the task of the migrants’ host countries. Some exceptions are noted in the areas of health care and pensions. This is being explained by the fact that emigration has not been perceived as a threat to the Czech economy in the past few decades, and the observation that many of the policies introduced came out from bottom-up efforts.
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Mareš, Miroslav, and Tomáš Šmíd. "The Russian and North Caucasus Diaspora in the Czech Republic: Between Loyalty, Crime and Extremism." In Czech Security Dilemma, 151–75. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20546-1_6.
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Nožina, Miroslav, and Filip Kraus. "The World of the Vietnamese Diaspora in the CR." In Vietnamese Organized Crime in the Czech Republic, 59–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43613-1_4.
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Horálek, Adam, Ter-hsing James Cheng, and Liyan Hu. "Identity Formation and Social Integration: Creating and Imagining the Chinese Community in Prague, the Czech Republic." In Contemporary Chinese Diasporas, 263–83. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5595-9_12.
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Pfeifer, Michael J. "The Making of a Midwestern Catholicism." In The Making of American Catholicism, 61–76. NYU Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479829453.003.0003.
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This chapter uses Iowa City’s history of transnational, multiethnic Catholic cultures to trace the complex and varied origins of a regional Midwestern Catholic culture. Iowa can in a sense be seen as indicative of the Catholic experience in the Lower Midwest, where diverse ethnic Catholic enclaves scattered across a largely rural landscape that also attracted large numbers of worshippers from various Protestant denominations, especially Methodists and Congregationalists. Iowa City provides an excellent setting to trace the formation of a regional Catholic Midwestern culture rooted in plural ethnic diasporas and transnational connections. In the antebellum and early postbellum periods, the town encompassed the diverse, heterogenous character of nineteenth-century Midwestern Catholicism, including significant numbers of Irish, German, and Bohemian (Czech) Catholics. Amid the centrifugal pressures initially exerted by their diversity, this chapter argues, Iowa City’s Catholics experienced in miniature larger processes that would play out across the Midwest and among American Catholics more generally. Uneasily integrated for several decades in a single parish housing the town’s three significant ethnic Catholic communities, St. Mary’s Parish would fracture in favor of ethnic separatism, the formation of distinct ethnic parishes, in the latter decades of the nineteenth century.