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In search of the lost people of Zlobin - research
on overseas emigration from a Croatian village on the Adriatic coast
by Radovan Tadej is a recent publication dealing with the families
of Zlobin, a town on the Adriatic coast 25 km east of Rijeka.
Zlobin's emigration can be considered fairly typical
of coastal and interior towns of western Croatia during the last century.
Emigration was mostly outward with few of the immigrants returning to
their place of birth. In Zlobin the rate of emigration was almost at
quarter percent early in the twentieth century. Lists of names of Zlobin
inhabitants who immigrated overseas provided with dates of birth and
death. Tadej does a wonderful job of outlining the families who settled
overseas providing narrative lists of names and statistics. Sections
are included on immigration of Zlobin inhabitants to New Zealand, Latin
America and North America.
Biographies on several Zlobin immigrants are provided.
Two of the prominent men from Zlobin featured in the book are Josip
Marohnic, the founder of Croatian Bookstore in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
and Ivan Kruzic, who befriended Ernest Hemingway in Key
West, Florida.
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