Czechs abroad
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Plzeň (Bohemia) students celebrate Pilsen’s (Chicago) Czech – and Mexican – heritage
Chicago has been a major centre of Czech immigration to the United States since the 1850s. Today, the district of Pilsen which those settlers founded in the 19th century…
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National Museum searching for early Czech sound recordings in US
Few people in the Czech Republic know that a significant chapter in the history of early Czech sound recordings was written by Czech immigrants in the United States. For…
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Government’s commissioner for expats on the need to look beyond Czech borders and connect with our…
According to the Czech Foreign Ministry there are now more than two million Czechs living abroad. The people making up the country’s expat communities in different parts…
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Filip Koubek: Today’s Czechs in Australia fit in easily
Many Czechs in Australia will be familiar with the voice of Filip Koubek. This is because for many years he presented special Czech broadcasting produced by the country’s…
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Co-founder of New York property site Igluu Martin Mucha on real estate, entrepreneurship and…
Despite being in his early 30s, Martin Mucha is already a successful Czech businessman in New York. Many locals may know Igluu, the real estate website he co-founded which…
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‘Don’t give up!’: Alice Ždrale, head of the Czech and Slovak School of Pittsburgh, on language and…
Just over 100 years ago, the American steel town of Pittsburgh was host to a memorandum of understanding between the nation’s Czech and Slovak immigrant communities to…
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Prague conference highlights importance of teaching Czech children abroad about their roots
This week Prague has been hosting the 11th International Conference of Czech Schools Abroad. The regular event is organised by the Czech School Without Borders, an NGO…
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Krajané: Draft law eases path to Czech citizenship for descendants of exiles, emigres stripped of it
The Senate has passed a draft law that would make it easier for the children and grandchildren of exiles from Communist Czechoslovakia to obtain Czech citizenship. The…
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Julie Urbišová: Once thrown during Mardi Gras, Czech beads are still to be found in New Orleans…
Journalist Julie Urbišová has just published a book entitled Doma v NOLA, or At Home in NOLA, with NOLA meaning New Orleans, Louisiana. Having first visited the city on a…
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Bohdan Pomahač: Transplanted kidneys’ half-life is about 15 years – we can’t expect faces to last…
Bohdan Pomahač led the team that carried out the first ever full transplant of a human face in the United States. The Boston-based plastic surgeon recently received the…
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New book offers Czech children growing up abroad picture of home
For the past seven years, Denisa Haubertová Šedivá has been living in Brussels with her husband, Czech ambassador to NATO Jiří Šedivý, and their two children. While…
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The Czech National Trust celebrates five years: “We just let people know we have volunteer work and…
The Czech National Trust celebrated five years of existence on Tuesday with an international conference at Strahov Monastery in Prague. According to delegates, the…
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