St. George of Bridgeville : The Story of Syrian Immigrants in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania
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Authors
Greene, Donovan O.
Issue Date
2023-11-01
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
In the early 20th century, sixteen Syrian families came to the small southwest Pennsylvanian town of Bridgeville as part of a larger migration of Ottoman Syrians to the Americas. They were Eastern Orthodox Christians from a cluster of predominately Christian villages north of the Syrian-Lebanon border and west of the Syrian city of Homs. Upon arriving in the United States, they established a close-knit community in Bridgeville that began in the Baldwin Street neighborhood. Over multiple generations an enduring sense of community has been preserved through food practices, religious tradition, and individual memory practices. The chief establishment of their legacy is the existence of their very own parish St. George of Bridgeville that has been the primary site for preserving memory.
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vii, 43 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College
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