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The Serb National Federation was formed by the merger of various Serbian fraternal organizations, beginning in 1901 with the founding of the Serbian Orthodox Society. In 1929, the two largest associations, Srbobran-Sloga and Saves Sloboda united to form the Federation. In 1960, the Federation merged with the independent society, Oblich. A final merger occurred in 1963 when the Serbian Beneficial Union (Jedinstvo) joined the Federation. The Federation is the largest Serbian-American benevolent society; it has over 21,000 members in the United States and Canada. Its purpose is to provide insurance, promote and preserve Serbian culture, and provide sports and educational activities. Its official organ is American Srbobran, which began publication in Pittsburgh in 1901 as the SRBIN; its name was changed in 1905. It is the oldest continuously published Serbian newspaper in the United States.
Records of the Serb National Federation are only a portion of the total records in the National Office. They include minutes books of the Supreme Council, Executive Board, and Board of Directors (1929-1980); Convention minutes (1931-1979); convention reports (1931-1979); Calendars (American Srbobran, 1925-1926, 1929, 1931-1967), (Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States and Canada, 1967-1981).
Inventory available.
Related Serb National Federation collections at the IHRC are: Records of Srbobran (Pittsburgh, Pa.); Sloga (New York, N.Y.); Sloboda (Pittsburgh, Pa.); Srbadija (New York, N.Y.); Jedinstvo (Cleveland, Ohio); Srbobran-Sloga (Pittsburgh, Pa.); Oblich (Chicago, Ill.).
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