Dr. Jonas Šliūpas: Jo Raštai ir Tautinė Veikla
Redagavo ir J. Šliūpo bibliografinį sąrašą bei vardyną parengė Jonas Dainauskas
1979
Introduction
This 1979 Chicago monograph by historian Dr. Juozas Jakštas offers a comprehensive scholarly study of Dr. Jonas Šliūpas — one of the most consequential and controversial figures in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lithuanian cultural life — examining his prolific writings and his national activist work across Lithuania, Prussian Lithuania, and the American Lithuanian diaspora. Šliūpas was a freethinker, physician, and editor whose secular-nationalist ideology brought him into repeated conflict with the Catholic clergy even as he championed Lithuanian language and identity during the press-ban era. Published by the Lithuanian Academic Scouting Press with patronage from the Šliūpas family, this volume includes an extensive bibliography compiled by Jonas Dainauskas and constitutes a major reference work for diaspora intellectual history.
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Community and publication setting
Context and significance
Significance
Dr. Jonas Šliūpas (1861–1944) occupies a singular and contested position in Lithuanian cultural history: a physician, prolific writer, editor of multiple Lithuanian-language newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, and passionate advocate for Lithuanian national awakening who simultaneously waged a lifelong ideological war against the Catholic Church's dominance over Lithuanian communal life. His activity during the Russian Imperial press ban (1864–1904) — when Lithuanian Latin-script printing was forbidden — placed him at the center of the clandestine book-smuggling network, editing Aušra in Tilžė and building early Lithuanian-American community institutions in Baltimore and New York. This 1979 diaspora monograph by Dr. Juozas Jakštas, with bibliography by Jonas Dainauskas, is the most comprehensive scholarly treatment of Šliūpas's writings and activism produced outside Soviet Lithuania, compiled at a moment when honest assessment of his anti-clerical legacy was impossible within Soviet-controlled Lithuanian scholarship.
How this record carried memory
Diaspora scholarly publishing: a Lithuanian-American academic press (Akademinės Skautijos Leidykla) producing Lithuanian-language historical scholarship for the diaspora community, preserving memory of a foundational figure in Lithuanian national awakening and press-ban resistance during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania.
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