• Burnt Toast: A Family History

  • Apr 29 2023
  • Length: 6 mins
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Burnt Toast: A Family History

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  • Burnt toast. Burnt toast was always one of my mother’s favorite snacks. I never understood the reasoning behind making a perfectly good piece of bread taste like charcoal, but it turns out, that it all tracks all the way back to 1875 in Wassersuppen, Bohemia to a boy named Franz Zeig, my great great grandfather.

    Welcome to the family stories podcast, where we know that every family has a story, but not every story gets told. I am Evan Kivi, and today I will be telling the story of my family’s beginnings in the United States of America.


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    “Smooth Rumble” by David Renda, Royalty Free Music Download (fesliyanstudios.com)


    Bibliography

    Khosravi, Shahram. “White Masks/Muslim Names: Immigrants and Name-Changing in Sweden.” Race & Class, vol. 53, no. 3, 15 Dec. 2011, pp. 65–80..

    Levin, Joanna. Bohemia in America, 1858–1920. Stanford University Press, 21 Oct. 2009.

    Prchal, Tim. The Bohemian Paradox: My Antonia and Popular Images of Czech Immigrants. Oxford University Press, 2004.

    Rippley, Vern J, and Robert J Paulson. German-Bohemians: The Quiet Immigrants. St Olaf College Press, 1995.

    Evan Kivi Oral history interview with Francis Ziegler. February 2023.

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