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SLOVAKS IN SERBIA FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE CULTURE SKLABINSKÁ, M., MOSNÁKOVÁ, K.: Slováci v Srbsku zaspektu kultúry. Novy Sad : Ústav pre kultúru vojvodinskÿch Slovákov, 2012. 399 p. ISBN 978-86-87947-06-1.
Mgr. art. Milina Sklabinská (born on the December 3rd, 1978 in Bácska Palanka in Vojvodina in Serbia) graduated from the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she successfully defended her thesis Cultural Policy Based on Facts - Building of Databases about the Culture of Slovaks in Vojvodina in December 2009. Nowadays, she works as director of the Institute for the Culture of Slovaks in Vojvodina in Novi Sad. She has actively participated in many projects for the support of culture such as organising conferences about Slovak music in Vojvodina in 2005 - 2012, organising the conference "Strategic Development of Culture of Slovaks in Serbia in 2006", participating in project of support for young artists called Young Talents in 2006 and Digitalisation of the Collection of Slovak Songs in the Museum of Vojvodina realised in 2007. She has actively participated in many other events. Katarina Mosnáková works as professional assistant at the Institute for Culture of Slovaks in Vojvodina in Novi Sad. She is successful singer, dancer, folk choreographer and teacher from Vojvodina.
M. Sklabinská and K. Mosnáková co-authored the reviewed book entitled Slovaks in Serbia from the Point of View of the Culture, which was published in the Slovak language. The book was published in Novi Sad in 2012 in the Slovak language thanks to the support of the autonomous government of Vojvodina and the Slovak agency for international development cooperation called SlovakAid. The book offers information about the history and the cultural life of Slovaks in Vojvodina. The authors also cooperated with other institutions from the Slovak Republic during writing of the book. The list of these institutions is published at the end of the book. The institutions mentioned in the book are, for instance, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra and Slovak National Library. The cooperation with these institutions and the use of many relevant book and internet resources offers evidence that the content of the book is of high quality.
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