5 min
Burnt Toast: A Family History Family Stories
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- Historia
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.
Music
“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.
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.
Music
“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.
5 min