TĖVIŠKĖS ŽIBURIAI (Lights of
the Homeland), Lithuanian-Canadian weekly published at Toronto
since1949. Its publication was begun by a group of post-World War II
immigrants who established the Lithuanian-Canadian Catholic Culture
Society for that purpose. Shortly thereafter the printing of the
weekly was taken over by the separately formed Žiburiai
(Lights) Press Co. In 1972 both organizations united to form the
Lithuanian-Canadian Roman Catholic Cultural Society Žiburiai,
the newspaper's publisher. The weekly devotes the largest part of its
coverage to topics revolving around Lithuania and Lithuanians abroad,
to their religious, cultural, organizational, social, and political
activity. Since the weekly has such a broad scope and has managed to
attract a great variety of diverse contributors, it is widely read not
only in Canada and the United States but also in other countries. Its
editor-inchief until 1961 was the historian Adolfas Šapoka. Since
then, the weekly has been edited by Rev. Pranas Gaida-Gaidamavičius,
assisted by Antanas Rinkūnas and Vytautas K. Tvardauskas. The
publishers have also brought out 25 books, in Lithuanian or English.
Text from the ENCYCLOPEDIA LITUANICA I-VI.
Boston, 1970-1978
