Author : James S. Pula
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Polish Americans
ISBN : 9780805784381
The Polish American community has long been identified with three characteristics that the early immigrants brought with them to America, writes Pula: "an affection and concern for their ancestral homeland, a deep religious faith, and a sense of shared cultural values." Prominent among these values are family loyalty, a desire for property ownership, and pride in self-sufficiency.
Author : Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2003-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226644240
Chronicles the experiences of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods in Chicago to demonstrate how Poles created new communities in an attempt to preserve the customs of their homeland.
Author : Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 022681534X
Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
Author : Karen Majewski
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0821441116
During Poland’s century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland’s reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as they used their work to define and consolidate an essentially transnational ethnic identity that was both tied to Poland and independent of it. By introducing these varied and forgotten works into the scholarly discussion, Traitors and True Poles recasts the literary landscape to include the immigrant community’s own competing visions of itself. The conversation between Polonia’s creative voices illustrates how immigrants manipulated often difficult economic, social, and political realities to provide a place for and a sense of themselves. What emerges is a fuller picture of American literature, one vital to the creation of an ethnic consciousness. This is the first extended look at Polish-language fiction written by turn-of-the-century immigrants, a forgotten body of American ethnic literature. Addressing a blind spot in our understanding of immigrant and ethnic identity and culture, Traitors and True Poles challenges perceptions of a silent and passive Polish immigration by giving back its literary voice.
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890967256
An account of the ethnic Polish immigrants who left Upper Silesia, then part of Prussia, and settled in Texas in the 1850s. They formed the first organized Polish American communities in America.
Author : William Isaac Thomas
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781015643840
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Author : Jonathan Shea
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780738537658
Factory jobs in “the Hardware City of the World” began attracting Polish immigrants to New Britain in the 1890s. The Poles soon became the city’s largest ethnic group, centering their family, business, social, cultural, and spiritual life on Broad Street. Their Polonia was unparalleled in New England. Three parishes and dozens of organizations shared a strong commitment to Polish education, military service, political representation, and “Dozynki” and “Dzien Zaduszny” traditions. Continuing waves of immigration contributed to Polonia’s ceaseless self-renewal. The Polish Community of New Britain celebrates this magnetic vitality and cultural continuity with rare photographs drawn from family albums and local archives.
Author : Victoria Granacki
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439614989
Illustrating the first 75 years of Chicago's influential Polish neighborhood. Polish Downtown is Chicago's oldest Polish settlement and was the capital of American Polonia from the 1870s through the first half of the 20th century. Nearly all Polish undertakings of any consequence in the U.S. during that time either started or were directed from this part of Chicago's near northwest side. Chicago's Polish Downtown features some of the most beautiful churches in Chicago - St. Stanislaus Kostka, Holy Trinity and St. John Cantius - stunning examples of Renaissance and Baroque Revival architecture that form part of the largest concentration of Polish parishes in Chicago. The headquarters for almost every major Polish organization in America were clustered within blocks of each other and four Polish-language daily newspapers were published here. The heart of the photographic collection in this book is from the extensive library and archives of the Polish Museum of America, still located in the neighborhood today.
Author : Janusz Cisek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786422947
The end of World War II found a devastated Poland under Soviet occupation. Many Poles--those displaced to work camps in Germany, those in German concentration and P.O.W. camps, and those still in Poland made the decision to immigrate to the United States. Their journey, however, would not be easy. The rigors of the war had affected America as well, and immigration laws were strict. Fortunately, many Polish refugees received help from the Polish American Immigration and Relief Committee (PAIRC). Founded in 1947 to help Polish citizens displaced by World War II, the committee continued its work as the postwar period became the Cold War era and Poles continued to flee the communist regime. This study of the PAIRC and its work includes both the broad history of the committee and stories of specific individuals, which add detail and lend insight into the plight of the refugees and the importance of the advocacy that the committee provided. Drawing on information from committee archives and firsthand consultations with prominent members, this book covers such topics as American immigration law, aid for the Polish Republic, and the effect of political change in Poland itself. It also discusses how the downfall of the communist government transformed Poland into a country that opened its own arms to the world's refugees.
Author : Susan Gibson Mikos
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0870205900
In this all-new addition to the People of Wisconsin series, author Susan Mikos traces the history of Polish immigrants as they settled in America’s northern heartland. The second largest immigrant population after Germans, Poles put down roots in all corners of the state, from the industrial center of Milwaukee to the farmland around Stevens Point, in the Cutover, and beyond. In each locale, they brought with them a hunger to own land, a willingness to work hard, and a passion for building churches. Included is a first person memoir from Polish immigrant Maciej Wojda, translated for the first time into English, and historical photographs of Polish settlements around our state.
