tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54449600566408726642024-03-05T12:55:21.620-08:00PAHA NewsMaja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-60777240035237002022020-06-11T15:16:00.000-07:002020-06-11T15:16:29.449-07:00Wiktor Labunski - A Polish American Pianist and Composer<br />
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Wiktor Labunski (Łabuński;1895-1974).</div>
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Many eminent Polish musicians settled in the United States
during the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Among them was the celebrated pianist,
composer and pedagogue Wiktor Labunski (Łabuński; 1895-1974). Born in a Polish family in
St. Petersburg in Russia and educated as a pianist at St. Petersburg
Conservatory, Labunski spent the post WWI years in Poland, teaching in Cracow
and Lviv and giving concerts as a virtuoso pianist. He married Wanda Młynarska,
the daughter of the eminent conductor Emil Młynarski. His wife’s sister Aniela
(Nela) was married to the celebrated virtuoso Artur Rubinstein. His older brother, Felix (Feliks, 1892-1979), was also a musician, composer, and conductor.</div>
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In 1928 Wiktor Labunski moved to the United States, initially
serving as Director of the Nashville Conservatory and later as Director of
Piano Studies at Bohlman School of Music in Memphis. At that time, he was
highly respected as a virtuoso pianist. The Curtis Institute of Music awarded
him in 1936 with an Honorary Doctorate, a title shared at that time only by two
world-class pianists: Sergei Rachmaninov and Joseph Hofmann. </div>
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In 1937 Labunski
relocated from Tennessee to Kansas City to serve as Director of Kansas City
Conservatory. Later, when the Conservatory was incorporated into the University
of Missouri, Labunski remained on faculty as Artist-in-Residence. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the years, through his tireless musical activism, Labunski
became a local celebrity. During his thirty-seven years as Kansas City resident
he gave locally over two hundred piano recitals. To mark the Polish-American
musician’s 70<sup>th</sup> birthday. Mayor of the city, Ilus W. Davis
proclaimed April the 14<sup>th</sup>, 1965 “Wiktor Labunski Day”. In 1971, Labunski
became the Honorary Member of Kansas City Musical Club. He died on January 26<sup>th</sup>,
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Today, very few people remember this remarkable musician
from Poland. After his death, Labunski’s personal archives, photos, autographs,
recordings, manuscripts of his compositions, as well as the manuscript of his
extended memoirs were all deposited in the Special Collections at the Miller
Nichols Library at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The materials at
UMKC contain several published and unpublished compositions, a great majority
of them works for the piano, many of them in manuscript. </div>
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Although composition
was not at the center of his daily activities, Labunski produced an impressive
body of high quality music which deserves examination and recognition. While he
was active throughout his life as a virtuoso romantic pianist, his compositions
indicate fascination with modernity and an acute awareness of contemporary
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Member of PAHA, Dr. Slawomir Dobrzanski, Professor of Piano
at Kansas State University, recently researched and recorded Wiktor Labunski’s
complete solo piano music, soon to be released as a CD by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Acte Prealable </i>label in Poland. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-28470526199804935462020-06-05T07:10:00.000-07:002020-06-05T07:10:18.066-07:00News from Polish Archives and Collections in America<b><span style="font-size: large;">Jerzy Skwarek's Polish American Photographic Collection at the Polish Museum of America</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Polish Museum of America in Chicago, Il, is pleased to announce adding a photographic collection by Jerzy “George” Skwarek to its permanent collection. Mr. Skwarek grew up in German-occupied Poland and spent his youth in Soviet-occupied Poland after WWII. After emigrating to the U.S. and settling in Chicago in 1971, he became a photographer and journalist documenting Polish American life. Since moving to Chicago, Skwarek worked as an author and travel guide; he published Polish-language travel books on the National Parks, Florida and an “Around The World” guide. As photographer and journalist for the Polish Daily News, Skwarek was given an opportunity to document major events in cultural and social life of Polish Americans.</span><br />
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Pope John Paul II’s Mass in Brighton Park 1979, Skwarek’s photo (Polish Museum of America, Chicago, Il.)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Polish Museum of America was established in 1935 as the “Museum and Archives of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America.” The first public display area opened on January 12, 1937 in a specially designed and constructed room within the headquarters building of the PRCUA. From that date the Museum’s collection and importance grew very rapidly and quickly gained autonomous status as “The Polish Museum of America” with its own governing board of directors. There were two events that caused the rapid expansion of the Museum’s collections. The first originated from the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, New York. Unfortunately, in September of 1939 Poland was invaded and war had gripped Europe. At the close of the World’s Fair, it became clear that the Polish exhibits could not return to Poland and their disposition was uncertain. In order to preserve at least a portion of the exhibits the directors of the Museum determined to purchase from the government of Poland nearly three fourths of the exhibits.The second significant event was the donation to the Museum of the personal possessions of Ignacy Jan Paderewski following his death in June 1941. Both Ignacy Paderewski and his sister, Antonina Paderewska Wilkonska, were enthusiastic supporters and generous sponsors of the Museum. Antonina, executor of Ignacy’s will, decided to donate these personal possessions to the Museum. In addition, the management of the Buckingham Hotel in New York City, where Ignacy spent the last months of his life, allowed Antonina to obtain the furnishings from the suite of rooms he had occupied.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More information about PMA: <a href="https://www.polishmuseumofamerica.org/about-pma/">https://www.polishmuseumofamerica.org/about-pma/</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Alfred Szebla's Historic Donation to the Pilsudski Institute</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In September 2019, The Pilsudski Institute was pleased to announce that a letter of King Sigismund I (1467-1548) from Vilnius, dated October 17, 1513 was donated to the Pisudski Institute. The letter, whose originality has already been pre-confirmed, is addressed to Jan Mikołajewicz Radziwiłł, land marshal in the then Duchy of Lithuania, and concerns the land of Bogusz Bohovalnowicz in the Słonim poviat. The letter is signed "Zygmunt". This unique document from the Jagiellonian era is a gift from Alfred Szebel, a famous collector from Chicago, who has been working with the Pilsudski Institute and supporting the Institute for many years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Jozef Pilsudski Institute of America was established on July 4, 1943 in New York City as a major research archival and science institution for research of modern history of Poland. It was founded by a group of Polish-American community leaders, prominent Polish statesmen, and political expatriates.The Institute houses a rich collection of primary sources covering the period from the 1863 Insurrection to the present day. The collection includes documents, photographs, films, posters, periodicals, books, personal memoirs of diplomats, and political and military leaders. The archival collection contains over one million documents, or 150 linear meters of shelf space. It is one of the largest and most important archives outside of Poland. The most important documents relate to the following subjects: the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1922, Marshal Jozef Piłsudski, the Silesian Uprisings of 1919-1921 and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Library contains about twenty thousand books and many rare manuscripts mainly related to the modern history of Poland. The Institute also houses 20,000 photographs covering the period from the beginning of twentieth century related to Polish and European political, military and cultural institutions, events, and personalities. The collection includes 2,450 maps from the second half of the nineteenth century through 1999. An art gallery with more than 240 items features oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and illustrations by such artists as Jan Matejko, Józef Chełmoński, Juliusz Kossak, Tadeusz Styka, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, Leon Wyczólkowski, Aleksander Gierymski, and Jacek Malczewski. <a href="https://www.pilsudski.org/en/about-us/history/609-history-of-the-institute">https://www.pilsudski.org</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">New Polish-American Composers' Collections at Polish Music Center, California</span></b><br />
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Manuscripts by Witold Lutoslawski at PMC since 1985.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Located at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the Polish Music Center collects items pertaining to Polish music and culture. The PMC Archives began when the Polish Manuscript Collection was established in 1985 with a gift of five original manuscripts from Witold Lutosławski (with Mi-Parti, Paroles tissées, Preludes and Fugue, and Novelette). Works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Tadeusz Baird, Joanna Bruzdowicz, Marta Ptaszyńska and Stanisław Skrowaczewski created the core of the collection, enlarged in 2000-2002 by gifts from over 30 Polish composers (Rafał Augustyn, Zbigniew Bujarski, Krzysztof Knittel, Zygmunt Krauze, Hanna Kulenty, Szymon Laks, Roman Maciejewski, Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar, Krzysztof Meyer, Krzysztof Penderecki, Elżbieta Sikora, Edward Sielicki, Aleksander Tansman, Romuald Twardowski, Tadeusz Wielecki, Lidia Zielińska, and many others). Recent additions include the Ludomir Różycki Collection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> From the core of the Manuscript Collection, the PMC Archival Collection has grown with the addition of full collections held by several important composers. Encompassing not only original musical manuscripts, but also rare printed scores, letters, photographs, books, personal items and much more, these collections are:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henryk Wars [Henry Vars] Collection (donated by the Vars family in 2005) – featuring the composer’s newly discovered symphonic music</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Zygmunt and Luisa Stojowski Collection (donated by Alfred and Henry Stojowski in 2006) – featuring Zygmunt Stojowski’s manuscripts and first editions of scores, as well as articles, personal notes and a portion of his private library</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bronisław Kaper Collection (donated by his former agent in 2007) – featuring his film scores and popular songs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paderewski Archive—the Paso Robles Collection (donated by related persons and collectors in 2008) – featuring items relating to his travels in the US, visits in California, and his life in Switzerland, illustrated by rare photographs, documents and personal memorabilia</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Roman Ryterband Collection (donated by the Ryterband and Eisele families in 2016) – featuring manuscript scores, drafts of compositions, correspondence, photographs, artwork and personal items</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Polish Room at SUNY Buffalo's Lockwood Library</span></b><br />
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The Polish Room, room 517 in the State University of New York at Buffalo’s Lockwood Library, is open by appointment to the general public as well as to the UB community. The collection includes over 12,000 volumes. Its website notes: “Its strengths are in literature and history, but the genealogical literature and the language sections are very strong for a collection of this size.<br />
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In addition to the book collection, the Polish Room possesses a number of unique materials, which include 21 manuscripts of the Polish kings from the 16th to 18th centuries, by Sigismund August (1548-1572), Stefan Batory (1576-1586), Sigismund Third Vasa (1587-1632), Ladislaus Fourth Vasa (1632-1648), John Casimir (1648-1668), John Third Sobieski (1674-1696), August Second of Saxony (1697-1733) and <br />
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Stanislaus August Poniatowski (1764-1795). The collection also holds letters and other signed documents of important people of the 20th century, including writers such as: Stefan żeromski, Maria Konopnicka, and Maria Dąbrowska. Other items include hundreds of video recordings, some Solidarność documents; 135 underground press books on microfiche, along other microfische documents.<br />
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Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-22098849829894025642020-04-12T23:04:00.000-07:002020-04-12T23:04:49.970-07:00New Books on Polish Emigration and Diaspora <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Poles in Illinois - edited by John Radzilowski and Ann Hetzel Gunkel</b></div>
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Illinois boasts one of the most visible concentrations of Poles in the United States. Chicago is home to one of the largest Polish ethnic communities outside Poland itself. Yet no one has told the full story of our state’s large and varied Polish community—until now. Poles in Illinois is the first comprehensive history to trace the abundance and diversity of this ethnic group throughout the state from the 1800s to the present.<br />
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Authors John Radzilowski and Ann Hetzel Gunkel look at family life among Polish immigrants, their role in the economic development of the state, the working conditions they experienced, and the development of their labor activism. Close-knit Polish American communities were often centered on parish churches but also focused on fraternal and social groups and cultural organizations. Polish Americans, including waves of political refugees during World War II and the Cold War, helped shape the history and culture of not only Chicago, the “capital” of Polish America, but also the rest of Illinois with their music, theater, literature, food.<br />
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With forty-seven photographs and an ample number of extensive excerpts from first-person accounts and Polish newspaper articles, this captivating, highly readable book illustrates important and often overlooked stories of this ethnic group in Illinois and the changing nature of Polish ethnicity in the state over the past two hundred years. Illinoisans and Midwesterners celebrating their connections to Poland will treasure this rich and important part of the state’s history.<br />
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<a href="http://www.siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-3724-8">http://www.siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-3724-8</a><br />
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<b>How Languages Saved Me: A Polish Story of Survival </b></div>
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In the growing repertoire of "post-memory" books written by children and grandchildren of Polish survivors of WWII— deportations, exile, concentration camps, persecutions—"How Languages Saved Me" (Koehler Books, 2019) takes the place of honor. Written by Stefanie Nauman, Professor of Management at the University of the Pacific, and based on unfinished memoirs of her grandfather, Tadeusz Haska, as well as many other primary sources, documents, memoirs, letters, etc., this book is a story of survival and resilience. It would make a great mandatory reading for high school and college classes in the U.S., established to teach American students about immigrant history.<br />
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This slim volume (127 pp.) contains great lessons about responsibility, hard-work, dedication and ingenuity of an emigre to America who survived the war in German-occupied Poland, and had to escape prosecution by Soviet-run government of the Polish People's Republic in 1947. In a notable stunt, he smuggled his wife to Sweden in a coffin! They lived in Sweden for a while, but in search of a better future, they decided to emigrate to America. A talented linguist who spoke nine languages, Haska received a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley and taught at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA.<br />
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The value of this well-researched-and-written book stems from its factual content, portraying a man of outstanding virtues and talents, an exemplar of surviving adversity, without becoming a victim, resentful and enraged at the world that treated him so unfairly. Illustrated with family photos, documents and translations of letters, this book is a valuable contribution to the fields of immigration studies, Polish-American history, and the history of Poland. <br />
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The Polish Army Camp Kosciuszko, Niagara Camp, 1917-1919: The Newspaper Columns of Elizabeth Ascher, St. Catharines Standard, 1917-1920. Edited by Stan Skrzeszewski<br />
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This volume presents a chronology of life at the Polish Army Camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake based on the news items and columns which appeared in the St. Catharines Standard from 1917-1920. St. Catharines is the largest city in the Niagara area on the Canadian side. The Standard was the major newspaper in the area, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ascher, was their correspondent reporting from Niagara-on-the-Lake. Ascher wrote almost daily columns which present an amazing detailed day-to-day report on what was happening at the camp and describes conditions in the camp and in the town. They provide a remarkable snapshot of the life of Polish soldiers in Niagara Camp from the establishment of the camp in 1917 to its closure in 1919 and the Polish relief efforts and pilgrimages to Niagara-on-the-Lake which followed.<br />
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This work speaks to topics ranging from accommodations, special visitors, dances and to baseball. Many of the volunteers at the camp were having the time of their lives. Mrs. Ascher was nicknamed the "Godmother of the Polish Army" and was awarded the Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1922, the Haller Medal in 1923, Miecze Hallerowskie in 1926 and a life time membership in the Polish Army Veteran's Association. The book (219 pages) is available for $25.00 plus shipping. Order by sending an email to Stan Skrzeszewski, stan874@gmail.com.<br />
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In the aftermath of World War II, over 250,000 Polish soldiers and their families ended up in Great Britain – these were the troops fighting alongside the Allies and led by Gen. Władysław Anders. In 1947, the British government decided to disperse them among the Common-wealth countries and passed The Resettlement Act. More than 4,500 Polish veterans were resettled in Canada as farm workers; 750 of these men were accepted by the province of Alberta. They were paid 25% less than the prevailing wages, but managed to rebuild their lives, and create a lively émigré community. Polish War Veterans in Alberta examines how these former soldiers came to experience their new country and its sometimes-harsh postwar realities.<br />
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This compelling work of social history is brought to life through the words and stories of four veterans, whose remembrances provide an intimate first-hand look at a moment of Canada’s past that is at risk of being forgotten. Published by the University of Alberta Press in 2019, the book was based on oral histories of veterans, such as Władysław Niewinski, Zbigniew Rogowski, and Anatol Nieumierzycki. It was written by Aldona Jaworska who was born and raised in Poland and came to Canada as a refugee in 1990, to settle in Calgary.<br />
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These notices about new books are from PAHA Newsletter Vol. 77 No. 1, Spring 2020Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-43244988644811495722020-03-13T11:40:00.000-07:002020-03-14T22:53:33.520-07:00Send Family Memoirs and Letters to Polish Heritage Collection in Connecticut <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MEMOIRS PROJECT<br />
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Polish Migrant Memoirs and Letters: Documenting the World War II Diaspora<br />
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With the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, the Polish nation faced an overwhelming experience of displacement and dislocation. As a consequence, close to six million Poles found themselves outside Poland's new borders; at the end of the war, nearly 500,000 Poles remained in exile, scattered over many countries on all continents. About 140,000 Polish immigrants -- political exiles, civilian refugees, displaced persons, former soldiers, slave laborers, and prisoners of concentration camps -- settled permanently in the United States.<br />
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With this war generation passing, it becomes ever more urgent to tell their story, to preserve the record of their experience and make it available to the next generations. The Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) is a professional organization international in scope and in existence since 1943, whose goal is scholarly research and promotion of the study of the history and culture of the Polish American diaspora.<br />
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PAHA is alarmed by the disappearance of documentation on the history of the World War II and immediate postwar wave of Polish migration to the United States. Recognizing the contributions of Polish migrants to Polish American as well as American history, PAHA appeals to the members of the exile generation, their families, and their organizations to deposit their existing records in archival and research institutions.<br />
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To facilitate the preservation effort, the Polish American Historical Association is inaugurating a new project titled “Polish Migrant Memoirs and Letters: Documenting the World War II Diaspora.” In collaboration with the Central Connecticut State University’s Library (Polish Heritage Collection) and Stanislaus A. Blejwas Chair in Polish and Polish American History, the Polish American Librarians’ Association, PAHA is announcing search in the United States for the following documents among members of the WWII Diaspora in North America: memoirs (published and unpublished); diaries; letters; interviews and photos. The war and immediate post-war period is the main focus of the search, however, we are interested in the entire life of these migrants, not just the war years.<br />
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The documents, along with the deed of gift, should be sent to:<br />
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Attention: Ewa Wolynska, Head, Special Collections<br />
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1615 Stanley St.<br />
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PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO CURRENT UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES, DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 2021 MEETING HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 1, 2020.<br />
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The Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) will hold its 78th Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA as part of the 135th yearly meeting of the American Historical Association from January 7-10, 2021.<br />
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We invite scholars who study the Polish-American communities or the greater Polish diaspora as well as those who deal with migration, ethnic, and regional studies and would like to join discussions related (but not limited) to the following topics:<br />
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• Polish-Americans and their contribution to the civic, institutional, and political life of the U.S.<br />
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• The changing understanding of the ethnic heritage<br />
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• Identity politics and the role of migrations in the past and contemporary world<br />
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• Immigration to the USA and state building in Poland and in the United States<br />
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• Transatlantic migrations to the Americas and state building in Poland and migrant communities in North and South America<br />
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• Heritage, legacy, and a new understanding of the role that ethnicities play in the modern world<br />
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• Polish Americans vs. other ethnic groups in a comparative perspective on both American continents and in Europe<br />
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We invite proposals for sessions as well as individual papers related to all aspects of the Polish-American experience (in history, sociology, literature, art, music, etc.) on both American continents. We are committed to putting together well-researched and argued proposals in panels consisting of 3 participants with commentators. Please note that membership in PAHA is a requirement for inclusion in the program as a presenter.<br />
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Individual participants should include the following information when submitting a proposal:<br />
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- Paper title(s) and short abstracts (of no more than 300 words)<br />
- Biographical paragraph (up to 250 words)<br />
- Please indicate if you are willing to serve as a chair and/or a discussant for a session<br />
- Also, note if you need A/V.<br />
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Session organizers should include the following information when submitting a panel proposal and session organizers:<br />
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- Paper/Session abstract(s) (up to 300/500 words)<br />
- E-mail address for each participant<br />
- Biographical paragraph (up to 250 words) for each participant<br />
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Please be advised that it is not always possible for PAHA to provide A/V equipment for all sessions due to the high mandatory rental fee from AHA. Most likely we will try to gather all presentations that require A/V equipment in one day. It is therefore important for the presenters to indicate their need for A/V when submitting their proposal.<br />
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All presenters are encouraged to consider submission of their papers for publication in PAHA's peer-reviewed journal, <i>Polish American Studies:</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During a well-attended Awards Ceremony held at the elegant ballroom of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, on Saturday, January 4, 2020, the following Awards were presented by PAHA's President Dr. Anna Muller and PAHA's Vice President, Dr. Marta Cieslak, assisted by Dr. Pien Versteegh, PAHA's Executive Director.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ceremony started from a welcome by Marek Skulimowski, President and Executive Director of the Kosciuszko Foundation, expressing delight about this renewed collaboration and hope for a variety of joint projects between PAHA and the KF in the future. Prof. Neal Pease, First Vice President of PAHA, discussed a history of the collaboration between PAHA and the Kosciuszko Foundation, and Prof. Anna Muller presented PAHA's achievements in the past year, and the role of PAHA Awards and Awardees in Polish and Polish American culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oskar Halecki Prize recognizes an important book or monograph on the Polish experience in the United States. The award was presented to Grażyna J. Kozaczka, <i>Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction </i>(Ohio University Press, 2019)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kozaczka's book investigates the construction of Polish American womanhood in the fiction by Polish American authors of the second half of the 20th and early 21th centuries. It demonstrates how Polish American women writers have responded to the gender expectations of their communities, societies, and nations and how their heroines sought empowerment. One of the reviews calls it a unique scholarly work that "positions ethnic gender construction and performance at an intersection of social class, race, and sex."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Swastek Prize is awarded annually for the best article published during the previous year in a given volume of <i>Polish American Studies,</i> the journal of the Polish American Historical Association. This award, established in 1981, is named in honor of Rev. Joseph V. Swastek (1913-1977), the editor of the Polish American Studies for many years, and a past president of PAHA. It was presented to Stephen M. Leahy for his article “George Wallace and the Myth of the White Ethnic Backlash in Milwaukee, 1958-1964” (PAS 75, no. 2, Autumn 2018)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While the PAS Editorial Board members valued all of the contributions to volume 75, Stephen M. Leahy’s article “George Wallace and the Myth of the White Ethnic Backlash in Milwaukee, 1958-1964” (PAS 75, no. 2, Autumn 2018) has been selected for the Swastek Award for the best article in the 2018 volume of <i>Polish American Studies</i>. Leahy's article is a timely and careful analysis of the heated political atmosphere during the Civil Rights era. Leahy effectively questions the sweeping thesis that working-class Polish Americans were particularly receptive to Wallace's racist message in Milwaukee, WI. Leahy’s article is a fine example of meticulous research, which challenges a long-established opinion by cross-checking and triangulating a variety of sources. It offers a compelling political microhistory and it should have an impact on the historiography of race relations in twentieth-century America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Skalny Civic Achievement Awards honor individuals or groups who advance PAHA's goals of promoting research and awareness of the Polish American experience and/or have made significant contributions to Polish or Polish American community and culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">TEOFIL LACHOWICZ is a historian, archivist, journalist, and teacher with a long list of projects that all contribute to the popularization and preservation of Polish and Polish American experience in the US. Mr. Lachowicz is a historian and history teacher but his work includes also a wide variety of activities in the Polonia community. He has been an archivist at the Polish Army Veterans Association in America since 1998 and is also editor of the monthly "Weteran." He is an author of several works on military Polish American history and has also contributed to Polish American newspapers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr. JOHN GUZLOWSKI, a former PAHA Board Member and Awardee, has published in a wide range of genres: poetry, prose, literary criticism, reviews, fiction and nonfiction. Born in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II, Guzlowski came to America with his family as a Displaced Person in 1951. His parents were Polish slave laborers in Nazi Germany during the war. In much of his work, Guzlowski remembers and honors the experiences and ultimate strength of these survivors. His critically acclaimed 2016 volume of poetry <i>Echoes of Tattered Tongues</i> is as beautiful as it is harrowing. He has also been able to weave the Polish American experience in his 2018 novel <i>Suitcase Charlie.</i> In his very frequent public speaking engagements with audiences of all sorts (academic, non-academic, all ages), he is promoting the experience of Polish immigrants in the post-WWII years and the generations that followed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">SPENCER HOWE, STANISLAW POSZWA, GEOFFREY GYRISCO and MICHAEL RETKA are a team of scholars and activists spanning MN and WI who conduct research and community engagement efforts regarding the work of early 20th century Polish-American architect VICTOR CORDELLA, active in Minnesota.
Fr. Spencer Howe and Fr. Stanislaw Poszwa represent the Holy Cross Church in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Geoffrey Gyrisco is a resident of Madison, WI and
Michael Retka resides in Little Falls, MN. Over the past two years they have come together to document Cordella’s extensive
body of architectural design in Minnesota and Wisconsin and assess his lasting impact and influence on
two dozen mostly Polish Roman and Eastern Rite Catholic communities. Cordella was a
graduate of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts who immigrated to the US in 1893 and was in active architectural practice between the 1890s and mid-1930s. The list of the team’s achievements includes preservation, popularization, and academic efforts that highlight, investigates, and brings to the general and academic audiences Cordella’s legacy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">AMICUS POLONIAE AWARD FOR DR. NORMAN KELKER AND JOANN FALLETTA</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Amicus Poloniae Award recognizes significant contributions enhancing knowledge of Polish and Polish-American heritage by individuals not belonging to the Polish-American community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr. NORMAN E. KELKER has had a long career as a microbiologist. For many years now Dr. Kelker has been an active member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and a supporter of the Kosciuszko foundation. His interests in history and family history resulted in his many presentations. Most recently, Dr. Kelker presented his research on Ernestine Rose, a Polish Born Leader of the American Suffrage Movement and Herbert Hoover’s support for Poland. Dr. Kelker is a long-time friend of Poland and Polonia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The second Amicus Poloniae Awardee was JOANN FALLETTA. Ms. JoAnn Falletta, Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra received the award for continuous support of Polish and Polish American composers and musicians. Falletta has led numerous projects and events that showcased Polish and Polish American composers as well as invited Polish musicians to play with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">James Pula Distinguished Service Award is given to a member of PAHA who has rendered valuable and sustained service to the organization.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr. Iwona Korga, Executive Director of the Pilsudski Institute was nominated by several individuals and an excerpt from one nomination reads as follows: "For years she has been promoting Polish history and culture though both research and public programming as Executive Director of the Piłsudski Institute and more recently as a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union." Dr Ewa Hoffman Jędruch, who is a Board Member of the Pilsudski Institute received the award on behalf of Dr. Korga.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ZURAWSKI PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK OR ARTICLE ON POLISH AMERICANS ON SCREEN</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Joseph W. Zurawski Prize is awarded for the best article or book published on the topic of Polish American screen images in films or television presented to audiences in the United States and released by American companies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sonia Caputa for "Stereotypes of Polish American Women in American TV Series" from volume Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History, (ed. by Rafał Borysławski, Justyna Jajszczok, Jakub Wolff, Alicja Bemben), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">YOUNG SCHOLAR TRAVEL GRANTS FOR AVRAMCHUK and PUCHALSKI</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Young Scholar Travel Grant ($500) supports a graduate student's/young scholar's participation in the PAHA upcoming annual conference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> OLEKSANDR AVRAMCHUK is a Ph.D. student at the University of Warsaw. He is currently writing a
doctoral dissertation on the vision of Ukraine in Polish émigré historical thought in the United States during the Cold War. The scope of his academic interests ranges from Polish-Ukrainian relations to modern nation-building processes in Central and Eastern Europe. He is an author of several scholarly articles and essays on Polish, Ukrainian and Russian historical thought in the 20 th century, as well as the American attitudes toward Eastern Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">DR. PIOTR PUCHALSKI of the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time of award. Dr. Piotr Puchalski was born in Warsaw, Poland and moved to New York City at the age of thirteen. He attended high school in Brooklyn and earned Bachelor’s degrees in European Studies and French from New York University. When Piotr applied for this award, he was still a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since then, not only did he defend his doctoral dissertation but also accepted the position of assistant professor of history at the Institute of History and Archival Studies of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, where he currently lives.</span><br />
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Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-12839072195871124832019-11-07T12:25:00.000-08:002019-12-01T22:10:57.794-08:00Program of PAHA's 77th Annual Meeting in New York, January 3-6, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PAHA’s 77th annual meeting will be held in New York as part of the 134th meeting of the American Historical Association on January 3–5, 2020 (Friday to Sunday).<br />
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PAHA Chair of the Program Committee: Anna Muller, Ph.D.; anmuller@umich.edu, University of Michigan-Dearborn<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2020 Annual Meeting Program </span></b><br />
77th Annual Meeting of Polish American Historical Association<br />
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Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Harlem Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)<br />
<b>SESSION 1: BOOK PANEL: AMERICAN WARSAW: THE RISE, FALL, AND REBIRTH OF POLISH CHICAGO BY DOMINIC A. PACYGA</b><br />
Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee<br />
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⨀ Ewa Barczyk, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee;<br />
⨀ David A. Gerber, State University of New York at Buffalo;<br />
⨀ James Pula, Purdue University Northwest<br />
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Friday, January 3, 2020: 3:30 PM-6:30 .<br />
Midtown Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)<br />
PAHA BOARD MEETING. Chair: Anna Müller, President<br />
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM<br />
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)<br />
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<b>SESSION 2: SEARCHING FOR A VOICE, SEARCHING FOR A PLACE</b><br />
Chair: Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock<br />
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⨀ The Polish Rifle: Connie Wisniewski and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee;<br />
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⨀ Helena Modjeska’s Bilingual Morality Tale of 1896 - Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press;<br />
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⨀ "There Are No Capitalists among Our Kind”: State, Nation, and Class in Dymytry Vyslotsky’s Interwar Lemkovyna - Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College;<br />
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⨀ Stanisław Gutowski: America’s Secret Weapon in World War I - James Pula, Purdue University Northwest<br />
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Comment: Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock<br />
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM<br />
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)<br />
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<b>SESSION 3: GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY</b><br />
Chair: Piotr Puchalski, Assistant Professor, Pedagogical University, Kraków<br />
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⨀ The Polish Democratic Society and the Enthusiasts: Conflict and Cooperation in 1840s Poznań - Natalie Cornett, Brandeis University;<br />
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⨀ Education in Exile: The Committee for the Education of Poles in Great Britain, 1947–54: The Importance of Education as the Route to Civic Integration - Agata Błaszczyk, Polish University Abroad (PUNO);<br />
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⨀ An Immigrant Voice in Canada: Czas Polish Press Ltd - Magda Blackmore, University of Manitoba;<br />
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⨀ Zygmunt Haupta's Broadcasting Work at "Voice of America," 1951–60 - Barbara Krupa, Stanford University. Comment: Piotr Puchalski, Pedagogical University, Kraków<br />
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM<br />
Midtown Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)<br />
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<b>SESSION 4: NEW AND OLD HOME: MOBILITY AND IDENTITY</b><br />
Chair: Wiktor Marzec, R. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, UW<br />
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⨀ Looking at Both Sides of the Pond: Kashubian Fishermen Families from the Hel Peninsula, Poland and Jones Island, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Anne Gurnack, University of Wisconsin–Parkside;<br />
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⨀ Mobility Patterns of Polish Migrants in the US, 1900–40: A Comparison between Pennsylvania and Illinois - Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University;<br />
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⨀ Going Home? Poles’ Return Migrations from Chicago to Poland - Hubert Izienicki, Purdue University Northwest;<br />
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⨀ Explaining Serfdom: Post-1945 Historians on Eastern Europe - Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw<br />
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⨀ Comment: Wiktor Marzec, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw<br />
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM<br />
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)<br />
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<b>SESSION 5: POWER AND DISEMPOWERMENT IN THE LIVES OF POLISH AMERICAN WOMEN</b><br />
Chair: Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw<br />
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⨀ The Dangerous Intersection of Ethnicity and Sexuality in Migrant Fiction - Grażyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College;<br />
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⨀ Between Assimilation and Resistance: The Transatlantic Modernity of Polish Rural Women - Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock;<br />
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⨀ Mining “The Twenty” via Memory Work: Reinterpreting Story, Rewriting Identity - Kristina Kwacz, Empire State College, State University of New York.<br />
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⨀ Comment: Anna Sosnowska, University of Warsaw<br />
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM<br />
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Saturday, January 4, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM<br />
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Chair: Anna Müller, University of Michigan–Dearborn<br />
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⨀ Interconnections and Parallels between Muslims and Polish Catholics in Hamtramck - Alisa Perkins, Western Michigan University;<br />
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⨀ Moving Out, Moving Back, Moving Over: 21st-Century Polonia in Hamtramck - Karen Majewski, University of Michigan;<br />
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⨀ Hamtramck, Poletown, and Bangladesh Avenue: Exploring the Intersection of Communal Autonomies in the Formation of Diaspora Identities - Sunanda Summadar, Wayne County Community College<br />
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Comment: Anna Müller, University of Michigan–Dearborn<br />
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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM<br />
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Chair: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee<br />
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⨀ Poland’s Colonial Aspirations as a Diplomatic Instrument, 1932–39 - Piotr Puchalski, Pedagogical University, Kraków;<br />
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⨀ From Revolution to Nation: Popular Unrest in Russian Poland, 1907–18 - Wiktor Marzec, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw;<br />
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⨀ Reconsidering the Christian View of the Jews in the Reality of the Holocaust - Rachel Brenner, University of Wisconsin–Madison;<br />
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⨀ A Patriot, a Soldier, a Confederate: The Life of Gaspard Tochman, 1799–1880 - Piotr Derengowski, University of Gdańsk<br />
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Comment: Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee<br />
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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM<br />
Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)<br />
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Chair: Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College<br />
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⨀ Martha, Anna, and Pierogi: Mainstreaming Polish Identity through Polish Food - Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University; With Illustrations by Zygmunt Iwanowski:<br />
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⨀ Recovering a Polish American Artist of America’s Golden Age of Illustration - Jill Noel Walker Gonzalez, La Sierra University;<br />
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⨀ Polish Emigrant Composer Karol Rathaus and His Work in Europe and in the USA - Mateusz Strzelecki, Academy of Music in Łódź<br />
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Comment: Nicolas K. Kupensky, Bowdoin College<br />
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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM<br />
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Hudson Room (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)<br />
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SESSION 10: POLAND/POLONIA: GREENPOINT AND BEYOND. Chair: Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University<br />
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⨀ Relational and Material Aspects of Transnational Home Making by Migrants from Poland to the US: A Cross-Generational Context - Karolina Nikielska-Sekula, University of South-Eastern Norway;<br />
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⨀ Seeing Greenpoint Change - Judith DeSena, St. John’s University;<br />
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⨀ Teaching How Krakow Changed, Visually - Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.<br />
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Comment: Pien Versteegh, Maastricht University<br />
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Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM<br />
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<b>SESSION 11: IN THE SHADOW OF YALTA: POLISH ÉMIGRÉS AND THE SHAPING OF THE “INTELLECTUAL COLD WAR,” 1945–89</b><br />
Chair: Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University<br />
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⨀ Polish Cold War Émigrés as a Part of Institutionalized American Sovietology: The State of Research - Sławomir Łukasiewicz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and IPN;<br />
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⨀ Émigré “Scholarly Offensive”: Polish Historians, Ukrainian Studies, and the Making of the “Intellectual Cold War” - Oleksandr Avramchuk, University of Warsaw;<br />
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⨀ My Stormy Life Has Shaped It for Me: Jan Sawka—His Life and Work as a Record of Perturbations of History - Anna Rudek-Śmiechowska, Polish Institute of World Art Studies.<br />
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This little elephant traveled with me from England where I was born to America in the early 1950's and has remained with me ever since as a reminder of the ordeals that my parents and sister endured during World War II. Its origin began in the early 1940's in the Middle East where my father had been stationed with the newly formed Polish Army under General Władysław Anders. In England, my mother sewed it by hand from my father's woolen army coat that the British had supplied to the newly forming Polish army.</div>
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After getting out of the USSR--the labor camp, the tortuous back and forth journey across the southern USSR, my mother and sister found temporary refuge in Tehran. They had met my Polish Army officer father during that whole turmoil, first at the Polish Army camp in Tatishchevo in 1941, then in Dzhalal-Abad, and eventually in England.</div>
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My mother, Ja<span style="box-sizing: inherit;">nina Ślarzyńska Zimmerman Solecka, and my sister, Mira Zimmerman,</span> spent the remainder of the war in India so elephants were a daily presence in their lives. In 1947, they left India for England as going back to Poland was not a good option for them. Life in England was difficult for Poles like us with few material resources, but my mother was very resourceful and a talented seamstress, so she took my father's old army wool coat and a toy elephant pattern published in the local newspaper and made this toy elephant for me. My father mounted it on a wooden platform with wooden wheels that he had made and tied a straw basket to the top, which he filled with colorful M&M candy. I remember strolling with the elephant pulling it along and sneaking candy when I visited my mother in the hospital where she was recovering from pneumonia, shortly before we came to America. The elephant was packed up for me but without the wheels. </div>
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I didn't really like it at first since the material was very course so the elephant was mostly on display in my bedroom, but it survived all these years and it has been on display in my home ever since. It reminds me of my mother and her frugality and all the sacrifices she made for me after surviving such a brutal journey and having been forced to leave her home in Poland, which today is Belarus.</div>
Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-57666770568685984782019-08-14T16:19:00.001-07:002019-10-01T22:03:08.208-07:00A Story from our Website - A Portrait of Marszalek by Barbara Rylko Bauer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Anna Muller writes: "In the collection of objects included on this site, PAHA hopes to engage with the history of Polish Americans, but also to reflect on the phenomenology of objects. The objects tell the stories of people who traveled across the Atlantic. Most of the objects were to help them fulfill their dreams of remaking their lives anew far away from home. While they symbolize the importance of the home left behind, they also testify to the Polish immigrants’/people’s efforts to imbue a new home with significance. One of the first stories that grabbed our hearts – the story that is included on the website – was the story of a photo from a grandfather’s passport – a terrific example of how some objects, with time, take on a separate life from the one that served their creation; and how many of them now play a role in the lives of future generations. The relationship between us and objects is fluid – they affect our lives, but we also change their purpose. The passport was a tool that helped the grandfather’s transition, but with time, for the younger generations, it became the symbol of that transition, and also a link to the past. Photos of objects send a message of the power of human agency, but also of an individual’s daily life – daily gestures of care that nourish the connection with the past for the future."</i></div>
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There are almost 20 stories on the site. <a href="https://polishamericanstudies.org/text/38/objects-that-speak.html" style="background-color: transparent;">https://polishamericanstudies.org/text/38/objects-that-speak.html</a></div>
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We selected a story about Marshall Pilsudski to coincide with the anniversary of the Miracle on the Vistula, the famous battle defending Warsaw from the invading Soviet troops. Polish soldiers won the battle in August 1920 and preserved the independence of the newly restored country that was, partly, under Russian control since 1795 to 1918.</div>
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I remember this photograph of Marszałek Józef Piłsudski from my earliest childhood, although I can’t recall where it sat in our first home, on Chopin Avenue in southwest Detroit.</div>
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<span style="color: #292b2c; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The photograph I’ve attached is from our second home on Detroit’s northeast side, on Rogge Street. It sat in the spare room, on a bookcase that was filled with books from Poland (see below). And after my mother moved to Grand Rapids in 1984, she brought the bookcase and the photograph with her. While I never asked her about the significance of it for her, I think that it represented both a symbolic connection to the Poland of her past and a tangible reminder of her husband/my father, who died in 1969 at the age of 74.</span></div>
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My parents were both deported forcibly from Poland during WWII. My mother, as a political prisoner, spent 15 months in various Nazi concentration and slave labor camps. My father, as a Colonel in the Polish army, spent the entire war as a German POW, in Oflag VIIA in Murnau. Thus, at the time of liberation from their respective camps, they had nothing from their former life in Poland. And since they emigrated from Germany without first returning to Poland, there were no objects accompanying them from that past life.</div>
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This photo-portrait must have been an important reminder of that Polish past, especially for my father. He had enlisted as a young man at the start of WWI with the Polish Legions of Józef Piłsudski, and after finishing his officer’s training in 1918, he served in the artillery during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. Piłsudski was an important figure in his life, and his vision for a more pluralistic Poland was supported by both of my parents.</div>
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This history took on much greater significance for me, as I worked on a memoir/biography of my mother, which eventually became the book,<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Polish-Doctor-Nazi-Camps-Imprisonment/dp/0806151919" target="_blank"> <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps</em>: <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">My Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade</em> </a>(U. of Oklahoma Press, 2014). In the process of researching the historical context of her narrative, I gained a greater understanding of Polish history and a better appreciation of my father's past, which I knew very little about because I was just 19 years old when he died.</div>
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Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-65834052007285679502019-08-02T11:06:00.003-07:002019-08-02T11:06:46.369-07:00Call for Submissions to PAHA Newsletter, Orzeszkowa's "Marta" and Bukowczyk on PAHA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Chicago Polish Parade, May 2019, Photo by Andrzej Mikolajczyk</span></div>
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PAHA members and friends are invited to submit ideas for short articles, book blurbs and reviews, conference announcements and reports, memoirs and interviews (all items up to 500 words with two photos), for publication in the PAHA Newsletter (ISSN 0739-9766). Send your ideas and submissions the Newsletter Editor, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, maja@polishamericanstudies.org add any questions and suggestions regarding the newsletters, as well as any information you would like to have included there. The deadline for the Fall 2019 issue is August 31.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. John J. Bukowczyk with PAHA President, Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz. Photo by Marcin Szerle.</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">By John J. Bukowczyk </span></b></div>
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<i>Revised excerpts from “The Polish American Historical Association—Its Place, Role, and Legacy within the Field of U.S. Ethnic History,” keynote address given at the 75th Anniversary Conference of the Polish American Historical Association at Loyola University in Chicago, September 7, 2018.</i><br />
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First, PAHA, with its long history, has been an essential structural element in the organizational life of Polonia as an American ethnic group. Sociologists would tell us that such “institutional completeness” is important for the vitality of ethnic groups and their survival; and a historical society, encouraging the preservation of historical memory, is a vital part of that “completeness.” Second, for a segment of Polish-American society (many of us I am sure would attest), PAHA has promoted a version of Polish ethnic identity, the alternative to which might have been (for many of us—scholars, teachers, intellectuals, professionals) marginality within or more complete and ethnically anonymous assimilation and absorption into our respective professions, institutions, disciplines, and neighborhoods and into the larger American society. Third, through its efforts at partaking in the organizational, institutional, and intellectual activities of the historical profession in the United States, PAHA has advanced that perennial quest by members of one of America’s historically more marginalized and maligned white ethnic groups for respect and recognition. In this sense, the lay Polish-American scholars who steered PAHA in recent decades have shared much in common with the nuns and priests who went before them; all have been, in a sense, emissaries, missionaries, and flag-bearers.<br />
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The Polish American Historical Association of recent decades has been especially significant within Polish America, I would argue, for modeling ways to “be Polish” in modern and post-modern American society and the globalizing contemporary world. In practice it has erected a proverbial “big tent” of Polishness, welcoming members of all political opinions and ethno-cultural or ethno-religious backgrounds and affiliations. The vision of Polishness that in recent years I think it has promoted has revolved around a belief that Polish Americans are united not by what they do, or how they think, or how they “perform” ethnicity—and especially not by any (racialist) belief that they share some fictive common “blood”—but by their shared commitment to advancing the study of one of America’s major ethnic groups and by their—by our—common history.<br />
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For us, Polonized has not meant polarized. While no less honoring Polish cultural heritage, PAHA in recent decades has promoted a pluralist, secular, civic vision of Polishness, one, I might say, which evokes Jagiellonian and Enlightenment ideas about who may be a Pole. Although the bulk of PAHA’s membership shares a Polish ethnic background, PAHA has not been an “ethnic” organization per se, but has welcomed a diversity of persons to membership and officer positions and has published and recognized scholarship on Polish-American topics regardless of the ethno-religious or ethno-cultural background of its authors. Its conferences and other programs, meanwhile, have included—indeed, invited—participation by non-Poles. PAHA’s established practices in this regard, conducted in a pluralist American society, could—should—become a model for Polish-American organizations and groups throughout America and throughout the Polish diaspora. Indeed, they could be a model for other ethnic groups and even for nations throughout the world.<br />
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<i>John J. Bukowczyk is Professor of History at Wayne State University in Detroit and past president (1990-92) of the Polish American Historical Association. Author of A History of the Polish Americans (1987; New York: Routledge, 2017) and editor of Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), Bukowczyk also is the editor of the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series published by Ohio University Press. </i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Translation of Orzeszkowa’s <i>Marta</i> </span></b></div>
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Ohio University Press has just published Marta, a pioneering feminist novel by 1905 NobelPrize finalist Eliza Orzeszkowa, as part of its Polish and Polish-American Studies Series. The book is translated by Anna Gąsienica Byrcyn and Stephanie Kraft, with an introduction by Grażyna J. Kozaczka. We think it has excellent potential for classroom use in women’s studies, Polish studies, and women’s writing, labor history, and nineteenth-century literature courses. Of Orzeszkowa’s many works of social realism, Marta (1873) is among the best known, but until now it has not been available in English. Easily a peer of The Awakening and A Doll’s House, the novel was well ahead of the English literature of its time in attacking the ways the labor market failed women. An excerpt and Grażyna J. Kozaczka’s introduction, including discussion questions, are available here:<br />
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<a href="https://ohioswallow.com/extras/Marta_Excerpt.pdf">https://ohioswallow.com/extras/Marta_Excerpt.pdf</a>. If you are an editor who is interested in a review copy for your journal or website, you can request one here: <a href="https://ohioswallow.com/request/review/OUP71G904J381">https://ohioswallow.com/request/review/OUP71G904J381</a> (for international requests, the press will hard copies at their discretion). If you are interested in assigning the book to a class, you can request a free pdf exam copy here: <a href="http://ohioswallow.com/request/exam/OUP71G904J381">ohioswallow.com/request/exam/OUP71G904J381</a><br />
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Prof. Grażyna Kozaczka commented about the book: “Orzeszkowa wrote Marta early in her career and the novel reflects her interest in the women’s issues. The novel focuses on a young sheltered genteel woman who has recently lost her husband and discovers how difficult it is to support herself and her small daughter. Without a safety net of a family, without education that could secure her a job, Marta learns quickly that the world can be quite hostile to a single woman. In her novel, Orzeszkowa offers a brilliant picture of Warsaw society during the second half of the 19th century as she follows her unfortunate heroine.” The beautiful book cover features a reproduction of “Macierzyństwo,” a lovely painting by Olga Boznańska.<br />
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<br />Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-25025945914992257942019-07-01T17:54:00.003-07:002019-07-01T17:55:02.214-07:00Nominate a Scholar, Community Activist, or Artist for a PAHA Award! Deadline on July 30, 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><br /></b><b>CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR PAHA AWARDS AND PRIZES</b><br />
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Nominations are sought for the following awards that will be presented by PAHA at its 77th Annual Meeting, in January 2020. The following award nominations must be received by July 30, 2019, via email to Chair of the Awards Committee, PAHA's Second Vice President, Dr. Marta Cieslak, at mxcieslak@ualr.edu.<br />
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<li><b>Mieczyslaw Haiman Award </b>is offered annually to an American scholar for sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans.</li>
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<li><b>Oskar Halecki Prize</b> recognizes an important book or monograph on the Polish experience in the United States. Eligibility is limited to works of historical and/or cultural interest, including those in the social sciences or humanities, published in the two years prior to the year of the award.</li>
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<li><b>Skalny Civic Achievement Award </b>honors individuals or groups who advance PAHA's goals of promoting research and awareness of the Polish-American experience and/or have made significant contributions to Polish or Polish-American community and culture.</li>
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<li><b>Amicus Poloniae Award </b>recognizes significant contributions enhancing knowledge of Polish and Polish-American heritage by individuals not belonging to the Polish-American community.</li>
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<li><b>James Pula Distinguished Service Award</b> is given occasionally to a member of PAHA who has rendered valuable and sustained service to the organization. Since 2017, this award honors Prof. James Pula, PAHA's past president, current treasurer, and a long-time editor of the Polish American Studies.</li>
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<li><b>Creative Arts Prize </b>recognizes the contributions in the field of creative arts by individuals or groups who have promoted an awareness of the Polish experience in the Americas.</li>
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<li>Established in 2018, the <b>Joseph W. Zurawski Prize </b>will be awarded for the best article or book published on the topic of Polish American screen images in films or television presented to audiences in the United States and released by American companies. To be eligible, works must have been published within the past three years. Nominations should be sent to the Awards Committee, Polish American Historical Association. Although there is no deadline, for the fullest annual consideration nominations should be made by June 1 each year. Awards will be presented at the awards ceremony during the annual PAHA conference in January.</li>
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<b>JOSEPH W. ZURAWSKI PRIZE FOR STUDIES OF POLISH AMERICANS IN FILM OR TELEVISION IN THE U.S.</b><br />
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The Polish American Historical Association is pleased to announce creation of the Joseph W. Zurawski Prize. Consisting of a $500 award and a plaque, the prize will be awarded for the best article or book published on the topic of Polish American screen images in films or television presented to audiences in the United States and released by American companies. To be eligible, works must have been published within the past three years. Nominations should be sent to the Awards Committee, Polish American Historical Association, Chair, Dr. Marta Cieslak, at mxcieslak@ualr.edu. Although there is no deadline, for the fullest annual consideration nominations should be made by June 1 each year. Awards will be presented at the awards ceremony during the annual PAHA conference in January.<br />
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Joseph W. Zurawski has remained active in the Polish American community since writing his graduate thesis on Poland in 1960. He reviewed books on the Polish American community for several newspapers, was editor for <i>Narod Polski</i>, president of the Polish Museum of America, member of the Boards of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America and the Polish Museum of America, and taught Polish American history and culture at Wright and Triton Colleges. He was an archivist of historical records for Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital (known as "The Polish Hospital”), wrote several books including <i>Polish American History and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography</i> and, most recently, <i>The Polish Presence in American Screen Images. </i>Among the awards he received are: Outstanding Young Man of America, Chamber of Commerce (1963); Distinguished Service Certificate, Copernicus Quincentennial Commission (1973); the American Catholic Who’s Who (1976), Kosciuszko Medal, Kosciuszko Foundation (1977); Civic Achievement Award, Polish American Historical Association (2002); “Wybitny Polak” (Outstanding Pole, culture category), Foundation of Polish Promotion, Chicago presentation a Chicago’s Polish Consulate, Warsaw culmination at Grand Theater and Polish National Opera (2017). He has been a proud member of the Polish American Historical Association for over 50 years.<br />
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<b>GRADUATE STUDENT/YOUNG SCHOLAR TRAVEL GRANT, DUE JULY 30, 2019</b><br />
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PAHA encourages graduate students and emerging scholars (up to three years after graduation) to apply for a Travel Grant. Two such grants of $500.00 each will be awarded to offset travel costs to attend the 2020 PAHA Annual Meeting in New York. The grants will be awarded by the Program Committee for two best conference proposals dealing with the Polish American experience in any historical epoch, scholarly field, or aspect submitted by junior scholars.<br />
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To apply please submit the following documents to Chair of Awards Committee, PAHA's Second Vice President, Dr. Marta Cieslak, via email to mxcieslak@ualr.edu:<br />
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<li>your paper proposal (as required by the general CFP)</li>
<li>a brief letter of application (no template will be provided)</li>
<li>a complete CV</li>
<li>one letter of recommendation from a senior scholar (e.g. thesis advisor).</li>
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In order to receive the travel grant it is mandatory to present the paper at the conference in person. Awardees will receive remuneration during the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Meeting. Failure to present the paper in person at the annual meeting shall result in the immediate cancellation of the grant.<br />
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The deadline for application, to be submitted with the paper proposal, is JULY 30, 2019.<br />
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Please send your application packets by email to chair of the Awards Committee, Dr. Marta Cieslak, at mxcieslak@ualr.edu, with the subject line "Graduate Student Travel Grant."<br />
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Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-84521656570799818262019-05-25T19:57:00.000-07:002019-05-25T19:57:00.826-07:00Objects that Speak - Zither of a Compassionate Dreamer<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PAHA Website includes a new section entitled "Objects that Speak" and curated by President Anna Muller. In the introduction to the site Muller writes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>"In the collection of objects included on this site, PAHA hopes to engage with the history of Polish Americans, but also to reflect on the phenomenology of objects. The objects tell the stories of people who traveled across the Atlantic. Most of the objects were to help them fulfill their dreams of remaking their lives anew far away from home. While they symbolize the importance of the home left behind, they also testify to the Polish immigrants’/people’s efforts to imbue a new home with significance. One of the first stories that grabbed our hearts – the story that is included on the website – was the story of a photo from a grandfather’s passport – a terrific example of how some objects, with time, take on a separate life from the one that served their creation; and how many of them now play a role in the lives of future generations. The relationship between us and objects is fluid – they affect our lives, but we also change their purpose. The passport was a tool that helped the grandfather’s transition, but with time, for the younger generations, it became the symbol of that transition, and also a link to the past. Photos of objects send a message of the power of human agency, but also of an individual’s daily life – daily gestures of care that nourish the connection with the past for the future."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The strummed notes of a zither are striking and clear, overlapping one another in harmony and vibrating in the wooden hollow of the soundbox. The curved, wooden, string instrument, somewhat like a gentler-sounding harpsichord with additional guitar strings, and the ability to play music on it has been vastly forgotten today. For Henrietta Nowakowski, however, the zither (cytra, she calls it) was always a touchstone of her life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For Nowakowski, the zither was a part of her mother (Aniela Zapytowski’s) identity, a symbol of her dreams. It’s story began earlier though, tracing back beyond Nowakowski’s memory to her maternal grandparents, Aniela’s parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nowakowski never met her grandparents. She knows that her mother’s father took care of horses on an estate. Being a younger son in a family of multiple children, he hadn't inherited land from his own father and instead had to travel with his trade. His wife, [Nowakowski's grandmother], who passed away when little Aniela was 10 or 11 years old, must have been a strong, knowledgeable woman because professionally she was a herbalist. People came from all over her region to be cured by her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After Aniela’s mother’s death, her father remarried. Aniela’s youngest sister was most impacted by the changing circumstances and was mistreated by her new stepmother. Eventually she couldn’t bear it, and at 16, set out for on a journey in hopes of a new life in America, a monumental decision for a young person without question, but one which would have ripple effects throughout the entire family and future generations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This determination and courage, shared by late mother and youngest daughter is also apparent in Aniela’s story. Aniela, a middle daughter in the five children, was also a strong professional woman, matriarchal, determined and independent. Trained in sewing, Aniela worked in Lwów for an Austrian family as a seamstress and governess. Her hard work and practicality didn’t signify a brevity of imagination, however. Aniela was a dreamer, always thinking of other places and possibilities. In 1913, she and her older sister decided to make a short visit to the youngest sister, traveling by ship in second-class from Bremerhaven to the US where the young woman now lived in Philadelphia. Traveling second (rather than third) class on the ship was a big deal, and only possible because of Aniela’s own efforts and work as a seamstress (Zakład Krawcowy in Lwów). Nowakowski recounts with pride that they paid their own way and must have saved for their passage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aniela herself was only 26. The beautiful wooden zither was clearly one of her cherished possessions because she included it among her necessities. Apart from the instrument and some pictures, Nowakowski has just a few other momentos her from her mother's European life. "I also have a picture of dried edelweiss flowers, a souvenir of my mother’s visit to Austria, where she accompanied her Austrian employer," Nowakowski recalls. Aniela once recounted seeing the operetta “The Merry Widow” in the Burg Theatre in Vienna during this trip. Her daughter now deduces that "judging by the time period, it must have been just at the time that this work by Franz Lehar premiered. The card with the dried ‘szarotki’ had to have been important to my mother since I remember that in the late 1940’s, about 30 years later, she went to a lot of effort to have the card beautifully framed. It’s now in my living room." Slowly, by looking at the objects and by going deeper in her memories, Nowakowski begins to piece together the story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In Philadelphia, Nowakowski knows that the three sisters met up just as the war broke out. Though unexpected and probably not in line with Aniela’s plans for her life, she made the best of the compulsion to stay in the US and fell back on her sewing skills to support herself, finding work as a seamstress. A single woman forced to survive in a foreign country, Aniela could have become hardened and rough by the stress and work, but perhaps it was the zither and her music which allowed her to stay “soft hearted and tender” as Nowakowski remembers. Eventually Aniela moved to Pittsburg, becoming active in the Polish Falcons, a Polish paramilitary organization.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was here that love struck. At the Pittsburgh Falcon Nest, Aniela met her husband and Henrietta's father, Ignacy Zapytowski. Also from the Lwów area, he had served in the Austrian army and first at age 24 immigrated to America (in 1907). In Pittsburg, he enlisted to go back to Europe and fight with the Polish Army in WWI. This decision stirred turmoil in his family because there was the potential the family would be fighting against itsself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After his safe return to the US at the conclusion of the war, he and Aniela were married. Both remained very active in Polish military organizations, however. Ignacy’s work brought him to Detroit (where he could use his cabinetmaker skills as a wood model maker for future cars), Aniela assumed directorship of a woman’s group, headquartered in Detroit, which worked to help returning Polish veterans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the mid 30s Aniela had stopped both working and playing the Zither. It was badly in need of tuning and fixing but there was no one with the necessary knowledge and skills to do the work. This may have been heartbreaking, a tangible severing of Aniela’s connection to her past, home and dreams of returning. But if so, she didn’t express this to her children nor allow it to break her soft spirit and love of music. Even though, from the earliest Nowakowski can remember, the Zither was hidden away out of sight, the house remained full of music and dreams. Nowakowski and her older sister both took piano lessons and practiced on the piano at home, continuing their mother’s tradition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By this time, Aniela's dreams of returning to Poland were also lovingly put aside like her instrument. Though she and Ignacy had always wished to return home, the depression had wiped out their savings. Based on a copious amount of postcards and letters, it's assumed that Ignacy traveled frequently with work before marriage, but the family was never able to permanently relocate to Poland. Despite this too, Nowakowski recalls how her mother always remained a "very compassionate dreamer," full of softness and hope. Over and over again, Aniela’s strength and grace showed through as she adjusted to circumstances beyond her control and continued on ungrudgingly.</span><br />
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The Spring 2019 issue of the Polish American Studies has been published! The Editor, Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann writes:<br />
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"We are glad to present to you the new issue of Polish American Studies (vol. 76, no. 1: Spring 2019)! This issue highlights two distinct themes in the research on Polonia in the Western Hemisphere.<br />
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The first theme pertains to the transformations within contemporary Polonia in one specific location: Greenpoint, NY. A group of distinguished sociologists and urban anthropologists share their research on this topic. Jerry Krase discusses how the media coverage coming both from print and internet sources created a changing image of the Polish Greenpoint. Judith DeSena comments on how economic changes and gentrification affected the housing market in Greenpoint. A group of researchers from NYU and CUNY (Karolina Lukasiewicz, Ewa Dzurak, Ewa Maliga, Izabela J. Barry, and Marta Pawlaczek) present a sociological study of the aging population of Polish residents in Greenpoint.<br />
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The second theme focuses on the history of the Kashubs, a regional ethno-linguistic group originating from the northern part of Poland. In his article, Joshua C. Blank offers an insightful look into the culture of Kashub settlers in Ontario, Canada, and especially the traditions of imbibing. In "Varia" Anne Gurnack, Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf, and Janina Kurowska recall a forgotten story of the Kashub fishermen from Jones Island, WI, who became an object of the travelling exhibit on both sides of the ocean.<br />
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In Memoriam includes a tribute to Professor Thaddeus C. Radzilowski. Book Review section brings reviews of publications authored by Anna Mazurkiewicz, Sheldon Anderson, Waldemar Glinski, Thaddeus Gromada, and Katrina Shawver.<br />
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Last but not least, please note the cover: it is an image of a mural on the walls of the Polish National Home in Greenpoint, NY, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising of 1944. It had been unveiled in 2014. The mural was painted by artist Rafal pisarczyk and sponsored by the Pangea Network/Gram-X Promotions and by the Polish American Veterans Association Chapter 2 in New York City."<br />
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<b>Polish American Studies, vol. 76, no. 1 (Spring 2019)</b><br />
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<b>IN MEMORIAM</b><br />
Thaddeus C. Radzilowski<br />
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<b>EDITORIAL NOTE</b><br />
by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann<br />
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<b>FORUM</b><br />
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<li>Seeing Greenpoint Virtually and Actually Change: Polish Americans and Gentrification in</li>
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<li>The Polish Community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn Then and Now: A View from the Street - By Judith N. DeSena</li>
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<li>Getting by or Making it? Polish Immigrants Aging in an Ethnic Enclave of Greenpoint - By Karolina Łukasiewicz, Ewa Dżurak, Ewa Maliga, Izabela J. Barry, and Marta Pawlaczek</li>
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<li>Stills in the Hills: Moonshine Memories from Around Canada’s First Polish Kashub Community - By Joshua C. Blank</li>
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<b>VARIA</b><br />
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<li>The Saga of the Jones Island’s Kaszube Fishermen Returns Home to Poland in 2017 - By Anne M. Gurnack, Aleksandra Kurowska- Susdorf, Janina Kurowska</li>
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<li>Anna Mazurkiewicz, Uchodźcy polityczni z Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w amerykańskiej polityce zimnowojennej, 1948-1954 (Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann)</li>
<li>Sheldon Anderson, The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Athlete of Her Time (Mary Patrice Erdmans)</li>
<li>Waldemar Gliński, ed. Polonia kanadyjska. Przeszłość i teraźniejszość (John M. Grondelski) </li>
<li>Thaddeus V. Gromada, Tatra Highlander Folk Culture in Poland and America. Collected Essays from “The Tatra Eagle” (Marek Liszka)</li>
<li>Katrina Shawver. Henry: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America (Sheldon Anderson)</li>
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Polish American Studies is the Polish American Historical Association's interdisciplinary double-blind refereed scholarly journal (ISSN 0032-2806; eISSN 2330-0833), which has been published continuously since 1944. It appears biannually and is available world-wide through JSTOR, a database of full-text research journals. PAS is indexed in America: History and Life; American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies; ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index; Bibliographic Index; Current Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; MLA International Bibliography; PIO - Periodical Index Online; PubMed; TOC Premier and EBSCO.<br />
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The editors welcome scholarship including articles, edited documents, bibliographies and related materials dealing with all aspects of the history and culture of Poles in the Western Hemisphere. They particularly welcome contributions that place the Polish experience in historical and comparative perspective as part of the larger Polish Diaspora, and by examining its relationship to other ethnic groups. Contributions from any discipline in the humanities and social sciences are welcome. The Swastek Prize is awarded annually for the best article published in a given volume of Polish American Studies.<br />
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Manuscripts or inquiries should be submitted in Microsoft Word via e-mail attachment to the Editor, Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, at anna.k@polishamericanstudies.org or KIRCHMANNA@easternct.edu. Manuscripts should be no longer than 8,000 to 10,000 words plus notes, tables, etc. They should include an abstract of about 200 words, and a brief author’s biographical information, their affiliation, and email address. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain all copyright permissions for illustrations and images. Editors will not review works previously published in any form or ghost-written. Authors should follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Contributors whose first language is not English should have their work reviewed for clarity and style prior to submission.<br />
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Dr. Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann<br />
Editor, Polish American Studies<br />
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Books for review should be sent to Mary Patrice Erdmans (English language) or Joanna Wojdon (Polish language) at the addresses below. Books may be submitted by publishers or authors. Submission is no guarantee that books will be reviewed and books will not be returned.<br />
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Mary Patrice Erdmans<br />
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Polish American Studies<br />
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Joanna Wojdon<br />
Book Review Editor for Poland<br />
Polish American Studies<br />
University of Wroclaw<br />
Faculty of History<br />
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<b>EDITORS</b><br />
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Editor: Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University, anna.k@polishamericanstudies.org or KIRCHMANNA@easternct.edu<br />
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Book Review Editor: Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University, mary.e@polishamericanstudies.org or mary.erdmans@case.edu<br />
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Book Review Editor for Poland: Joanna Wojdon, University of Wroclaw, Poland, joanna.wojdon@uni.wroc.pl<br />
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M. B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University<br />
Tobias Brinkmann, Pennsylvania State University<br />
John J. Bukowczyk, Wayne State University<br />
Silvia Dapia, John Jay College, CUNY<br />
William J. Galush, Loyola University Chicago<br />
Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College Chicago<br />
Grażyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College<br />
Karen Majewski, University of Michigan<br />
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk, Poland<br />
Thomas J. Napierkowski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs<br />
Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee<br />
Angela Pienkos, Polish Center Wisconsin<br />
James S. Pula, Purdue University<br />
John Radziłowski, University of Alaska - Southeast<br />
Francis D. Raška, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic<br />
Suzanne R. Sinke, Florida State University<br />
Dariusz Stola, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland<br />
Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland<br />
__________________________________________________________Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-16379357044230461582019-05-06T11:45:00.001-07:002019-05-06T15:35:28.688-07:00Prof. Dominic Pacyga - Vice-Marshall in Chicago's 127th Constitution Day Parade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dr. Dominic Pacyga, a highly respected historian of Polonia and an expert on the history of Chicago served as Vice-Marshall in the 2019 Constitution Day Parade in Chicago. He commented: "Being Vice- Marshall of the Polish Constitution Day Parade in Chicago was one of the high points of my professional life. I was surprised and honored to be nominated by the <i>Dziennik Związkowy </i>and grateful for their endorsement of my work. The parade was wonderful. It was a delight to see so many young people and children involved. I was especially happy to see the widespread support of Polonia for the event. It proves the staying power of Polskość and that the Chicago area’s Polonia remains a vital force in the social, economic, cultural, and political life of the city and suburbs."<br />
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Dominic A. Pacyga is Professor Emeritus of the Columbia College in Chicago. For three decades, he taught in the Liberal Education Department at the college. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1981 and has wide ranging interests in urban development, labor history, immigration, and racial and ethnic relations. He worked with museums including the Chicago Historical Society, the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Field Museum in Chicago on a variety of public history projects. Pacyga has also worked with numerous neighborhood organizations as well as ethnic, labor, and fraternal groups to preserve and exhibit their histories. Pacyga acted as guest curator of a major exhibit, "The Chicago Bungalow" at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and co-edited The Chicago Bungalow (Arcadia Press 2001), a companion volume to the exhibit.<br />
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Dr. Pacyga won the Oscar Halecki Award from the Polish American Historical Association for his book, <i>Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago</i> (1991) and the Catholic Book Award for <i>Chicago: City of Neighborhood</i>s (1986). Dr. Pacyga served on PAHA Board in 2016-2018. During the 75th Anniversary Conference of PAHA (at Loyola University Chicago, September 2018), Dr. Pacyga took the participants on a tour of Polish Chicago; and a summary was posted on this blog: <a href="http://pahanews.blogspot.com/2018/10/tours-of-chicago-with-dominic-pacyga.html">http://pahanews.blogspot.com/2018/10/tours-of-chicago-with-dominic-pacyga.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Parade in 1999. Photo by Belissarius. Wikimedia Commons.</span></div>
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The Polish Constitution Day Parade in Chicago was held for the first time in 1892 in Humboldt Park, and after World War II it was moved to downtown, currently being held in Grant Park, from Buckingham Fountain to the bridge. The event honors Poland's May 3rd Constitution, the first democratic constitution of Europe, adopted by the Polish Seym in 1791, after four years of debating. It is the second constitution of its kind, following the Constitution of the United States Constitution.<br />
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The 2019 Parade Marshall was Józef Cikowski, president of Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America, an organization gathering former residents of the Tatra Mountains and their foothills, who emigrated to Chicago in large numbers mostly prior to World War I. The election of the Marshall was held in March, with interviews of the top candidates w ho presented their achievements on behalf of Polonia. <a href="http://dziennikzwiazkowy.com/polonia/jozef-cikowski-marszalkiem-parady-3-maja/">http://dziennikzwiazkowy.com/polonia/jozef-cikowski-marszalkiem-parady-3-maja/</a><br />
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More than 100 Polonia organizations participated in the parade, including schools, culture clubs, Polish student clubs, Polish scouts (Harcerstwo), businesses, and fraternal and social organizations. The parade was watched by about 200,000 viewers. All Polish language schools their students to the parade, and about 10,000 students participated in the parade, marching with their teachers, carrying flags and banners.<br />
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<b>CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR PAHA AWARDS AND PRIZES</b><br />
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Nominations are sought for the following awards that will be presented by PAHA at its 77th Annual Meeting, in January 2020. The following award nominations must be received by July 30, 2019, via email to Chair of the Awards Committee, PAHA's Second Vice President, Dr. Marta Cieslak, at mxcieslak@ualr.edu.<br />
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<li><b>Mieczyslaw Haiman Award </b>is offered annually to an American scholar for sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans.</li>
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<li><b>Oskar Halecki Prize</b> recognizes an important book or monograph on the Polish experience in the United States. Eligibility is limited to works of historical and/or cultural interest, including those in the social sciences or humanities, published in the two years prior to the year of the award.</li>
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<li><b>Skalny Civic Achievement Award </b>honors individuals or groups who advance PAHA's goals of promoting research and awareness of the Polish-American experience and/or have made significant contributions to Polish or Polish-American community and culture.</li>
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<li><b>Amicus Poloniae Award </b>recognizes significant contributions enhancing knowledge of Polish and Polish-American heritage by individuals not belonging to the Polish-American community.</li>
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<li><b>James Pula Distinguished Service Award</b> is given occasionally to a member of PAHA who has rendered valuable and sustained service to the organization. Since 2017, this award honors Prof. James Pula, PAHA's past president, current treasurer, and a long-time editor of the Polish American Studies.</li>
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<li><b>Creative Arts Prize </b>recognizes the contributions in the field of creative arts by individuals or groups who have promoted an awareness of the Polish experience in the Americas.</li>
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<li>Established in 2018, the <b>Joseph W. Zurawski Prize </b>will be awarded for the best article or book published on the topic of Polish American screen images in films or television presented to audiences in the United States and released by American companies. To be eligible, works must have been published within the past three years. Nominations should be sent to the Awards Committee, Polish American Historical Association. Although there is no deadline, for the fullest annual consideration nominations should be made by June 1 each year. Awards will be presented at the awards ceremony during the annual PAHA conference in January.</li>
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<b>JOSEPH W. ZURAWSKI PRIZE FOR STUDIES OF POLISH AMERICANS IN FILM OR TELEVISION IN THE U.S.</b><br />
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The Polish American Historical Association is pleased to announce creation of the Joseph W. Zurawski Prize. Consisting of a $500 award and a plaque, the prize will be awarded for the best article or book published on the topic of Polish American screen images in films or television presented to audiences in the United States and released by American companies. To be eligible, works must have been published within the past three years. Nominations should be sent to the Awards Committee, Polish American Historical Association, Chair, Dr. Marta Cieslak, at mxcieslak@ualr.edu. Although there is no deadline, for the fullest annual consideration nominations should be made by June 1 each year. Awards will be presented at the awards ceremony during the annual PAHA conference in January.<br />
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Joseph W. Zurawski has remained active in the Polish American community since writing his graduate thesis on Poland in 1960. He reviewed books on the Polish American community for several newspapers, was editor for <i>Narod Polski</i>, president of the Polish Museum of America, member of the Boards of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America and the Polish Museum of America, and taught Polish American history and culture at Wright and Triton Colleges. He was an archivist of historical records for Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital (known as "The Polish Hospital”), wrote several books including <i>Polish American History and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography</i> and, most recently, <i>The Polish Presence in American Screen Images. </i>Among the awards he received are: Outstanding Young Man of America, Chamber of Commerce (1963); Distinguished Service Certificate, Copernicus Quincentennial Commission (1973); the American Catholic Who’s Who (1976), Kosciuszko Medal, Kosciuszko Foundation (1977); Civic Achievement Award, Polish American Historical Association (2002); “Wybitny Polak” (Outstanding Pole, culture category), Foundation of Polish Promotion, Chicago presentation a Chicago’s Polish Consulate, Warsaw culmination at Grand Theater and Polish National Opera (2017). He has been a proud member of the Polish American Historical Association for over 50 years.<br />
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<b>GRADUATE STUDENT/YOUNG SCHOLAR TRAVEL GRANT, DUE JULY 30, 2019</b><br />
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PAHA encourages graduate students and emerging scholars (up to three years after graduation) to apply for a Travel Grant. Two such grants of $500.00 each will be awarded to offset travel costs to attend the 2020 PAHA Annual Meeting in New York. The grants will be awarded by the Program Committee for two best conference proposals dealing with the Polish American experience in any historical epoch, scholarly field, or aspect submitted by junior scholars.<br />
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To apply please submit the following documents to Chair of Awards Committee, PAHA's Second Vice President, Dr. Marta Cieslak, via email to mxcieslak@ualr.edu:<br />
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<li>your paper proposal (as required by the general CFP)</li>
<li>a brief letter of application (no template will be provided)</li>
<li>a complete CV</li>
<li>one letter of recommendation from a senior scholar (e.g. thesis advisor).</li>
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In order to receive the travel grant it is mandatory to present the paper at the conference in person. Awardees will receive remuneration during the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Meeting. Failure to present the paper in person at the annual meeting shall result in the immediate cancellation of the grant.<br />
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The deadline for application, to be submitted with the paper proposal, is JULY 30, 2019.<br />
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Please send your application packets by email to chair of the Awards Committee, Dr. Marta Cieslak, at mxcieslak@ualr.edu, with the subject line "Graduate Student Travel Grant."<br />
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During its annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) presented Prof. Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk, with their prestigious 2019 Willi Paul Adams Award, which is given every two years for the best book on American history published in a language other than English.<br />
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The book, <i>Uchodźcy polityczni z Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w amerykańskiej polityce zimnowojennej, 1948–1954 </i>[<i>Political Exiles from East Central Europe in American Cold War Politics, 1948–1954</i>] was published by the Institute of National Remembrance and University of Gdańsk. This is an impressively detailed study of the origins and dynamics of U.S. involvement on behalf of East Central European exiles in the early years of the Cold War. Based on transatlantic archival work and covering exile groups such as Albanians, Romanians, Hungarians, Poles, and Slovaks, the book’s signal contribution is to join the literature of U.S. Cold War policy and propaganda formation with the literature on exile politics in these important but understudied regions of the Soviet bloc.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Prof. Earl Lewis, OAH President presents the award to Prof. Anna Mazurkiewicz</span></div>
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Mazurkiewicz presents a nuanced analysis of the two-way relationship between East Central European exiles and U.S. Cold War policy makers, especially through formation of the Free Europe Committee, an anticommunist Central Intelligence Agency–supported organization that established Radio Free Europe and served American propaganda interests. Documents from exiles and interviews with them demonstrate the compromises involved in becoming tethered to the U.S. propaganda mission and give voice to their complex and often-equivocal response to the partnership. The author concludes that the East Central Europeans’ integration in the Free Europe Committee became a model for U.S. relations with anticommunist exile groups from other regions of the world. Because exile and refugee politics are often tied to U.S. policy makers’ interest in regime change elsewhere, Mazurkiewicz’s history will remain a meaningful reference point for the present.<br />
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The award was presented on April 5 by OAH’s 2018–19 President Earl Lewis and 2019–20 President Joanne Meyerowitz. For more information, visit oah.org or call 812.855.7311.<br />
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Maja Trochimczyk, Agata Blaszczyk and Andrew Klees after their session, January 5, 2019, Chicago.</div>
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T<i>his is a brief summary of Agata Błaszczyk’s paper “The Foundations of the Polish Diaspora in Exile after World War II: Cultural Identity and Loyalty of the Polish Emigres in Resettlement” presented at the 76th Meeting of PAHA in Chicago in January 2019. Dr. Błaszczyk represents Polish University Abroad in London (PUNO), Polish Emigration Research Unit. The session also included papers: "For Us Americans of Polish Descent, War Broke out on September 1st, 1939": The Divided Loyalties of the Sienkiewicz Youth Circle - Andrew Kless, University of Rochester and "</i><i>Defining Poland through Music: American Musical Celebrations of the Centennial of Poland’s Regained Independence" - Maja Trochimczyk, Moonrise Press, Los Angeles. An overview about musical celebrations of independence was posted on this blog last November: </i><br />
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The subject of my research is Polish immigration to post-War Britain and overseas. It portrays the Polish community’s rehabilitation in exile and the British government’s creation of a model migrant settlement policy for Polish refugees after 1946. It explains how Poles successfully integrated into mainstream British society and highlights the importance of education as their route to civic integration.<br />
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I investigate the question of national identity, national loyalty, cultivating national traditions, and retaining “Polishness” through the prism of resettlement. My study examines the political implications of the passage of the Polish Resettlement Bill in March 1947 (the first ever British legislation dealing with mass immigration) and how the original refugees formed much of the Polish community as it exists today.<br />
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A slide from Dr. Blaszczyk's presentation.</div>
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A good deal of the work linked to the Bill involved education as provided for by the Committee for the Education of Poles, a body brought into being on 1 April 1947. The Committee’s principal aim was stressed in its memorandum: ‘To fit them (Poles) for absorption into British schools and British careers whilst still maintaining provision for their natural desire for the maintenance of Polish culture and the knowledge of Polish History and Literature.” The National Assistance Board was to provide accommodation for Polish refugees in camps, hostels or other establishments. The Board took charge of the Polish Resettlement Camps. Former army and air force camps were utilized as temporary accommodation throughout the country for over 250,000 Polish troops and their families. <br />
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School grounds in Bottisham, classrooms and dormitories.</div>
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For many years these camps were seen as remote places packed with Nissen huts or poor quality dwellings occupied by more than one family per hut. They were located in rural areas or outside the cities, heated by slow combustion stoves, but with poor natural ventilation and light. There were severe shortages in many aspects of everyday life in the camps. However, for the first generation of Poles they became a symbol of stability; for the second, much Most camps were eventually closed in the 1950’s and late1960’s. Northwick Park Camp (Gloucestershire) was closed in 1968, though according to local (British) residents the last Polish families only moved out in 1973. Based on interviews with local residents who lived close to the Northwick Park Estates in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Ashby Folville Camp (Leicestershire) was closed in 1958; Babdown (Gloucestershire) in 1959; Daglingworth (Gloucestershire) in 1961; Melton Mowbray (Leicestershire) in 1962; Kelvedon (Essex) in 1959.younger generation, the camps would always remain in their memory as happy places, full of freedom.<br />
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A group of camp residents, Nissen huts in the background.</div>
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In due course, the Poles emerged as dedicated contributors to the rebuilt British and many other post-war economies. Children of Polish descent, who were born, brought up and educated in the reality of the resettlement camps have engaged in professional careers and made their Polish names visible not only in a rapidly diversifying British society, but in other cultures on different continents in the post war times. The classes of ’46 and ’47 (in particular) demonstrates the successful implementation of the principles adopted by the Committee for the Education of Poles. These children of Polish descent were born, brought up and educated in the reality of the Committee’s camps or hostels. After obtaining a basic education, they engaged in professional careers and made their Polish names recognizable in a rapidly diversifying British society.<br />
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Two prominent examples must suffice. Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, a Polish-British physician and immunologist is currently the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Sir Leszek’s parents arrived in the Britain in 1947 and settled in Wales, where he was born and brought up in a small, Polish-speaking community. He was knighted in 2001. Then there is Waldemar Januszczak, the well-known British art critic and broadcaster. He also was a child of Polish refugees, and tragically lost his father in a train accident when he was one-year old. Today, the Polish minority constitutes one of the largest and the most prosperous ethnic groups in the UK and in America. <br />
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Nissen hut today, with added entrance porch. Northwick Park (Gloucestershire)</div>
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Two Polish American scholarly organizations issued calls for papers for their annual conferences, the Polish American Historical Association, due by 15 April 2019 and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, due by March 15, 2019.<br />
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The previous issue of this blog contained detailed Call for Papers for PAHA's 77th Annual Meeting in New York, held as part of the 134th yearly meeting of the American Historical Association from January 3–6, 2020. Abstracts for papers and panel proposals are now being accepted and should be submitted to Anna Muller at anmuller@umich.edu.<br />
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<b>PIASA CALL FOR PAPERS FOR JUNE 2019, GDANSK, POLAND</b></div>
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The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America is pleased to invite proposals for the Seventh World Congress on Polish Studies to be held at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, June 14-16, 2019.<br />
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Proposals are solicited for complete sessions or individual papers in any of the disciplines in the liberal arts, sciences, or business/economics. The general theme of the conference is “Anniversaries,” which, because 2019 lends itself to the remembrance of so many varied historical moments, should be interpreted as any formative event. Papers do not necessarily have to address the conference theme. Since the Institute values comparative sessions that place the Polish and East Central European experience in context, individual papers need not focus specifically on Poland or the Polish diaspora, but may include papers on a central topic that focus on other national or regional experiences. Similarly, sessions including presenters from more than one country are encouraged.<br />
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Each session is scheduled for 90 minutes to accommodate three papers or 20 minutes per paper. The conference language is English, although complete sessions in Polish will also be accepted (sessions must contain either all English or all Polish presentations). All conference rooms will be equipped with AV for the use of PowerPoint and CD/DVD presentations. Presenters are invited to submit their conference papers for possible publication in The Polish Review subsequent to the conference.<br />
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To submit a paper or complete session, please send the name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, a tentative paper title and a brief one-paragraph abstract for all presenters to program chair James Pula at jpula@pnw.edu. The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2019. All participants are expected to pay the conference registration fee.<br />
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The University of Gdańsk is located along the sandy shores of the Baltic Sea. Its eleven faculties, with almost 28,000 students, are concentrated in the three cities of Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot that boast an efficient transportation system, an international airport, fast train connections to Warsaw and Kraków, and ferry connections to Scandinavia.<br />
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The Tri-City area is one of the most beautiful places in Poland. The charming location on the coast, as well as its many outstanding theatres, concert halls and restaurants constitute an attractive asset for conference participants. The attractions of historic Gdańsk include numerous museums of the city’s fascinating past (muzeumgdansk.pl)—Maritime Museum, National Museum, World War II Museum, Westerplatte where the first shots of the Second World War in Europe were fired, as well as the European Solidarity Center located on the grounds of the former Lenin shipyard where the workers’ strike of 1980 initiated a process that led to the crumbling of Communism in East Central Europe.<br />
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The attractions of the modern city of Gdynia—“the city of sea and dreams”—includes the new Emigration Museum as well as museums of the Polish Navy and of the city itself. All of them are located on the shores of the bay. Sopot, the pearl of the Baltic Sea on the very coast itself, each year draws thousands of tourists to its charming beaches and cafes. Less than an hour away from Gdańsk, in Malbork, there is the 13th century Teutonic Knights castle, a world renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site.Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-52133428684775334492019-02-08T14:20:00.000-08:002019-02-10T21:18:38.563-08:00Call for Papers for PAHA's 77th Annual Meeting in New York, Due by 15 April 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PAHA’s 77th Annual Meeting will be held in New York as part of the 134th yearly meeting of the American Historical Association from January 3–6, 2020. <br />
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This year AHA announced no theme for the incoming conference. As explained in the general CFP:
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<i>Next year, as every year, the program committee will welcome all proposals and not consider relevance to a theme. For the first time since 2003, no historian will needlessly try to package a proposal to appear to fit a theme. Let a hundred flowers bloom.</i>
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Having in mind this encouragement to let a hundred flowers bloom as an invitation to embrace the richness of ideas and proposals that may come from our colleagues, we would like to nevertheless suggest that the incoming PAHA conference reflect on the three most recent anniversaries, the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence, the centennial of Polish women gaining voting rights, and PAHA’s 75th anniversary.<br />
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We celebrated all three anniversaries only last year, and, we hope, that all three can keep pushing us to reflect on our past, the past failures and accomplishments, but also the path that we may embark upon in the future. We hence propose that the conference offers a chance to reflect on what it means to be Polish and Polish-American and how the past can guide our discussions on these question in the changing landscape of the 21st century.
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We invite scholars who study the Polish-American communities or the greater Polish diaspora as well as those who deal with migration, ethnic, and regional studies and would like to join discussions related (but not limited) to the following topics:<br />
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• Polish-Americans and the restoration of Poland’s independence, 1918 <br />
• Polish-Americans and their contribution to the civic, institutional, and political life of the U.S. <br />
• Intersections of ethnicity, class, gender, and race <br />
• The changing understanding of the ethnic heritage <br />
• Identity politics and the role of migrations in the past and contemporary world <br />
• Immigration to the USA and state building in Poland and in the United States
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• Transatlantic migrations to the Americas and state building in Poland and migrant communities in North and South America
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• Heritage, legacy, and a new understanding of the role that ethnicities play in the modern world <br />
• Polish Americans vs. other ethnic groups in a comparative perspective on both American continents and in Europe <br />
• Responses to Polish transatlantic migrations in Europe, also in a comparative perspective
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We invite proposals for sessions as well as individual papers related to all aspects of the Polish-American experience (in history, sociology, literature, art, music, etc.) on both American continents. We are committed to putting together well-researched and argued proposals in panels consisting of 3 participants. For the first time, PAHA is trying to implement commentators for each (or almost each) session.
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Individual participants should include the following information when submitting a proposal:<br />
- Paper title(s) and short abstracts (of no more than 300 words)<br />
- Biographical paragraph (up to 250 words)<br />
- Please indicate if you are willing to serve as a chair and/or a discussant for a session<br />
- Also, note if you need A/V.
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Please be advised that it is not always possible for PAHA to provide A/V equipment for all sessions due to the high mandatory rental fee from AHA. Most likely we will try to gather all presentations that require A/V equipment in one day. It is therefore important for the presenters to indicate their need for A/V when submitting their proposal.
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All presenters are encouraged to consider submission of their papers for publication in PAHA's peer-reviewed journal, Polish American Studies: <br />
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The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2019. Abstracts for papers and panel proposals are now being accepted and should be submitted to Anna Muller at anmuller@umich.edu.
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Prof. Anna Muller, University of Michigan, Dearborn, was elected to lead the organization and took over the helm at the PAHA Board Meeting in Chicago, on January 6, 2019. In her role as First Vice President she was the Chair of the Program Committee of the 76th Annual Meeting of PAHA, held in Chicago on January 3-6, 2019. Her remarks are reproduced below. <br />
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<b>OPENING REMARKS AT THE 76TH ANNUAL MEETING </b><br />
<b>OF PAHA
IN CHICAGO (1/3/2019)</b><br />
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
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It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 76th annual Polish American Historical Association conference. This is a special one – the first one after our big 75th anniversary that we celebrated just five months ago, which was also in Chicago. So, here we are again – in beautiful and vibrant Chicago – a city that has a very special place in the heart of the Polish-American community. To many of us, Chicago feels like home – a place that resonates with important histories and memories for both Poles and Polish-Americans. So here we are again – making friends, thinking of new projects, drawing stimulating observations from history, and ultimately making history again.
This is the first year of the next 75 years of PAHA’s life, hopefully as creative as the first 75 years. The theme for this year’s conference is “Loyalties.” <br />
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Yes, we mirror the AHA conference theme that defines loyalty as a form of human attachment that functions on multiple levels – social, political, group, and individual. I find this topic especially constructive for us – Polish American historians – because in our work, we continuously reflect on the intricacies and richness of individual and group identities, the various forms they take, the conflicts and negotiations they imply, and creative (and less creative) solutions the struggle around them provoke. I am convinced that personally and professionally, this theme has a special meaning for us and the ways we imagine or construct our own identities as well as the identities of the individuals or groups we study. <br />
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This year, like previous years, PAHA enjoys a significant interest from European scholars. We compiled in total 9 panels comprising twenty-nine presentations dealing with Polish and Polish-American history. Unfortunately, every year January is a challenging month to travel which means that some of the presenters had to cancel their participation, resulting in a few panels having only two presenters. However, I am pretty sure we can deal with the extra time by filling it with thought-provoking discussions.
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So, let me wrap up by wishing us all interesting presentations, challenging questions, and stimulating discussions. I hope that by the end of Saturday we will feel personally and professionally enriched and satisfied. On Saturday night, we will close this year’s conference with an award’s banquet at the Chopin Theatre, a place that is very important for the local community and which I hope will welcome you with an exceptional and festive atmosphere appropriate for the end of two days of heavy work and the initiation of another calendar year of PAHA’s work. <br />
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<b>CLOSING REMARKS AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY </b><br />
<b>AT THE CHOPIN THEATRE IN CHICAGO (1/5/2019)</b><br />
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,<br />
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Serving as PAHA President is a great honor and responsibility. Many of you may not know me, as I am a relatively recent addition to PAHA. I will be very honest and say that when I was asked to become the first v-ce president over two years ago, it did not quite occur to me that the 1st v-ce president most likely at some point would have to become president. It was too late to back out when I realized what is in store for me. <br />
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For the last couple of years, I have been learning from you: from the effortless elegance and effectiveness of Grażyna Kozaczka, from Ania’s unbeatable enthusiasm and energy. I cannot name everybody here, but Ania Jaroszyńska- Kirchman, Mary Erdman, Pien Versteegh, Jim Pula, Neal Pease, and of course Maja Trochimczyk were models of unmatched dedication to the Polish-American community, the organization, and to former leaders.
But in addition to learning to respect your individual efforts, for the last years of being close to you, my appreciation was growing for your skills of working together – negotiating, coming up with new projects, finding means and times to accomplish your goals. <br />
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I kept learning that PAHA is much more than an organization – it is a group of friends, an intellectual and emotional community that is driven by a mutual respect and devotion to the past, but also a sense of civic duty that links the past with the present.
Becoming the president for PAHA for the next two years, I cannot promise the deep knowledge of the organization that Ania and Grażyna have (and I know most of you have as well). <br />
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From this point of view, it seems that as long as I don’t ruin everything, the organization will be fine. It is strong and more importantly it has some seriously committed members. But to be serious, I appreciate your trust, feel very honored, and I hope to continue the path that Ania initiated – by making sure that the organization maintains a strong position in academic organizations and responds to the challenges of the 21st century, while building bridges between generations and continuously reflecting on who we are, how we are changing and where we are going. <br />
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I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for your trust. I am honored to be granted the responsibility of running the PAHA for the next two years. I would like to say thank you to the previous PAHA board for their service and commitment. At the same time, I would like to welcome new PAHA board as well as thank you for your willingness to serve our organization. Ahead of us is another busy year full of work on various projects that we have initiated within the last couple of years. I am very grateful for your willingness to serve the organization and I am sure together we can achieve a lot. Thank you.
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Anna Muller<br />
President of Polish American Historical Association<br />
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L to R, standing: James Pula, Robert Synakowski, Dominic Pacyga, Bozena Nowicka McLees, Neal Pease, and Anna Jaroszynska Kirchmann. Seated L to R: Maja Trochimczyk, Anna Mazurkiewicz, Pien Versteegh, Anna Muller. </div>
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At its 76th Annual Meeting at the Hilton Chicago in Chicago Il. (January 3-6, 2019) the Polish American Historical Association announced the recipients of its Annual Awards for 2018. The Meeting also included many scholarly presentations in nine sessions on diverse aspects of Polonia’s culture, presented from historical, sociological, critical, and literary perspectives with a focus on immigration issues and the theme of “loyalties and communities.” The meeting was held in conjunction with the 131st annual Meeting of the American Historical Association.
Dr. Anna Muller of the University of Michigan, Dearborn, PAHA's new President (for 2019-2020) presented the Awards at the Chopin Theatre, a Chicago landmark that celebrated its 100th anniversary last year.<br />
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<strong>The Miecislaus Haiman Award</strong> is offered annually to an American scholar for sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans. The 2018 Award was presented to <strong>Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz</strong> of the University of Gdańsk, the first Poland-based president of PAHA and an outstanding scholar who advances the field and is recognized on both sides of the Atlantic by various prizes and prestigious fellowships. <br />
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Anna Mazurkiewicz</div>
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research is particularly significant for its comparative aspect that helps us
better understand the complexities of the era and issues she studies. Her
scholarly reputation will no doubt be enhanced by her forthcoming book <i>East
Central European Migrations During the Cold War: A Handbook</i>. According to
Ulf Brunnbauer from the Leipzig Institute for East and Southeast European
Studies: “Eastern Europe is an emblematic space of mobility; also its Cold War
history cannot be told without considering migration from and into the
countries of the region; presently, migration is again one of the defining
political and economic issues. This volume comes timely and provides a uniquely
comprehensive account, full of useful information for further research. It will
be a must-read both for migration studies scholars and for area specialists.” In
the words of her colleague: she is an “exemplary scholar who is determined to
hunt down the last archival scrap of paper for her project.” Additionally, this
award recognizes her energetic leadership of PAHA, her generosity, and her
unwavering commitment to bring together scholars from both sides of the
Atlantic. <br />
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<strong>The Amicus Poloniae Award</strong> recognizes significant contributions enhancing knowledge of Polish and Polish-American heritage by individuals not belonging to the Polish-American community. The 2018 Award was presented to <strong>Dr. Stephanie Kraft</strong>, a journalist who visited Poland for the first time 28 years ago and, after that visit, she decided to learn Polish. She is recognized as a translator of such novels as <em>Emancypantki (Emancipated Women</em>) by the 19th-century Polish novelist Boleslaw Prus, and <em>Stone Tablets</em> by Wojciech Zurkowski, and co-translated <em>Marta</em> by Eliza Orzeszkowa (2018). In one of her interviews, Stephanie Kraft said “I really want Polish literature to be better known… that’s really why I got involved in this.”
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<strong>The Joseph Swastek Award</strong> is given annually for the best article published during the previous year in a given volume of <em>Polish American Studies,</em> the journal of the Polish American Historical Association. This award, established in 1981, is named in honor of Rev. Joseph V. Swastek (1913-1977), the editor of <em>Polish American Studies</em> for many years, and a past president of PAHA. The PAS Editorial Board has decided to award the Swastek Prize to “Mighty Son of Poland: Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish Americans, and Sport in the 20thCentury,” by Prof. Neal Pease, PAS, 74/1 (2017): 7-26. This well-written and well- organized study of professional wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko (Jan Stanislaw Cyganiewicz) makes a persuasive argument based on extensive use of primary resources. <br />
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<strong>The James S. Pula Distinguished Service Award</strong> is given to a member of PAHA who has rendered valuable and sustained service to the organization. The 2018 Award was presented to <strong>Prof. Dorota Praszalowicz</strong> of Jagiellonian University in Poland, who has been contributing to the success of PAHA for a long time, including her role in securing Polish grants for PAHA’s 75th Anniversary Conference. The series of conferences titled American Ethnicity that she organizes every two years offers an outstanding opportunity for PAHA members to present their work, advance their expertise and knowledge, and connect with distinguished European scholars. <br />
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<strong>The Creative Arts Prize</strong> recognizes contributions in the field of creative arts by individuals or groups who have promoted an awareness of the Polish experience in the Americas. The 2018 Prize was presented to <strong>Ken Peplowski</strong> who, in the words of Russell Davies, is “arguably the greatest living jazz clarinetist.” Born to the Polish parents in Cleveland, Ken grew up to the tunes of Polish music. In a 2013 interview, Ken Peplowski said: “When you grow up in Cleveland, Ohio, playing in a Polish polka band, you learn to think fast on your feet.”
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<strong>The Skalny Civic Achievement Awards</strong> honor individuals or groups who advance PAHA's goals of promoting research and awareness of the Polish-American experience and/or have made significant contributions to Polish or Polish-American community and culture. The 2018 Skalny Awards recognize five outstanding individuals. <br />
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<strong>1. Stephen Kusmierczak</strong> made numerous contributions to the flourishing of Polish and Polish American culture: he serves on the Board of the Polish Museum of America and together with his wife Jamie actively invests time and funds for its advancement. Among the various charitable organizations and cultural institutions are the Gift of the Heart Foundation and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.<br />
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<strong>2. Joseph A. Drobot Jr.’s</strong> devotion to the cause of sustaining Polish-American communities spans over 50 years. Born in Detroit, he serves a number of esteemed economic institutions in Michigan, including the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America. He also serves as the Chairman of the Executive Board of The Polish Museum of America. <br />
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<strong>3. Edward Rajtar</strong> Edward Rajtar has been the Artistic Director, choreographer and dancer for the Dolina Polish Folk Dancers in the Twin Cities area, Minnesota, for the past 22 years; he also established dance groups for children and teenagers. He served on the board of directors of the the Polish Folk Dance Association of the Americas. In the 1980s and 90s, Rajtar served as president of the Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota (PACIM). Under his direction, PACIM represented the Polish community at the annual Festival of Nations in the Twin Cities and established a Polish Library.Since 2008, Edward Rajtar became one of the founding members of a tremendously popular Twin Cities Polish Festival, which for a few days in August gathers audiences of several thousand people from Minnesota and elsewhere in the Midwest to celebrate the Polish culture. Rajtar served as both co-chair and chair of the Festival, which is now in its tenth year. <br />
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<strong>5. Anne Gurnack</strong> has undertaken a number of efforts to mobilize both the Polish American community and to engage the Polish institutions to study, protect and promote Kaszub heritage in Milwaukee. She fostered cooperation between the Milwaukee Public Library and the Emigration Museum and contributed to the international cooperation between the Universities of Gdańsk and Wisconsin - Parkside. The hours of lobbying, perseverance and commitment extended to our students made this exchange a success. <br />
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<strong>The Graduate Student/Young Scholar Travel Grant</strong> to young and promising scholar in the humanities or social sciences. The winner receives a travel grant to present the paper at the PAHA Annual Meeting. This year PAHA recognized two young outstanding scholars: Weronika Grzebalska and Florence Vychytil-Baudoux.
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The anniversary year 2018 is winding down. PAHA celebrated its<a href="http://polishamericanstudies.org/text/97/75th.html" target="_blank"> 75th Anniversary</a> with a special conference held in Chicago at Loyola University Chicago in September, whereas all Polish communities celebrated Poland's 100th Anniversary of Regained Independence across the U.S. through October and November. The number and type of anniversary celebrations was staggering, with conferences, festivals, conferences, commissions of new works, recitals, film screenings, religious celebrations, theatrical premieres, school performances, receptions, and more.<br />
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While Poland was independent for just 50 of the past 100 years, the fact that the country was resurrected at all was a major miracle deserving our gratitude and pride. Congratulations and best wishes to all event organizers, attendees, speakers, dancers, musicians, actors, and chefs! It was a major effort of every Polish American community to celebrate the rebirth of their Old Country! Thank you very much!<br />
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One of the most notable celebrations was the worldwide tour of Polish Tallship, Dar Mlodziezy, that is in San Francisco on Dec 19 - 22 and will arrive in Los Angeles on Dec 25 to Dec 27, going down to San Diego afterwards. In Los Angeles area the tallship will be in the harbor of San Pedro.<br />
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Its worldwide tour is partly funded by Polish National Foundation and organized in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute of Poland, and the Foreign Ministry of Poland (and the local Consulates of the Republic of Poland along the route of the tallship). The crew includes hundreds of teens and young adults, some of whom will be able to come offshore and visit the places that they stopped in. The local residents will be able to visit the tallship and see its magic.<br />
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Meanwhile PAHA is returning to Chicago, for its 76th Annual Meeting held at Hilton Downtown, in association with the American Historical Association. The Awards Banquet will be at the Chopin Theatre on Saturday January 5, 2019. We selected this location partly to highlight the Chopin Theatre's 100th anniversary this year. For the program or registration information visit the website<br />
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<b>CHOPIN THEATRE CELEBRATES ITS 100th ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR!</b></div>
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The Chopin Theatre in Chicago celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. According to information provided by the Dyrkacz family, the theatre opened March 11, 1918 and was designed by architects Worthmann & Steinbach. It originally had 546 seats and was operated by Victor Bardonski. It was first opened as a motion picture theatre. In 1923, the site was renamed the Harding Theatre and the seating capacity was expanded to 987. By 1931 it was called the Chopin Theatre again. At some point it was also called the Pix.<br />
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The Chopin Theatre has always been very supportive of the ideas of PAHA: in 1980s it created & published 10,000 copies of “The Story Map of Poland” and distributed it to Polish schools and other organizations. In 1990, the Chopin Theatre saved from demolition four buildings on the Polish Triangle. After a decades-long fight with the Daley Administration, the activists associated with the Chopin Theatre won the restoration of the name “Polish Triangle” to the intersection of Milwaukee, Ashland and Division streets. The Chopin Theatre is located across the Polish Triangle in Chicago and since 1990 it has been owned and managed by the Dyrkacz Family. It is a multi-cultural arts center with three stages presenting over 500 theatrical, literary, film and music events annually. Visit: www.ChopinTheatre.com.<br />
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<b>JADWIGA BARANSKA RECEIVES THE 2018 MODJESKA PRIZE</b></div>
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Congratulations to the legendary actress Jadwiga Baranska for graciously receiving the Helena Mojeska Prize from the Helena Modjeska Art an Culture Club in Los Angeles. Established in 2010, the Modjeska Prize honors the most eminent Polish actors and commemorates the patron of the Modjeska Club, actress Helena Modrzejewska (Modjeska, 1840-1909). Previous Modjeska Prize recipients include Jan Nowicki, Barbara Krafftówna and Anna Dymna. More information is on the Modjeska Club blog. <a href="https://modjeskaclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/jadwiga-baranska-receives-2018-modjeska.html">https://modjeskaclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/jadwiga-baranska-receives-2018-modjeska.html</a></div>
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Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-54435429197036957532018-11-24T17:28:00.000-08:002018-11-24T17:28:40.502-08:00Valdosta State University Conference to Celebrate 100 Years of Poland's Regained Independence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Conference Celebrating the Centennial of Poland’s Rebirth in Georgia</b></div>
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Valdosta – Students, faculty, and local citizens attended a conference celebrating the centennial of Poland’s rebirth on 9 November 2018. Sponsored by the History Department of Valdosta State University (VSU), it was also supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington D.C., the Polish American Historical Association, the Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk (UG).<br />
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The conference featured four components: academic papers, a Polish lunch and trivia game, a student essay competition, and a film screening. Organized by visiting professor Anna Mazurkiewicz (UG) and John Dunn (VSU), their goal was to provide an introduction to Poland’s history and culture. This started with a collection of posters graciously provided by the Polish Embassy in Washington. These gave a real sense of the tremendous strides made by Poland in the last 30 years, along with enticing images that encourage students to consider a study abroad experience in 2019.<br />
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Mazurkiewicz established a focus of academic presentations, one that showed how America responded to crises in Polish history. The keynote speaker, Dr. Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM), started with a concise look at why Poland’s rebirth was important in an international context. Dunn followed up with an account of Paul Eve, the only native-born American who served with insurgents during the November Insurrection (1831), while Dr. Mathew Adams, Savannah State University, told of the many American connections to Poland’s 1918-1921 struggles, ranging from the Grey Samaritans to the Kościuszko Squadron. The academic papers concluded with Mazurkiewicz explaining 1980s America’s part in “Poland’s way out of Communism.”<br />
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With a sense that students were still hungry for knowledge about Poland, the next component featured an east-central European lunch. Guests were offered barszcz, bigos (regular and vegan), piernik and of course pierogi. Dr. Yakov Woldman, VSU Chemistry, earned a special distinction for making 100 of the pierogi Russian style, while Ewa Barczyk gained honor for bringing a suitcase full of pierogi and sausage from Milwaukee. An hour later, only a few slices of bread remained on the tables.<br />
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Barczyk, former director of the Library at UWM continued support for the conference by allowing students to submit encyclopedia entries for her upcoming book, A Guide to Polish Historical Sites in North America. Two students produced entries worthy of reward: Ms. Logan Mabey of Georgia, and Ms. Aylar M Chijayeva, a native of Turkmenistan. Both obtained a certificate, plus an award of $50.<br />
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The conference concluded with a screening of the Fourth Partition. This 2013 documentary directed by Adrian Prawica, tells the story of Polish emigration to America, all the way back to Jamestown. Following this, select participants enjoyed a celebratory banquet. Rumor has it Żubrówka, complete with bison grass, may have been served.<br />
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Participants judged the conference a success, as it helped cement the already good relations between Gdańsk and Valdosta Universities. Future plans include continuing exchanges of professors and students, while furthering a mutual interest in Polish History.Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-69555625633557497252018-11-09T11:05:00.002-08:002018-11-10T06:11:36.299-08:00Concerts to Celebrate 100th Years of Poland's Regained Independence - In Chicago, New York & L.A.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Music has been a crucial part of Polish national identity especially during the 123 years of partitions, when Poland disappeared from the maps of Europe, yet Polish culture survived in Polish homes and concert halls. Thus, music is a crucial part of celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Poland's Regained Independence. There are many concerts planned for this weekend, and some have already taken place. </div>
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<b>100 for 100 Concert at Carnegie Hall in New York</b></div>
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PWM Edition and the Polish Cultural Institute New York present Oratorio Society @ Carnegie Hall - a Concert Commemorating the Centennial of Poland's Regained Independence and the Armistice of the First World War on November 11, 1918 (Sunday at 2 pm). On this special occasion, the legendary and award winning Oratorio Society of New York will perform at Carnegie Hall featuring masterpieces by renowned Polish composers, Henryk Górecki and Karol Szymanowski, as well as an English composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams. The concert is part of the NYC Chapter of the 100 for 100. Musical Decades of Freedom program. The program includes Henryk Górecki, Euntes ibant et flebant; Karol Szymanowski, Stabat Mater, Op. 53, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem.<br />
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The Oratorio Society of New York (OSNY) is one of the city's oldest cultural organizations and since its foundation in 1873 has been an essential part of New York City's cultural fabric. OSNY has performed internationally across Europe, Asia, Latin and South Americas, and has won numerous awards including a UNESCO Commemorative Medal and the Cocos Island World Natural Heritage Site Award for its series of benefit concerts in Costa Rica.<br />
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Karol Szymanowski is considered one of the most renowned Polish composers of the Young Poland modernist movement. Rather than rely on the traditional Latin text of the Stabat Mater, Szymanowski based his piece on a modern Polish version by the writer and philosopher Józef Jankowski. Szymanowski's Stabat Mater, Op. 53 (Composed in 1925-26), combines authentic folk materials from the Tatra Mountains, echoes of old church songs, and post-Romantic orchestration.<br />
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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde in classic music, bringing together a genuine interest in Polish "roots" culture and folk traditions with a minimalist focus in his Euntes Ibant et Flebant, Op. 32 (Composed in 1972).<br />
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Ralph Vaughan Williams is the great symphonists and a composer of the utmost importance for English music of the 20th century. In spite of incorporating music written much earlier, Dona Nobis Pacem is all of a piece, aided by motivic evolutions that course almost instinctively through the entire work.<br />
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This concert is a part of 100 for 100: Musical Decades of Freedom is co-organized by PWM edition to celebrate the centenary of Poland regaining independence. On this day, ensembles from around the world are performing 100 works by Polish composers. It is held under the National Patronage of Andrzej Duda, the President of the Republic of Poland to mark the Centenary of Regaining Independence and financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the Multi-Annual Programme Niepodległa 2017-2021. This concert is also presented in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York.<br />
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<b>Chicago Philharmonic Proudly Celebrates Polish Classical Music </b></div>
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As Chicago’s vibrant Polish community celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the regaining of Polish independence, Chicago Philharmonic honors the rich music traditions of Poland and the importance of the community in the cultural history of Chicago in Chicago Philharmonic Festival: Poland 2018, November 7-11.The ambitious festivalwill present world-class Polish musicians and soloists, Polish-Chicago music and arts organizations, music from Polish composers, the Chicago Philharmonic orchestra, and Artistic Director Scott Speck across five concerts presented in five days throughout the city of Chicago culminating in a free performance on November 11 – the day celebrating the 100th year of independence and Armistice Day. The festival comes following a tour of 10 Chi Phil musicians to Poland in April of this year and this is the first project of its kind from the organization, with plans to celebrate Chicago’s many diverse communities with similar festivals in the future.<br />
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The festival opened on November 7 with a guest performance from award-winning Polish string ensemble The Silesian Quartet performing at Fourth Presbyterian Church in downtown Chicago. The quartet is known for their skilled, enthusiastic interpretations of Polish repertoire both timeless and contemporary; “The highest level of performance. They play like devils.” (NRC Handelsblad) The ensemble showcased their stunning textural range and artistry in masterful 20th century string quartets. Featured were trailblazing female composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s driving, expressive String Quartet No. 4, written in post-WWII Poland in 1951; String Quartet No. 2 by Karol Szymanowski, who took inspiration for the piece from the folk music of the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland; and String Quartet No. 1 by Henryk Górecki, which is centered around the 16th century Polish church song “Already it is Dusk”. Rounding out the program was String Quartet No. 3 (“Leaves of an Unwritten Diary”) by beloved Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.<br />
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On November 8, the festival continued at the stunning St. John Cantius Church (named “The Most Beautiful Church in America” in 2016) with a solo performance from Kraków born and raised organ master Andrzej Białko. Recipient of the Polish Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis, Białko performed organ music from Poland, Eastern Europe, and North America on the church’s historic 92-year old Casavant Frères pipe organ. The program began with Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt as the composer explored the popular B-A-C-H motif in music. Also featured were pieces by Polish composers including church and organ composer Mieczysław Surzyński, living sacred choral music composer Paweł Łukaszewski, and a Christmas Carol-inspired fantasy Christmas Eve on Wawel Hill by Feliks Nowowiejski. Also performed was an excerpt from prominent Czech composer Petr Eben’s“Job” for Organ cycle. In addition to these Eastern European composers, Białko completed the program with English-Canadian Healy Willan’s Five Preludes, influenced by the composer’s love of Gregorian chants.<br />
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In partnership with the Polish Museum of America, the Chicago Philharmonic will present jazz pianist Piotr Orzechowski on November 9 at the museum in an evening event with music, food, and drink. Orzechowski will bring his 24 Preludes and Improvisations, based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s pivotal 24 Preludes and Fugues. The first ever Pole to win the prestigious 1st Prize at Montreux Jazz Festival, Orzechowski’s 24 Preludes and Improvisations allow his extraordinary composition and improvisational talents to shine.<br />
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On Saturday, November 10, the festival’s first full orchestral concert, Celebrate Polonia, will take place at the Copernicus Center. Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago Piotr Janicki will introduce this concert. Joined by young piano virtuoso Łukasz Krupiński, the Chicago Philharmonic and Principal Conductor Scott Speck will perform legendary Polish pianist, composer, and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s Piano Concerto and Frédéric Chopin’s dazzling, technically demanding Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante for solo piano and orchestra.Also featured is Karol Szymanowski’s Concert Overture, masterfully orchestrated in the style of the composer’s contemporary Richard Strauss. Finishing the program is the Tragic Overture by 20th century composer Sir Andrzej Panufnik, composed in secret during World War II and later reconstructed by the composer from memory after the score was lost in the devastating fires of the Warsaw Uprising. Pre-concert entertainment will be provided by the Lira Ensemble singers, Chicago’s premier Polish music ensemble.<br />
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November 11 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the regaining of Polish Independence and Armistice Day. Chicago Philharmonic will join in the worldwide celebration with a free performance of Polish composer Wojciech Kilar’s Missa pro pace (Concert for Peace).Kilar has composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, and soloists, but is best known for his film score compositions including those for The Pianist and Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Kilar’s 2001 Mass, Missa pro pace, was composed for a full symphony orchestra, mixed choir, organ, and a quartet of vocal soloists. The piece is inspired by the composer’s deeply spiritual background, and was performed in the presence of Pope John Paul II, the first Polish pope. The performance will be presented in a liturgical setting in Chicago’s stunning St. Hyacinth Basilica. Chicago Philharmonic will be joined by Kilar expert conductor Marek Mośand guest vocal soloists. Also included in the program is the world premiere of Fanfara by Krysztof Penderecki, commissioned by PWM edition and being performed in 11 cities around the world all on November 11.Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago Piotr Janicki will speak before the concert on this historic day.<br />
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Celebrate Polonia, November 10, 7:30pm, Copernicus Center, 5216 W Lawrence Ave,<br />
Scott Speck conductor, Łukasz Krupiński, piano: Paderewski Piano Concerto; Chopin Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante; Szymanowski Concert Overture; Panufnik Tragic Overture<br />
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Concert for Peace, November 11, 1:30pm, St. Hyacinth Basilica, 3636 W Wolfram Street,<br />
Chicago Philharmonic with members of Paderewski Symphony Chorus, Marek Moś conductor, Natalia Rubiś soprano, Katarzyna Sądej mezzo-soprano, Jesse Donner tenor, Kurt Link bass, Andrzej Białko organ. Program: Wojciech Kilar Missa pro pace (Mass for Peace). chicagophilharmonic.org<br />
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Full program reprinted on Chopin with Cherries <a href="http://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2018/11/polish-music-festival-by-chicago.html" target="_blank">blog: http://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2018/11/polish-music-festival-by-chicago.html</a><br />
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<b>Polish Organ Music at the Cathedral in Los Angeles, November 10, 2018</b></div>
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Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles invites to concert of Polish organ music performed by Jan Bokszczanin professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. The program will include music by Karol Szymanowski, Mieczysław Surzyński, Feliks Borowski, Feliks Nowowiejski, Marian Sawa and Johann Sebastian Bach. The concert will take place on November 10, 2018, at 18.00 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W Temple St., 90012 Los Angeles. The organ concert will be held directly after the Mass for the Homeland on the Centenary of Poland's Regaining of Independence (the service will start at 17.00)<br />
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Professor Jan Bokszczanin graduated from the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw in the class of prof. Joachim Grubich in 2000. In later years he was a doctoral scholarship holder at the University of North Texas (USA), where he studied under the direction of an eminent pedagogue prof. Jesse E. Eschbach (graduate of master classes Marie Claire Alain and Marie Madeleine Durufle). He also completed the class of Chamber Ensemble and Baroque Game Practice under the supervision of prof. Lenory McCroskey (graduates of master studies of Prof. Gustav Leonhardt). <br />
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He has performed in most of Europe, Russia, Asia and the USA. He has given organ recitals at such prestigious venues as: Notre Dame de Paris, Freiberg Cathedral, Bruges Cathedral, University Chappell in Glasgow, Catholic Cathedral in Moscow and Meyerson Symphony Hall in Dallas (USA). He has held over 50 organ recitals in philharmonic halls around the world.<br />
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Jan Bokszczanin has recorded over twenty CDs with organ music for renowned record labels. Four notebooks with Marian Sawa's works were published by the Polihymnia Lublin publishing house. Many contemporary composers wrote for him, among others, Marian Sawa, Krzesimir Dębski, Adam Sławiński, Paweł Łukaszewski, Miłosz Bembinow, Alicja Gronau-Osińska, Dariusz Przybylski, Weronika Ratusińska, Piotr Tabakiernik, Ignacy Zalewski and Paweł Wróbel. Marian Sawa dedicated him to eight of the eleven compositions composed for him.<br />
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Jan Bokszczanin works as a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (Białystok). He also holds the position of a Deputy Dean at the same university.<br />
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<b>Pianist Kate Liu Appears in a Gala Concert in Los Angeles</b></div>
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A Gala Concert to Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Poland Regaining Independence 1918-2018 took place at Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, on November 5, 2018, with American pianist of Singaporean descent, Kate Liu. Organized by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland with the assistance of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, the Gala Concert was sponsored by the Polish National Foundation (concert) and Polish Investment and Trade Agency (reception). The program included works by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Fryderyk Chopin (mazurkas) and Beethoven's sublime sonata Op. 110. This was a star studded evening, with Poland's Senator Anna Maria Anders, Secretary of State for International Dialogue who flew in for one night! Also, many celebrities, including Wojciech Kocyan, pianist, Katarzyna Sadej, mezzosoprano, Kasia Smiechowicz and Marek Probosz aktors, Marcin Gortat from the Clippers, and many representatives of Polish American organizations from San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Francisco.<br />
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Born in Singapore in 1994, Kate Liu began to study piano at the age of four and moved with her family to the Chicago area when she was eight. She continued her studies at the Music Institute of Chicago and graduated from the New Trier High School in 2012. Currently she is studying at Curtis Institute of Music. Winner of the First Prize at the 2010 New York International Piano Competition in New York City and at the 2015 Chopin Competition in Daegu, South Korea, Katie Liu was also a prizewinner at the 2010 Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition in Oberlin, 2011 Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists in Hilton Head, 2012 Eastman Young Artist International, and 2014 Montreal International Musical Competition. In 2015 Kate Liu was the Third Prize winner at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw and the recipient of the Polish Radio Special Prize for her performance of Chopin’s Mazurkas. Widely popular with the Polish public, Kate Liu received the highest number of votes cast by listeners of the Second Program of the Polish Radio, and won the “My Chopin” contest. In the opinion of listeners, she was the best pianist of the 2015 Chopin Competition.</div>
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<b>Katarzyna Sadej in 100 Years of Poland in Music Concert in Beverly Hills</b></div>
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The concert "100 Years of Poland in Music" featured Katarzyna Sadej (mezzosoprano) and Basia Bochenek (piano) with a special guest appearance by film composer & pianist Miro Kępiński. The event was held at Beverly Hills, CA, on Saturday, October 20, 2018, 6 p.m. and organized in collaboration with the Polish Film Festival of Los Angeles.Program included Zakazane piosenki – Inspiracje / Forbidden Songs – Inspirations, by Miro Kepinski, based on songs from the 1946 musical about occupied Poland, e.g. Zielone Jabłuszko, Hymn Szarych Szeregów, Kto handluje ten żyje, and a vocal recital by Sadej and Bochenek featuring patriotic songs, Hej, Orle Biały / Hey White Eagle<br />
(1917) by Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941); Dziś do Ciebie przyjść nie mogę / I Cannot Come to You Tonight by Stanisław Magierski, written for the Home Army in German-occupied Poland during WWII, and Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino / Red Poppies on Monte Cassino (1944) by Feliks Konarski (text) and Alfred Schütz (music), written for the Polish II Corps of Gen. W. Anders. The program included Five Songs by Derwid (Witold Lutoslawski) from the upcoming CD by Sadej and Bochenek, as well as "100 Years of Poland in Music– Remarks" by Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D. President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club.<br />
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Miro Kępiński is an award-winning film composer, producer and performer. His music mixes minimalism with a ‘rawness’ of the north and a Slavic melancholy blended with classic themes. Miro’s recent credits include: a multiple-award winning feature documentary, The Wounds We Cannot See; a dark-comedy, Suicide For Beginners (with Sig Haig and Corey Feldman); In This Gray Place, his feature debut (with Phil LaMarr) and Lord Finn.<br />
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Katarzyna Sadej, a Polish-Canadian-American Mezzo-soprano was born in Wrocław, Poland, and is based in Los Angeles, California. Her international, eclectic career spans concert, opera, chamber music, oratorio, recital and voice-over performance. She has performed numerous world premieres and has had over a dozen new works composed especially for her. Recent opera performances: L.A. Opera debut as the Page of Herodias in Strauss’ Salome, SOPAC Ottawa debut as Le Prince Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon, and the title role of Bizet’s Carmen in the Palm Springs Opera Guild annual gala. Upcoming highlights include her debut with the Chicago Philharmonic as the alto soloist in Wojciech Kilar’s Missa Pro Pace, her Chinese debut at Opera Chengdu as Giannetta in Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore, and her debut with conductor Alexander Shelley as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the NAC Ottawa. Her debut at Walt Disney Hall was with the Pacific American Chorale (alto solo in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony). Other notable debuts: Industry Opera, Carnegie Hall, Festival Mozaic, the National Theater in Taipei, the Nuits Blanches Festival of Toronto, San Diego Opera, the Ravinia Festival as a Steans Fellow, the 2012 London Olympics, the Ojai International Music Festival, the Montenegrin National Theater, the Lviv (Ukraine) and Banatul (Romania) Philharmonics, the Music Biennale Zagreb, the Bard Summerscape Music Festival, the Cartagena International Music Festival, Harvard University, and more notable venues. www.katarzynasadej.com<br />
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Basia Bochenek, a Polish-American pianist, is an avid performer of classical music, whose passion and dedication for collaborative arts brought her to venues throughout the U.S. and Europe,working with world-renowned composers, incredible musicians and great conductors. Basia has made Los Angeles her home. Her performances include world premieres and new interpretations of art songs as well as chamber music. Basia has worked with Robert Jason Brown, Richard Faith, Anne LeBaron, Lori Laitman, Libby Larsen and Sofia Gubaidulina, among others. In the exploration of performing lesser known music by Polish composers as well as art songs, Basia works with Katarzyna Sadej. Their dedication to exploring new approach to art songs began at Songfest. Basia has worked at the California Institute of the Arts, coaching young artists, accompanying opera productions, recitals, classical works and musical theatre. Other engagements include accompanying the studios of acclaimed artists, such as LA Philharmonic concertmaster Martin Chalifour, Vermeer Quartet violist Richard Young, baritones Rod Gilfry and Sherrill Milnes. Her collaborations include performances with mezzo-sopranos Suzanna Guzman, soprano Ashley Maria Bahri, violinists Roberto Cani, Mark Menzies, Lorenz Gamma and Cheryl Norman-Brick. www.basiabochenek.com<br />
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More information: <a href="https://modjeskaclub.blogspot.com/2018/10/100-years-of-poland-in-music-with.html">https://modjeskaclub.blogspot.com/2018/10/100-years-of-poland-in-music-with.html</a><br />
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Remarks by Maja Trochimczyk: <a href="https://modjeskaclub.blogspot.com/2018/10/100-years-of-poland-in-music-text-of.html">https://modjeskaclub.blogspot.com/2018/10/100-years-of-poland-in-music-text-of.html</a><br />
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And let us end with quite another concert: greetings from Lithuanian Railways to Poland, with the train horns performing the Polish national anthem; quite an amusing presentation, indeed.<br />
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<br />Maja Trochimczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070404303173790701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444960056640872664.post-50195394652463637442018-10-29T15:53:00.001-07:002018-11-04T18:57:06.210-08:00Polish American Studies Vol. 75 - Two Issues in 2018 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Autumn 2018 issue of Polish American Studies is here! The striking cover image is by Wladyslaw Benda. Benda was born in 1873 in Poznan, Poland, and lived and worked in the United States since 1899. He died in Newark, NJ, in 1948. Benda was an accomplished artist and illustrator, and creator of theatrical masks. This PAS cover image was featured in Life magazine in 1922.<br />
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The issue brings four research articles. Jill Walker Gonzales analyzes an 1883 biography of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, written by A. Walton White Evans. The biography reflects both the celebration of Poland's culture and military heroism, and the anxieties of the Gilded Age era.<br />
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Stephen M. Leahy examines the events of Alabama Governor George Wallace's presidential campaign in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1964. Leahy challenges the prevailing but inaccurate assumption about Milwaukee's Polish Americans as "white ethnic racists."<br />
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Joanna Wojdon presents an insightful picture of everyday life and work of the Warsaw Communist regime's intelligence officers employed within the PRL diplomatic structures in the Cold War United States. Wojdon asserts that they acted not only as "people of the regime" but also temporary migrants, who developed their own strategies for for survival.<br />
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Joanna Kulpinska, the winner of PAHA's Graduate Student Award in 2016, shares her research on the chain migration from the village of Babica, Poland. She examines migration patterns and motivations of forty-eight families, who left Babica in recent decades.<br />
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The issues includes also reviews of books by Urszula Chowaniec, G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Jaroslaw Klaczkow, Jan Krawiec, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich, Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz, and Beata Dorosz, as well as a review of the Polish Past in Chicago Exhibit by the Polish Museum of America.<br />
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<b>CONTENTS OF THE 2018 FALL ISSUE OF PAS, VOL 75. NO. 2</b><br />
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IN MEMORIAM<br />
Mark Kulikowski (James S. Pula)<br />
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EDITORIAL NOTE<br />
by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann<br />
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ARTICLES<br />
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<li>Broken and Broke: Financial Loss and Fragmentation in A. Walton White Evans’s Memoir of Thaddeus Kosciuszko. By Jill Walker Gonzalez </li>
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<li>George Wallace and the Myth of the White Ethnic Backlash in Milwaukee, 1958-1964. By Stephen M. Leahy</li>
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<li>A Portrait of the Intelligence Officers of the Polish People’s Republic in the United States. By Joanna Wojdon</li>
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<li>Multigenerational Migration Chains of Families from the Village of Babica – An Attempt to Create a Typology. By Joanna Kulpińska</li>
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REVIEWS<br />
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<li>Urszula Chowaniec, Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing (Mary Patrice Erdmans</li>
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<li>G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self (Grażyna Maria Teresa Branny)</li>
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<li>JarosławKłaczkow, The Polish Protestant Emigration in Western Europe, America, and Australia in the 19th and 20th Centuries (John M. Grondelski)</li>
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<li>Jan Krawiec, Od Bachórca do Chicago: Wspomnienia (Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann)</li>
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<li>LucynaAleksandrowicz-Pedich, Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction after World War Two (Thomas J. Napierkowski)</li>
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<li>“Polish Past in Chicago 1851-1941/Dawne polskie Chicago 1850-1941: Exhibition Drawn from Photographic Archives of The Polish Museum of America” (Ann Hetzel Gunkel)</li>
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<li>Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz, Artyści Andersa. Continuità e Novità (Maja Trochimczyk)</li>
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<li>Beata Dorosz, ed. Od New Orleans do Mississauga. Polscy Pisarze w Stanach Zjednoczonych i Kanadzie po II Wojnie Światowej (Najnowsze Badania) (Grażyna Kozaczka)</li>
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<b>CONTENTS OF THE SPRING ISSUE VOL 75 NO. 1</b><br />
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EDITORIAL NOTE by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann.<br />
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ARTICLES: <br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Polish Participation in the Anti-Slavery Crusade,” by James S. Pula<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“A Winter’s Tale on the Chesapeake: The Hardships Endured by Polish Oyster Dredgers before the First World War,” by Thomas L. Hollowak<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Polish Souls in North America for Christ: Polish Baptist Churches in Rochester, New York, and Wilmington, Delaware,” by Kathleen Urbanic and Thomas Duszak<br />
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REVIEWS:<br />
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⦁ Anna Rudek-Śmiechowska, Władysław Teodor Benda. Życie i twórczość polsko-amerykańskiego ilustratora i twórcy masek [Władysław Teodor Benda. Life and works of a Polish-American illustrator and mask creator] (Maja Dziedzic) <br />
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⦁ Polonaises aux champs. Lettres de femmes immigrées dans les campagnes françaises (1930-1935), ed. by Sylvie Aprive, Maryla Laurent, Janine Ponty [Polish women on the fields. Letters of immigrant women from the French countryside (1930-1935)] (Anna Łysiak-Łątkowska)<br />
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⦁ Rachel Feldhay Brenner, The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939—1945 (Barbara Rylko-Bauer)<br />
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⦁ Joshua C. Blank, Creating Kashubia. History, Memory, and Identity in Canada’s First Polish Community (Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf)<br />
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⦁ Tara Zahra, The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World (Radosław Misiarz)<br />
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⦁ Czesław Karkowski, Na Emigracji (Grażyna J. Kozaczka)<br />
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⦁ Marek Liszka, Życie kulturalne Polonii orawskiej w Chicago [Cultural Life of Orawa Polonia in Chicago] (Thaddeus V. Gromada)<br />
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