Author: Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
American Warsaw
Author: Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
Polish Americans
Author: James S. Pula
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780805784381
Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Polish American community has long been identified with three characteristics that the early immigrants brought with them to America, writes Pula: "an affection and concern for their ancestral homeland, a deep religious faith, and a sense of shared cultural values." Prominent among these values are family loyalty, a desire for property ownership, and pride in self-sufficiency.
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780805784381
Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Polish American community has long been identified with three characteristics that the early immigrants brought with them to America, writes Pula: "an affection and concern for their ancestral homeland, a deep religious faith, and a sense of shared cultural values." Prominent among these values are family loyalty, a desire for property ownership, and pride in self-sufficiency.
Traitors and True Poles
Author: Karen Majewski
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821441116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
During Poland’s century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland’s reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as they used their work to define and consolidate an essentially transnational ethnic identity that was both tied to Poland and independent of it. By introducing these varied and forgotten works into the scholarly discussion, Traitors and True Poles recasts the literary landscape to include the immigrant community’s own competing visions of itself. The conversation between Polonia’s creative voices illustrates how immigrants manipulated often difficult economic, social, and political realities to provide a place for and a sense of themselves. What emerges is a fuller picture of American literature, one vital to the creation of an ethnic consciousness. This is the first extended look at Polish-language fiction written by turn-of-the-century immigrants, a forgotten body of American ethnic literature. Addressing a blind spot in our understanding of immigrant and ethnic identity and culture, Traitors and True Poles challenges perceptions of a silent and passive Polish immigration by giving back its literary voice.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821441116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
During Poland’s century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland’s reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as they used their work to define and consolidate an essentially transnational ethnic identity that was both tied to Poland and independent of it. By introducing these varied and forgotten works into the scholarly discussion, Traitors and True Poles recasts the literary landscape to include the immigrant community’s own competing visions of itself. The conversation between Polonia’s creative voices illustrates how immigrants manipulated often difficult economic, social, and political realities to provide a place for and a sense of themselves. What emerges is a fuller picture of American literature, one vital to the creation of an ethnic consciousness. This is the first extended look at Polish-language fiction written by turn-of-the-century immigrants, a forgotten body of American ethnic literature. Addressing a blind spot in our understanding of immigrant and ethnic identity and culture, Traitors and True Poles challenges perceptions of a silent and passive Polish immigration by giving back its literary voice.
The First Polish Americans
Author: T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890967256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An account of the ethnic Polish immigrants who left Upper Silesia, then part of Prussia, and settled in Texas in the 1850s. They formed the first organized Polish American communities in America.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890967256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An account of the ethnic Polish immigrants who left Upper Silesia, then part of Prussia, and settled in Texas in the 1850s. They formed the first organized Polish American communities in America.
Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago
Author: Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226644240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Chronicles the experiences of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods in Chicago to demonstrate how Poles created new communities in an attempt to preserve the customs of their homeland.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226644240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Chronicles the experiences of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods in Chicago to demonstrate how Poles created new communities in an attempt to preserve the customs of their homeland.
The Exile Mission
Author: Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415263
Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Considering the two distinct Polish immigrant groups after World War II - the Polish-American descendants of pre-war ecomomic migrants and polish refugees fleeing communism - this study explores the uneasy challenge to reconcile concepts of responsibility toward their homeland.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415263
Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Considering the two distinct Polish immigrant groups after World War II - the Polish-American descendants of pre-war ecomomic migrants and polish refugees fleeing communism - this study explores the uneasy challenge to reconcile concepts of responsibility toward their homeland.
The Polish Peasant in Europe and America
Author: William Isaac Thomas
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015643840
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015643840
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Polish Americans and Their History
Author: John J Bukowczyk
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This rich collection brings together the work of eight leading scholars to examine the history of Polish-American workers, women, families, and politics.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This rich collection brings together the work of eight leading scholars to examine the history of Polish-American workers, women, families, and politics.
Chicago's Polish Downtown
Author: Victoria Granacki
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439614989
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Illustrating the first 75 years of Chicago's influential Polish neighborhood. Polish Downtown is Chicago's oldest Polish settlement and was the capital of American Polonia from the 1870s through the first half of the 20th century. Nearly all Polish undertakings of any consequence in the U.S. during that time either started or were directed from this part of Chicago's near northwest side. Chicago's Polish Downtown features some of the most beautiful churches in Chicago - St. Stanislaus Kostka, Holy Trinity and St. John Cantius - stunning examples of Renaissance and Baroque Revival architecture that form part of the largest concentration of Polish parishes in Chicago. The headquarters for almost every major Polish organization in America were clustered within blocks of each other and four Polish-language daily newspapers were published here. The heart of the photographic collection in this book is from the extensive library and archives of the Polish Museum of America, still located in the neighborhood today.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439614989
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Illustrating the first 75 years of Chicago's influential Polish neighborhood. Polish Downtown is Chicago's oldest Polish settlement and was the capital of American Polonia from the 1870s through the first half of the 20th century. Nearly all Polish undertakings of any consequence in the U.S. during that time either started or were directed from this part of Chicago's near northwest side. Chicago's Polish Downtown features some of the most beautiful churches in Chicago - St. Stanislaus Kostka, Holy Trinity and St. John Cantius - stunning examples of Renaissance and Baroque Revival architecture that form part of the largest concentration of Polish parishes in Chicago. The headquarters for almost every major Polish organization in America were clustered within blocks of each other and four Polish-language daily newspapers were published here. The heart of the photographic collection in this book is from the extensive library and archives of the Polish Museum of America, still located in the neighborhood today.
Polish Immigrants, 1890-1920
Author: Rosemary Wallner
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736812085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Discusses the reasons Polish people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences the immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736812085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Discusses the reasons Polish people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences the immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.