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The Family Tree Polish, Czech and Slovak Genealogy Guide: ...

The Family Tree Polish, Czech and Slovak Genealogy Guide: ...

Lisa Alzo

How to Trace Your Family Tree in Eastern Europe Lisa Alzo. Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, second edition by William F. Hoffman (Polish Genealogical Society of America, 2001) Sto Lat: A Modern Approach to Polish Genealogy by ...
Polish Joke and Other Plays: Including Don Juan in Chicago, ...

Polish Joke and Other Plays: Including Don Juan in Chicago, ...

David Ives

This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All In The Timing: Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes.
Polish sociological review: quarterly of the Polish ...

Polish sociological review: quarterly of the Polish ...

Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne

sociological review ISSN 1231 - 1413 MAGDALENA WALIGORSKA European University Institute, Florence A Goy Fiddler on the Roof How the Non-Jewish Participants of the Klezmer Revival in Krakow Negotiate Their Polish Identity in a  ...
From a Polish Country House Kitchen: 90 Recipes for the ...

From a Polish Country House Kitchen: 90 Recipes for the ...

Anne Applebaum

In a Polish Country House Kitchen celebrates long-distance friendships with a love of food at the core, bringing the good, sustaining foods of Anne's Polish country home into kitchens the world over.
Polish-American Studies

Polish-American Studies

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Such a consideration is implied, for instance, in the analysis of Janusz Osuchowski, a contemporary Polish historian of law, who claims that the 1925 Concordat was not only drafted to the advantage of the Church, but also reflected a special ...
Polish American Studies

Polish American Studies

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Such a consideration is implied, for instance, in the analysis of Janusz Osuchowski, a contemporary Polish historian of law, who claims that the 1925 Concordat was not only drafted to the advantage of the Church, but also reflected a special ...
Beyond The Uprising: A Polish Girl's Journey

Beyond The Uprising: A Polish Girl's Journey

Cynthia Grant Bowman

She has been very active in the Polish-American community in Chicago since that time. Intrigued by Maria’s past, Professor Bowman asked her to tell her story. This book is the result.
The Polish Review

The Polish Review

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LIII, No. 1, 2008:73-95 ©2008 The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America Serhiy Bilenky THE CLASH OF MENTAL GEOGRAPHIES: POLES ON UKRAINE, UKRAINIANS ON POLAND IN THE TIME OF ROMANTICISM1 After the final ...
比較:在住日本研究者が語る日本の美術と音楽

比較:在住日本研究者が語る日本の美術と音楽

国際日本文化研究センター

... the Japanese art collection of the National Museum in Krakow, gained an exceptional position within Polish culture, the echo of which is still audible.4 1 Jasienski 1906, p. 3. 2 Ibid., p. 19. 3 Ewa Machotka, The Conception of Polish National ...
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945

Joshua D. Zimmerman

In particular, Shmuel Krakowski's assertion that Home Army commander, General Bór-Komorowski, sanctioned assaults against Jewish partisans came under close scrutiny.27 The late Polish American historian, Stanislaus A. Blejwas, ...
Minnesota History

Minnesota History

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... Polish Community of Southeastern Minnesota by the Polish Cultural Institute and Sliore- vieiv, Minnesota by Verna Rusler (both 1 28 p., 200+ photos, paper, $19.95). Readers with personal connections to the Kashubian Poles who settled in ...
Polish Encounters, Russian Identity

Polish Encounters, Russian Identity

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Halina Goldberg The presence of characteristically Polish dance elements among what is deemed quintessentially Russian repertory is astounding— Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, and Scriabin ...
Maryland

Maryland

Leslie Pietrzyk

"I've been to the Polish festival at Patterson Park," said Baltimorean Melissa Berg. "It's a big outdoor party: polka bands and accordions, food you can't get anywhere else like three different versions of bigos [a stew, sometimes called the Polish ...
Divided, But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the ...

Divided, But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the ...

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Sheldon Anderson □□□ There is an old Polish saying that 'As long as the world is whole, no German will be a brother to a Pole'.1 This fraternal reference is an apt metaphor for East German–Polish relations after the Second World War.
Introduction to Polish Law

Introduction to Polish Law

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L. Frendl, 'The Law of Persons' in D. Lasok (ed.), Polish Civil Law in Z. Szirmai ( ed.), Law in Eastern Europe, no. 18(I), (A.W. Sijthoff, Leyden, 1973), p. 39. J. Gidynski, 'Virtual Confiscation of Dwelling Houses in Post-War Poland' (1962) 11 Am.
Polish American Studies

Polish American Studies

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... i Muzyki Kaszubsko-Pomorskiej, 2005. 250 pp. (Kashubians in America: sketches and materials) Torznik, Bemadine A. Siolka. A Field of memories of a Polish farm family in Maple Grove. Pulaski, WI: Torznik, 2002. Unpaged. Trafny, John ...
Polish Sociological Review: Quarterly of the Polish ...

Polish Sociological Review: Quarterly of the Polish ...

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Jan Poleszczuk (University of Warsaw) read a paper on community of knowledge and communication rituals. Michal Wenzel (Public Opinion Research Centre) spoke of the cognitive role of dynamic research, and Stanislaw Jedrzejewski ...
The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture

The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture

Bozena Shallcross

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, BoÅ1⁄4ena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible ...
Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996

Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996

Piotr Wróbel

It is crucial to European security and stabilization; yet the list of reference books on recent Polish history is very short. This book fills that gap, providing information on Polish political, economic, and cultural history since 1945.
Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of ...

Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of ...

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INTRODUCTION Home Truths Toward a Definition of the Polish Home Bożena Shallcross Wherever we can point to human beings, there we point to somebody's home—with all the kindly meaning of that word. —YiFu Tuan Horses, razors, ...
Chopin's Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National ...

Chopin's Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National ...

Jonathan Bellman

... and amateur music.9 Most recently, Halina Goldberg has demonstrated Chopin's indebtedness to the full spectrum of the Polish consumer music of his youth: dance music (including the nationalistic, non-salon krakowiak), vocal serenades ...
Polish Psychological Bulletin

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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Committee for Psychological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences Dariusz Dolinski Editorial Board Jerzy Brzezinski, Janusz Czapinski, Stephen Dewsbury, IDA KURCZ, JERZY MACZYNSKI, TOMASZ MARUSZEWSKI, SLAWOMIR ...
Polish Sociological Review: Quarterly of the Polish ...

Polish Sociological Review: Quarterly of the Polish ...

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sociological review ISSN 1231 -1413 JOLANTA BABIUCH University of Warsaw The Catholic Church in Post-Communist Europe Abstract: This three-part article draws on an analysis of personal interviews and socio- -economic data compiled  ...
The golden age and beyond: Polish-Jewish history : a ...

The golden age and beyond: Polish-Jewish history : a ...

Jacques Kornberg

JACQUES KORNBERG Preface The four pieces in this collection, taken together, survey the history of Polish Jewry from the pre-partition era to the present. Their authors offer new, challenging perspectives. Gershon Hundert portrays a secure  ...
A Successfully Failed Pact: The Polish Political Transition ...

A Successfully Failed Pact: The Polish Political Transition ...

Marjorie Castle

The Polish Political Transition of 1989 Marjorie Castle. A SUCCESSFULLY FAILED PACT THE POLISH POLITICAL TRANSITION OF 1989 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE OF STANFORD ...
Polska: New Polish Cooking

Polska: New Polish Cooking

Zuza Zak

In Polska, young food writer Zuza Zak presents her contemporary take on Polish cuisine, with over 100 recipes for snacks and party foods, soups, preserves, breads, fish, meat and poultry, salads and veg, and cakes and desserts.
The Family Tree Polish, Czech And Slovak Genealogy Guide: ...

The Family Tree Polish, Czech And Slovak Genealogy Guide: ...

Lisa A. Alzo

Numerous websites offer online access to obituaries, including GenealogyBank < www.genealogybank.com> ... The Polish Genealogical Society of America has the death notice indexes from Dziennik Chicagoski, Chicago's ...
Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl? ...

Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl? ...

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Sur. Terence. Diggory. Michael Polish's film adaptation (2013) of Jack Kerouac's Big Sur (1962) stakes out a claim to authenticity based on faithfulness to Kerouac's language. 'The nice thing about the adaptation', Polish (n.d.) explains, ' is that I ...
History of Chicago, Illinois

History of Chicago, Illinois

John Moses

D. F. McGuire; Holy Trinity, Rev. D. M.Thiele; Immaculate Conception (German), Rev. P. L. Biermann; Immaculate Conception (Polish), Rev, S. M. Pyplatz; St. Adel - bert's (Polish), Rev. J. Rudziejewski; St. Agnes, Rev. J. Hemlock; St. Aloysius ...

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