Polish American History, Life & Values
Basics:
On the Web: Specialized Sites
American Council for Polish Culture.
Bukowczyk, John. "'Mary the Messiah': Polish immigrant heresy & the malleable ideology of the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1880-1930," in J. Obelkevich & Others, Disciplines of Faith (London, 1987), p. 371-89.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bolek, Francis. The Polish American School System (NY: Columbia Press Corp., 1948).
Gladsky, Thomas S. Princes, Peasants & Other Polish Selves: Ethnicity in American Literature (Amherst: U. Massachusetts, 1992).
__________ & Rita Holmes Gladsky (eds.) Something of My Very Own to Say: American Women Writers of Polish Descent (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1997).
Holli, Melvin g. & Peter d'A. Jones (eds.) The Ethnic Frontier: Group Survival in Chicago & the Midwest (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977).
Kantowicz, Edward R. Polish-American Politics in Chicago, 1888-1940 (Chicago: U. Chicago, 1975).
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. The Last Fine Time (NY: Knopf, 1991). Saloon keepers in Buffalo.
Kowalik, Jan. The Polish Press in America (San Francisco: R&E Associates, 1978).
Majewski, Karen. Traitors & True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939 (Athens: Ohio U, 2003).
Nowak, Margaret Collingwood. Two Who Were There: A Biography of Stanley Nowak (Detroit: Wayne State U., 1989).
Petesch, Natalie L.M. The Immigrant Train & Other Stories (Athens: Ohio U., 1996).
Pienkos, Angela T. (ed.) Ethnic Politics in Urban America: The Polish Experience in Four Cities (Chicago: Polish American Historical Association, 1978).
Raphael, Lev. Winter Eyes: A Novel About Secrets (NY: St. Martin's, 1992).
Silverman, Deborah Anders. Polish-American Folklore (Urbana: U. Illinois, 2000).
Wielecki, Henryk. Silver Eagle, Golden Eagle: Polish-American Military Traditions since 1776 (Warsaw: Muzeum Wojska Polskiego, 1999).
Wood, Arthur Evans. Hamtramck, Then & Now: A Sociological Study of a Polish-American Community (NY: Bookman, 1955).
Zurawski, Joseph W. Polish American History & Culture: A Classified Bibliography (Chicago: Polish Museum of America, 1975).
In the Library: Fiction
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Dancing with Dziadziu (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1997).
Bukoski, Anthony. Time Between Trains: Stories (Dallas: Southern Methodist U., 2003).
Leighton, Maxine Rhea. An Ellis Island Christmas (NY: Viking, 1992).
Maillard, Keith. The Clarinet Polka (NY: Thomas Dunne, 2003).
Pietrzyk, Leslie. Pears on a Willow Tree (NY: Bard, 1998).
Proulx, Annie. Accordion Crimes (NY: NY: Scribner, 1996).
Shea, Suzanne Strempek. Selling the Life of Heaven (NY: Pocket, 1994).
Slezak, Ellen. Last Year's Jesus: A Novella & Nine Stories (NY: Theia, 2002).
Sontag, Susan. In America: A Novel (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999).
In the Library: For Young Readers
Blos, Joan W. Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme (N Y: Atheneum, 1994).
Cushman, Karen. Rodzina (NY: Clarion, 2003).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Photography
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