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Polish American Studies:
Polish American Studies, the Association's interdisciplinary, refereed scholarly journal, is published twice each year. It is a member of the History Cooperative and JSTOR electronic databases and is abstracted in Historical Abstracts, America: History and Life, and The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index. 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 by examining its relationship to other ethnic experiences. Contributions from any discipline in the humanities and social sciences are welcome. Recent acceptance rates for unsolicited manuscripts were: 28.6% in 2007, 47.2% in 2006 and 36.4% in 2005. Inquiries and submissions may be sent to the editor, James S. Pula, at jpula@pnc.edu.

Table of contents of past publications:


Polish American Journal - Spring 05Spring 2008, Volume LXV,
ARTICLES
Ethnic Historical Associations at the Crossroads: An Introduction,
by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann and Suzanne M. Sinke ............. 7

Dutch American History in Several Settings: the AADAS
and Other Visions, by Suzanne M. Sinke ................................................ 11

The American Italian Historical Association: A View From
the Bridge, by Jerome Krase .................................................................. 23

The Study of American Jewish History: in the Academy,
in the Community, by Hasia R. Diner ....................................................... 41

The Polish American Historical Association: Looking Back,
Looking Forward, by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann ................................ 57

Polish American Historical Association Membership
Survey, 2007, by Mary Patrice Erdmans ................................................... 77



REVIEWS
Lightening and Ashes: The Poetry of John Guzlowski,
by Thomas J. Napierkowski .................................................................... 85

POLISH AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA PROJECT .............................................. 95



Polish American Journal - Spring 05Autumn 2007, Volume LXIV, no.2
ARTICLES
Introduction to Polish-American Poetry, by John Z. Guzlowski ......... 5

POLISH-AMERICAN POETS
Phil Boiarski ........................................................................... 7

Linda Nemec Foster .............................................................................. 19

John Z. Guzlowski ................................................................................. 31

Leonard Kress ...................................................................................... 53

Mark Pawlak ........................................................................................ 67

Cecilia Woloch ...................................................................................... 81

ANALYTICAL ESSAY
Magical Polonism: Souls and Spirits of the Ancestors,
by Janusz Zalewski ................................................................................ 95


REVIEWS
Magical Polonism: Souls and Spirits of the Ancestors,
by Janusz Zalewski ................................................................................ 95

REVIEWS
The Exile Mission. The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans,
1939-1956, Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann
(Pien Versteegh) .................................................................................. 109

POLISH AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA PROJECT .............................................. 111



Polish American Journal - Spring 05Spring 2007, Volume LXIV, no.1
ARTICLES
Images of Neighbors and Poles in Early 20th Century Polish
American School Books, by Adam Walaszek ................................... 5

The Information Policy of the Polish Government-in-Exile Toward
the American Public During World War II, by Iwona Draąg Korga .................... 27

Forgotten Ancestors: Nineteenth Century Antecedents of Modern
Polonia, by James S. Pula ........................................................................ 47

A Profile of Polish Americans: Data From the 2000 U.S. Census,
by Jason C. Booza .................................................................................. 63

COMMENTARIES
Does the Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko Provide Lessons for Today?
by Wojciech Flera ................................................................................... 75

Is Polish-Jewish Reconciliation in North America Inevitable?
An Incautious Consideration, by M. B. B. Biskupski ....................................... 79

REVIEWS
Making Music in the Polish Tatras. Tourists, Ethnographers, and
Mountain Musicians, Timothy J. Cooley (Ann Hetzel Gunkel) ........................... 89

Haller’s Polish Army in France, Paul S. Valasek (James S. Pula) ..................... 90

For More Than Bread: Community and Identity in American Polonia,
1880-1940, William J. Galush (Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann) ....................... 91

Poles in Minnesota, John Radzilowski (William J. Galush) .............................. 93

POLISH AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA PROJECT ............................................... 95



Polish American Journal - Spring 052006 Autumn, Volume LXIII, no.2
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
In Praise of Work (to Be Done), by Mary Patrice Erdmans ............... 5

ARTICLES
The Unremembered Movement: Abstinence Among
Polish Americans, by William Galush ........................................................ 13

Wojciechowo: Polish Immigrants in St. Paul, Minnesota,
1875 to 1925, by John Radziłowski ......................................................... 23

Teofil Starzyński’s Activities to Recruit Polish Soldiers in Canada
During the Second World War, by Szymon Szytniewski ............................... 59
.
Haiman and Halecki in Light of the Polish Institute of Arts &
Sciences of America Archives, by Thaddeus V. Gromada ............................. 79

REVIEWS
The Grasinski Girls. The Choices They Had and the Choices They
Made, by Mary Patrice Erdmans (Anne Hetzel Gunkel) ................................ 93

Illuminating the Particular: Photographs of Milwaukee’s South Side,
by Christel T. Maass; Images of America: The Polish Community
of Worcester, by Barbara Proko, John Kraska, Jr., and Janice
Baniukiewicz Stickles (Anthony J. Kuzniewski, SJ) ..................................... 95



Polish American Journal - Spring 052006 Spring, Volume LXIII no.1

ARTICLES
The Impact of Mazowsze and Ślaąsk on Polish Folk Dancing
in California, by Maja Trochimczyk ............................................. 5

Polish American Reaction to Civil Rights in Milwaukee,
1963-1965, by Stephen M. Leahy ............................................................ 35

A Pastoral Plan for Polonia in the New Millennium,
by Most Rev. Thomas J. Paprocki ............................................................ 57

Miracle: American Polonia, Karol Wojtyła and the Election of
Pope John Paul II, by John Radziłowski ................................................... 79

REVIEWS
Polish-American Folklore, by Deborah Anders Silverman
(Ann Hetzel Gunkel) ............................................................................. 91

Hamtramck Haunts, by Charlotte L. Cavanary (John Radziłowski) ............... 92

W imieniu sześciu milionów. Kongres Polonii Amerykańskiej w latach
1944-1968, by Joanna Wojdon (Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann) .................... 93





Polish American Journal - Spring 05Autumn 2005, Volume LXII, no.2
ARTICLES
The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furniture Strike
of 1911, by Mary Patrice Erdmans ............................................... 5

Does Anyone Know My Name? A History of Polish American
Literature, by Thomas J. Napierkowski ....................................................... 23

Tomasz Siemiradzki: An Intellectual in Ethnic Politics,
by Adam Walaszek ............................................................................... 47

REVIEWS
Kosciuszko, We Are Here!: American Pilots of the Kosciuszko
Squadron in Defense of Poland, 1919-1921, by Janusz Cisek
(M. B. Biskupski) ................................................................................. 77

W kraągu chicagowskiej Polonii: szkice o czasach minionych i
ludziach, których przewazænie juzæ nie ma, by Wojciech
Białasiewicz (Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann) ........................................... 82

My Grandfather’s Book: Generations of an American Family,
by Gary Gildner (Harriet Napierkowski) ................................................... 84

Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915-36, by Cecelia Bucki
(Donald Pienkos) ................................................................................. 86

Arthur Szyk. Artist, Jew, Pole, by Joseph P. Ansell (James S. Pula) .............. 88

For Your Freedom and Ours. Casimir Pulaski 1745-1779, by
Antoni Lenkiewicz and Ted Kwiatkowski (James S. Pula) ............................. 89



Polish American Journal - Spring 05Spring 2005, Volume LXII, no.1
ARTICLES
Equality of Right: Polish American Bishops in the American
Hierarchy, by Daniel Buczek .................................................... 5

Of Polka, Pierogi and Ethnic Identity: Toward a Polish American
Cultural Studies, by Ann Hetzel Gunkel ..................................... 29

Immigration Incarnate: Elderly Polish Immigrants and Ethnics
Demonstrate the History of an Immigration and Its Effects
on Social Class, by Celia Berdes and Adam A. Zych .................................... 43

Glu/ck Auf: The Polish Labor Movement in the United States and
Germany, 1890-1914, by Pien Versteegh .................................................. 53

American Attitudes on Two Attempts to Establish Democracy in
Poland, 1947 and 1989, by Anna Mazurkewicz ........................................... 67

Report From America: The Polish Clergy on Polonia,
edited by William J. Galush ................................................................... 97

REVIEWS

Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii, ed. by Kazimierz
Dopierała (Mark Kulikowski) ............................................................... 109

Fort Pulaski National Monument Administrative History, by
J. Faith Meader, and Count Casimir Pulaski: From Poland
to America, a Hero's Fight for Liberty, by AnnMarie Francis
Kajencki (Thomas Duszak) .................................................................. 110

Polacy i Polonia a świece: katalog pracy dyplomowych w
Archiwum Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego 1918-2000,
by Ireneusz Korzeniowski (Mark Kulikowski) .......................................... 112



Polish American Journal - Spring 05Autumn 2004, Volume LXI, no.2
INTRODUCTION
Polka Studies in the Scholarly Landscape,
by Ann Hetzel Gunkel ............................................................ 5

ARTICLES
The Clarinet Polka: Life, Literature and Music
by Thomas J. Napierkowski .................................................................. 9
Fathers, Daughters and the Polka: Accordian Crimes
and Misdemeanors in Hoopi Shoopi Donna,

by Harriett Napierkowski .................................................................... 25
Immigrant Voices: Polka Lyrics as Ethnic Literature,

by Ann Hetzel Gunkel ......................................................................... 35
Charlie Won’t Dance: Polka as Therapy,

by Eugenia Pawlik Zeitlin .................................................................... 55
Pushing Politics: Polka Music and Polonia,

by David J. Jackson ........................................................................... 61

Sundays in Pulaski Park, by Suzanne Strempek Shea .............................. 87

REVIEWS
Horn Man: A Review Essay, by Mark Kohan ........................................... 91



Polish American Journal - Spring 05Spring 2004, Volume LXI, no.1
Number 1
Why Does History Matter?, by His Excellency Przemyslaw Grudzinski,
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland
The Kosciuszko Reds, 1909-1919: Kings of the Milwaukee Sandlots,
by Neal Pease
Educating Polish Immigrants Chicago Style: 1980-2002,
by Geraldine Balut Coleman
“A Branch Cut Off From Its Trunk”—The Affects of Immigration Restriction on
American Polonia, by James S. Pula
A Bibliography on Polish Americans, 1996-2000, by Mark Kulikowski
Memories of a Recruiting Officer, by Fryderyk T. Janda

 

Autumn, 2003, Volume LX, no.2
Number 2
The Sacred in the City: Polonian Street Processions as
Countercultural Practice, by Ann Hetzel Gunkel
Ethnic Appeals: The 1960 and 1968 Presidential Elections in
Buffalo’s Polish American Community, by Craig R. Bucki
Overseas Migration from Partitioned Poland: Poznania and Eastern
Galicia as Case Studies, by Dorota Praszalowicz


Spring, 2003, Volume LX, no.1
Number 1
The Future of Polonia's Past: An Introduction,
by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann and Joel Wurl

The Connecticut Polish American Archives,
Central Connecticut State University, by Ewa Wolynska

The Hoover Institution Collections on Poles in the United States, by Maciej Siekierski

The Polish Museum of America, by Jan Lorys

Preserving American Polonia: Perspectives from the Immigration
History Research Center, by Joel Wurl

From the Polish National Catholic Church: A Tale of Two Archives in One City, by Joseph W. Wieczerzak
The Polish Book Collection, Alumni Memorial Library, St. Mary's College, by Karen Majewski

The Archives, Libraries and Museums of Polonia at Orchard Lake, by Rev. Roman Nir

The Archives of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America, by Stanisaw Flis
A Brief History of the Mission and Collections of the Pisudski Institute of America for Research in the Modern History of Poland, by Pawel Pietrzyk

Sources for the History of American Polonia in the Collection
of the Archiwum Akt Nowych in Warsaw, by Edward Koodziej

The Culture of Polish Emigration: The Archives of the Polish Emigration in Torun, by Mirosaw Adam Supruniuk
Polish Emigrant Periodicals in the Jan Jabonski Library of the Society of Christ in Poznan by Fr. Jarosaw Staszewski, SChr

The Archival Collections at the Center for the Documentation of
Polish Emigration at "Dom Polonia" in Putusk, by Danuta Szopa

Spring, 2002, Volume LIX, no.1
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Recalling Stanislaus A. Blejwas and Rededicating Ourselves to the PAHA Mission, by Donald E. Pienkos

American Polonia and the School Strike in Wrzesnia, By Stanislaus A. Blejwas

BLEJWAS MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

Stanislaus A. Blejwas, 1941-2001, by James S. Pula

The Conscience of a Positivist, by John J. Kulczycki

Stanislaus A. Blejwas on American Polonia, by William J. Galush

The Intersection of History and Literature in the Scholarship of Stanislaus Blejwas, by Thomas J. Napierkowski

"Accept No Excuses; Face Harsh Facts": Stanislaus Blejwas and the Scholarly Reconstruction of the Relationship of Poles and Jews, by M. B. Biskupski

Katedra Wiedzy: The Founding of the Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish merican History at Central Connecticut State University, by Katherine A. Hermes

Spring, 2001, Volume LVIII, no.1

Negotiating Class and Ethnicity: The Polish-Language Press In Chicago, by Jon Bekken

Together and Apart: Lithuanian and Polish Immigrant Adult Literacy Programs in Chicago, 1890-1930, by Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr.

The Polish Post-World War II Diaspora: An Agent for a New Millenium, by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann

Polish Ancestry and Multiethnic Identity: A Case Study of Students In Wisconsin and Illinois, by Jarosaw Rokicki

Spring 2000, Volume LVII, no.1
Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away by Mary Patrice Erdmans
Alliance of Hearts: Leopold Lorentz and the Ideals of Polish Heritage, by Kathleen Urbanic

"In No Sense ... An Inquisition": Alexander Zaleski and the Bishops' Committee on Doctrine, 1966-1970, by Samuel J. Thomas

An Unacknowledged Consensus: Polish American Views About the
Oder-Niesse Line During the Truman Administration, by Debra Allen

Autumn 1999, Volume LVI, no.2
Number 2
City Societies and Commercial Clubs: Embourgoisment Among Second Generation Polish Americans, by William J. Galush
The Salvation of the Poles: Working Class Ethnicity and Americanizaton
Efforts During the Interwar Period in Toledo, Ohio, by Timothy G. Borden

The Federation of Polish Jews in America in Polish-Jewish Relations During the Interwar Years (1924-1939), by Andrzej Kapiszewski

Spring 1999, Volume LVI, no.1
Number 1
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Listen Not Only to Ourselves, by William J. Galush

Uneasy Observers: The OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch and Perceptions of Polish Nationalism in the United States During World War II, by Robert Szymczak

In Memoriam: Eugene Kusielewicz

Eugene F. Kusielewicz as a Leader of Polonia, by Stanislaus A. Blejwas

Eugene F. Kusielewicz as a Scholar and Defender of Poland, by John S. Micgiel

Wilson, Paderewski, and the Polish Question, 1914-1921: Eugene Kusielewicz's Historical Works, by M.B. Biskupski

A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Eugene Kusielewicz, by John A. Drobnicki


Autumn 1998, Volume LV, no.2
Number 2
Cold War Ethnic Politics: The Polish National Catholic Church, The Polish American Congress, and People's Poland: 1944-1952, by Stanislaus A. Blejwas

"What Mean Ye By These Stones?" Cleveland's Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish and the Construction of a Polish American Rhetoric, by Charles R. Kaczynski

Pennsylvania Polskoszcz: Polish Physical and Cultural Marks in Tioga County, by Christopher Dziedzic
The Image and Self-Image of Polish Americans, by John J. Bukowczyk

Spring 1998, Volume LV,
Number 1
Equality of Right: Polish American Bishops in the American Hierarchy? by Daniel S. Buczek

The Republic of Poland and the Origins of the Polish American Congress
by Stanislaus A. Blejwas

Whither Immigration History? by William Galush

Immigration Since World War II: The Need for a New Paradigm, by Roger Daniels

Do We Still Need Immigration History? by Donna R. Gabaccia

Toward a Holistic View of American Immigrant Life, by Victor Greene

Whither Immigration History? A Comment, by John J. Bukowczyk