Polish and Polish-American Studies Series

About Polish and Polish-American Studies Series

This series revisits the historical and contemporary experience of one of America’s largest ethnic groups and the history of a European homeland that has played an important role in twentieth century world affairs. The Polish and Polish-American Studies Series publishes innovative monographs and more general works that offer new, critical, revisionist, or comparative perspectives in the field. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in profile, the series recruits manuscripts on Polish immigration and ethnic communities and on their country of origin and its various peoples.

Series Editors
John J. Bukowczyk, General Editor
Professor of History
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
313/577-2799
e-mail: aa2092@wayne.edu

Featured Title

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The Exile Mission

The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956

By Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann

At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups—those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland—faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile their concepts of responsibility toward the homeland.…


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Cover of Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979

Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979On Sale

By Jonathan Huener

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world.…

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The Clash of Moral Nations

Cultural Politics in Pilsudski’s Poland, 1926–1935

By Eva Plach

The May 1926 coup d'état in Poland inaugurated what has become known as the period of sanacja or “cleansing.” The event has been explored in terms of the impact that it had on state structures and political styles.…


Cover of The Exile Mission

The Exile Mission

The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956

By Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann

At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups—those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland—faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile their concepts of responsibility toward the homeland.…

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Framing the Polish HomeOn Sale

Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self

Edited by Bozena Shallcross

As the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing phenomenon that absorbs new tendencies and, at the same time, retains its centrality to Polish literature, whether written in Poland or abroad.…


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The Grasinski Girls

The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made

By Mary Patrice Erdmans

The Grasinski Girls were working-class Americans of Polish descent, born in the 1920s and 1930s, who created lives typical of women in their day. They went to high school, married, and had children.…

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Holy Week

A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

By Jerzy Andrzejewski

At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk.…


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Available July 2008 (est.)

The Law of the Looking Glass

Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939

By Sheila Skaff

Polish cinema has produced some of Europe’s finest directors, such as Krzysztof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda, and Krzysztof Zanussi, but little is known about its origins at the turn of the twentieth century.…

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TestamentsOn Sale

Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile

By Danuta Mostwin

Polish émigrés have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction. But it is Danuta Mostwin's fiction, until now unavailable in English translation, that bridges the divide between Poland and America, exile and emigration.…


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Traitors & True Poles

Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939

By Karen Majewski

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.…

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