Growing Up Polish

Author : Carol Demarco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781974067701
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Polish written by Carol Demarco and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol was born to Polish-Americans in a small blue-collar town south of Milwaukee. The book spans three generations: her immigrant grandparents at the turn of the century, her parents who grew up immersed in the Polish culture, and their three daughters who enjoyed the "happy days" of the 1940's and 50's. Nostalgic, funny, insightful, the book is lightly seasoned with Polish words, recipes, and wisdom, but you don't have to be Polish to enjoy this well-written memoir.

Author : Frank Potwora
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781466273221
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Grew Up in Polish Heaven written by Frank Potwora and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Grew Up In Polish Heaven is an eyewitness account, through the vivid eye of a little boy's memory, of the courage, ingenuity, and industry of the displaced/often-despised Polish Refugees of Wallington. The book spotlights the struggles, survival strategies, and superhuman perseverance of the little boy's seventy-year old father, slowly dying of a lung disease. Central to the story are the sacrificial disciplines of this old Refugee Pole who sired two sons in his old age…and later, the misdeeds and misfortunes of his two fatherless boys. In a broader context, the book is a freeze-frame in time (1950), capturing the spirit and identity of the Refugee community: their attitudes, habits, ingenuities, vices, and contributions into the American Melting Pot. “Polish Heaven” chronicles the paranormal strength and perseverance forged into the human spirit as it passes through the Fiery Furnace of Affliction. The book is an instructive, inspiring history of Polish war-victims who triumphed over their “Everest of Impossibilities,” reconstructing their shattered lives inside that One Square Mile known as Wallington. I Grew Up In Polish Heaven ignites and incinerates the straw Goliath of Hopelessness in the face of impossible odds. It places the single smooth stone of Visionary Courage into the inerrant sling of Hope, in the fullest confidence that every Goliath has a chink in his armor. This book offers genuine hope and encouragement to persevere with what you have, in facing your desperate circumstances – how to “Never Say Die!” It gives case histories of deeply distraught human beings who survived in and triumphed over their darkest hour. The book showcases the Pioneer/Reconstructionist spirit, “starting from scratch”; doing what you can with what you have, despite your staggering losses. [The old Polish father made honest money, three times, on one piece of wood!] This book promotes the Pursuit of Life, even when most of it has been sucked out of you by the Leech of Evil Circumstance. The Author spotlights the universal Law of Sowing And Reaping: if the soil has yielded nothing but thorns and thistles, plow up your ground again and plant new seed! “Polish Heaven” also promotes the eternal ideal of genuine brotherhood, providing some practical cures for racial bigotry. It zooms in on warm interpersonal relationships and camaraderie, highlighting their restorative and healing effects upon people in crisis: both recipient and giver! The author, one of the two sons born in their father's old age, draws upon his vast experience in sales and human relationships; he is also a Christian minister and Bible Teacher. (You won't want to miss his stunning conversion Experience). Conversely, his younger brother, at the time of his death, was the dreaded Vice-President of the “ @#!*% 's Angels,” New York City. The book also paints rich cameos of his volcanic journey from Polish Heaven into the power structure of the notorious Angels. This Little Brother was given the burial of a Big Man, in the private cemetery grounds of the @#!*% 's Angels. “Little Brot” was feared and respected by some of the deadliest men ever spawned by Satan since the Fall of Adam. I Grew Up In Polish Heaven will impart to all readers a different, broader perspective of their own roots – a deeper appreciation of their ancestors' sufferings on their behalf. It will awaken a keener sense of identity and wholesome ethnic pride. The book should enrich all readers with a reverent, joyful gratitude that they themselves, like the author, can now celebrate Life in a New And Better Day, as the beneficiaries of those who have gone before.…One Humorous Highlight…“As soon as the old Polish priest heard my last name, he began to lose his composure, struggling not to laugh. Unhappily, my name, in Polish is one of the most un-flattering words in the language!”

Author : Anna Hurning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734248821
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polish Your Kitchen written by Anna Hurning and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polish Your Kitchen: My Family Table is a collection of recipes handed down from generation to generation, featuring more than 100 classic Polish dishes from the author's family home and reflecting the traditional flavors and cooking styles of the Polish hearth. This book is perfect for anyone that wants to bring a taste of Poland into their home.

Author : Dagmara Dominczyk
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645993
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lullaby of Polish Girls written by Dagmara Dominczyk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an interview featuring Dagmara Dominczyk and Adriana Trigiani A vibrant, engaging debut novel that follows the friendship of three women from their youthful days in Poland to their complicated, not-quite-successful adult lives Because of her father’s role in the Solidarity movement, Anna and her parents immigrate to the United States in the 1980s as political refugees from Poland. They settle in Brooklyn among immigrants of every stripe, yet Anna never quite feels that she belongs. But then, the summer she turns twelve, she is sent back to Poland to visit her grandmother, and suddenly she experiences the shock of recognition. In her family’s hometown of Kielce, Anna develops intense friendships with two local girls—brash and beautiful Justyna and desperately awkward Kamila—and their bond is renewed every summer when Anna returns. The Lullaby of Polish Girls follows these three best friends from their early teenage years on the lookout for boys in Kielce—a town so rough its citizens are called “the switchblades”—to the loss of innocence that wrecks them, and the stunning murder that reaches across oceans to bring them back together after they’ve grown and long since left home. Dagmara Dominczyk’s assured narrative flashes from the wild summers of the girls’ youth to their years of self-discovery in New York and Europe. Her writing is full of grit and guts, and her descriptions of the emotional experiences of her characters resonate with honesty. The Lullaby of Polish Girls captures the passion and drama of friendship, the immigrant’s yearning to be known, and the exquisite and wistful transformation of young women coming of age. Praise for The Lullaby of Polish Girls “A coming-of-age tale of three young Polish women [that is] brimming with teary epiphanies, betrayal and love, as well as the grit of both New York and Kielce. [It’s] Girls with a Polish accent.”—The New York Times “The Lullaby of Polish Girls will make you swoon. Dagmara Dominczyk has written a glorious debut novel inspired by her own emigration from Poland to Brooklyn with depth, intensity, humor, and grace.”—Adriana Trigiani “An ennui-stricken actress returns to the old country—and to the friends of her youth—in Dagmara Dominczyk’s The Lullaby of Polish Girls, in which solidarity is all about summer evenings under the stars with a vodka bottle and a radio playing ‘Forever Young.’ ”—Vogue “Compelling . . . an original portrait of friendship and identity . . . Dominczyk uses a fresh, confident style.”—People “In this arresting debut novel, Polish American film and TV actress Dominczyk pays homage to her native city of Kielce while capturing the joys, insecurities, and struggles of three girlfriends coming of age. Spanning thirteen years, Dominczyk’s absorbing story is a triptych of tsknota (Polish for a kind of yearning) and a profound desire for acceptance, freedom, and home.”—Booklist (starred review) “The Lullaby of Polish Girls is sexy and sensitive, with a raw, openhearted center. Dominczyk’s love for her complicated characters is apparent from the first page to the last, and by the novel’s end the reader cares for them just as deeply.”—Emma Straub Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.

Author : Anne Pellowski
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
ISBN 13 : 1932350403
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stairstep Farm written by Anne Pellowski and published by Bethlehem Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the life of a youngster of Polish decent growing up on a farm with many lively brothers and sisters and loving parents.

Author : John Z. Guzlowski
Publisher : Aquila Polonica
ISBN 13 : 9781607720218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Tattered Tongues written by John Z. Guzlowski and published by Aquila Polonica. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner 2017 Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD for POETRY. Winner 2017 MONTAIGNE MEDAL for most thought-provoking books. Major tour de force traces arc of one of millions of American immigrant families, survivors of WWII. Raw, eloquent, nuanced, intimate--illuminates the many faces of war, toll taken on innocent civilians, how trauma echoes down through

Author : Victoria Granacki
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439614989
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Polish Downtown written by Victoria Granacki and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Toby Knobel Fluek
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1891011693
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930-1949 written by Toby Knobel Fluek and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again for the first time in decades, this jewel of a memoir is the poignant story of a young Jewish girl growing up in a Polish farm village, from the peaceful early 1930s through the tragic war years, and finding safe harbor at last. “Deeply moving”—Elie Wiesel “A tone poem evocative of a vanished world”—Chaim Potok In her own words and with her own beautiful paintings and drawings, artist Toby Knobel Fluek (1926–2011) lovingly unfurls a unique view of Jewish life. She introduces us to her village, to her family, to the people among whom they lived; she shows us how customs and holidays were observed; and, with both feeling and restraint, she illustrates how this long-enduring way of life was shattered by World War II. She depicts her family’s experiences through Russian occupation and the devastation wreaked by the Nazis—and, finally, her new beginning in America. New to this edition is a foreword by Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD, PhD, Founding Director of the Judaic Studies Program at Drexel University, which he led for twenty years.

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452110557
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From a Polish Country House Kitchen written by Anne Applebaum and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In making her new home in Poland in 1989, Applebaum had to cook with ingredients that were local, fresh, and available. She learned how to make food that was, if not exactly traditional, in the Polish spirit. The national rebirth of Poland in the last two decades has meant the rebirth of its cuisine, and the authors have modernized many of its dishes, without losing any of the centuries-old flavors. Collects ninety Polish recipes, including roasted winter vegetables, stewed beef rolls with kasha, pork loin stuffed with prunes, and fruit pierogi.

Author : Paylie Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692423400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of Poland, Lessons From Growing Up Under Communism written by Paylie Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paylie Roberts spent the first eight years of her life living under communist rule in Poland. From age eight on she grew up in the US and became so Americanized that she refused to acknowledge her native Polish heritage, including her birth name. Only after researching the history of why her family was exiled from Poland by the communist government did she realize the tremendously important and unique lessons that the Polish Solidarity movement offers about overcoming tyranny, oppression, and corruption, and how these lessons are imminently relevant and applicable to America today. Paylie combines her personal story with historical facts and sheds light on the many unnerving similarities between growing up in communist Poland in the early 1980s and life in the US now, in a way that is engaging, insightful and inspiring. She recounts her memories of living under the Soviet Union's rule over Poland, as her family struggled along with most other Poles just to survive. This book also includes memories that are only told by Poles as they were never recorded in "official" history due to media censorship during those years. Paylie wrote this book not only to honor the brave Polish people (including her parents) for defeating tyranny using largely non-violent means, but also with the hope of spreading knowledge that could help prevent her worst fears from manifesting regarding what the future in "free" America may hold.