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The ArtsPoprzecka, Maria. Masterpieces of Polish Painting. Wyd. Arkady: Warszawa. 2003. $42.00. tel. 866-210-6451.
BiographyAnsell, Joseph P. Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole. Publ. by Littman (UK)..
Goldberg, Halina. The Age of Chopin. 2003. $24.95pb. Indiana Univ. Pr..
Szczepanski, Andrzej. A Man Who Spanned Two Eras. The Story of Ralph Modjeski. Email afszczep@aol.com.
Contemporary PoloniaCharen, Mona. Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First. Regnery Publ. 2003. $27.95. 308p. The idiots include Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Katie Couric, Meryl Streep, Martin Sheen, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Alan Dershowitz and Ed Asner. Polonian organizations should invite Mona as a speaker. Tel. 202-216-0601 ext. 412. e mail kschremp@eaglepub.com
Dybek, Stuart. I Sailed with Magellan. 2003. Farrar Publ. 320p. $24.00. Stuart writes about Chicago’s Polonia. He teaches at Western Michigan.
Ingraham, Laura. Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics and the UN are Subverting America. Regnery Publ. $27.95. 360p. 2003. Laura reveals her Polonian roots, growing up in Norwich, CT.
She is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. Read how Democrat, liberal pundits demean the Polish working man. Please invite her to your Polonian group as a speaker. Tel. 202-216-0601. ext. 478. Her email address is pjackson@eaglepub.com.
Palazzolo, Laurie. Horn Man: The Polish American Musician in 20th c. Detroit. Wayne State Univ. Pr. 2003. 400p. 235 photos. $45.00. Fav. rev. on p. 17 of the 11/03 Polish American Journal.
Surowiecki, James. Ed. Best Business Crime Writing of the Year. 2003. $12.00. Vintage Publ.
Polish-Jewish RelationsBrooks, Phillip. Extraordinary Jewish Americans. Grolier Publ. 1998. 280p. $19.95. Unfavorably reviewed by F. Nice. “Every Jewish entry—extraordinary, notorious and infamous—is presented in a favorable light…There should have been a balanced view presented on both Jews and Poles.”
Dold, Gaylord. The Last Man in Berlin. Publ. by Sourcebook Landmark. 2003. 345p. $25.00. This is the story of Berlin set in 1930-33. Many Poles and Jews made up the power structure of Berlin at this time.
Kurlansky, Mark. 1968: The Year that Rocked the World. Random House Publ. 2003. 435p. $26.95. “ The Poles cooperated in the murder of all but 275,000 of the 3.3 million Jews living in Poland.” Shall organized Polonia respond to this libel?
Laskey, Heather. Night Voices. McGill-Queen’s Univ. Pr. 2003.260p. $24.95. Read how the Jews are now sorry they were Jew Communists in Post WWII Poland. The UB and the Bezpieka were filled with Jews.
Kurlansky, Mark. 1968. The Year that Rocked the World. Random House Publ. 2003. 435p. $26.95. If you think Gross libeled the Poles in his Neighbors, wait until you read this book. Quote: “The Poles cooperated in the murder of all but 275,000 of the 3,300,000 Jews living in Poland.” Ch. 4 is entitled to Breathe in a Polish Ear. The Poles were rebellious in the 1960s. The Gomulka government was an enigma both to the KGB and the CIA. Gomulka was an alleged anti-semite and yet was married to a Jewess. Moczar was planning Gomulka’s downfall way back in 1959. Moczar was adept at playing the Jewish card in Polish politics. By 1960, only 30,000 Jews remained in Poland. The Gomulka cabal was infiltrated with Jews. Polish communist youth were not always in agreement with their parents. Marcuse invented the ‘Jew Hippie’ of the 1960s. Michnik and the founders of the Gazeta Wyborcza were the most famous of the Polish, Marcusian ‘Jew Hippies’. These Polish dissidents leaked and leaked to the western press during the 1960s. Jan Nowak and Radio Free Europe in turn disseminated these leaks throughout the western world. Radio Free Europe was financed by the CIA. Nowak admired Kuron and Modzelewski right from the start. Michnik was a disciple of Kuron and Modzelewski. Michnik visited Radio Free Europe in 1964. Michnik’s mother was a Krakow born, Polish assimilated Jewess. The ZMS was the Michnik group. The liberal revolutionaries of the 1960s were Julian Beck, Judith Molina, Paul Goodman, Martin Sheen, Joseph Papp, Hair, Havel, Olympia Dukakis and Henryk Szlajfer. These were the Marxists who laid the ground work for the creation of the Solidarity movement. Many of these ex commies came out of all this ‘smellin roses’. Instead of liberating Poland, Nowak and Radio Free Europe gave Poland Michnik and his Gazeta Wyborcza.
Levene, Mark. War, Jews and the New Europe: The Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf. 1914-1919. Punl. By Littman (UK) 1992.
Meirtchak, Benjamin. Jewish Officers in the Polish Armed Forces. Publ. by the Assoc. of Jewish War Veterans. 2001. 319p. Together with their goy compatriots, they were not bystanders
Moran, Thomas. Anja the Liar. Riverhead Publ. 2003. 322p. $25.95. Set in wartime Krakow.
Ziarek, Agnieszka et al. My Five Cambridge Friends. Farrar Publ. 1994. Burgess, MacLean, Philby, Blunt and Cairncross had a KGB controller way back in ht e1930s. These famous spies were recruited and directed by Jew Communists such as Orlov (Deutsch) and an ex seminarian goy by the name of Teodor Maly.
Polish HistoryChristie, M.G. et. al. None So Blind. A Study of the Crisis Years, 1930-1939. Harrison Publ. 1947. 214p. Why did Poland refuse Soviet aid and alliance during the mid 1930s? Hitler wooed Stalin away from western alliance. Stalin felt isolated and threatened by Poland’s policy in 1938-39. Stalin’s purges in the mid 1930s were designed to rid many Soviet Jews from espousing a preemptive war against Hitler in alliance with the Allies. Stalin did not want to isolate himself with a one on one war with the Nazis. American Jews and European Jews steered the UK and the USA into a war against Hitler. Hitler had no intention of fighting against the UK and the US.
Johnston, Robert. Travels Through Parts of the Country of Poland. 1815. Available through inter library loan.
Winter, Nevin. The New Poland. Page Publ. Boston. 1923.
Rossino, Alexander. Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology and Atrocity. Univ. Kansas Pr. 2003. 343p. $34.95.
Skowronek, Jerzy. Studia Polono-Helvetica, III. Basel, Switzerland. Helbing Publ. 1996.
West, Nigel. GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War. 1900-86. Weidenfeld and Nicholson Publ. 1986. Read about Henryk Zygalski, Alexander Szek, BRUNO: the Polish Cipher Bureau. Col. Gwido Langer, Col. Stefan Mayer. The Abwehr penetrated the Polish Cipher Bureau. With the help of Zygalski type sheets and the help of Maksymilian Ciezki, Alan Turing broke the Nazi code on Oct. 28, 1939.
Winter, Nevin. Poland of today and Yesterday. 1913. Page Publ. Boston. 1913. both Nevin books are available thru interlibrary loan.
Polonian HistoryBrewer, Daniel C. The Conquest of New England by the Immigrant. Putnam Publ. 1926. 360p. If you are from Hadley, New Britain, Chelsea, Worcester, New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Bridgeport, Stamford, Ware and Palmer, please read this book.
Harring, Sidney L. Policing a Class Society: the Experience of American Cities. 1865-1915. Rutgers Univ. Pr. 1983. P. 201. Read how the Police defeated Rybakowski’s Army of so called bums in 1894. Actually, the group was part of Coxey’s Army that was marching on Washington DC in a peaceful demonstration.
Macunovich, Diane J. Birth Quake:The Baby Boom and its Aftershocks. Univ. of Chicago Pr. 314p. 2002. $37.50. Fav. rev. in the 8/12 Chron. of Higher Education. Cafeteria Catholics do not have many children.
Majewski, Karen. Traitors and True Poles. Ohio Univ. Pr. 2002. 248p. $24.95. Karen teaches at the Orchard Lake Schools. She is the Exec. Sec. of the Polish American History Association. John Bukowczyk, History PhD Harvard, is the editor of the new Polish and Polish Studies Series to be published by the Ohio Univ. Press. www.ohio.edu/oupress.
Russo, John. Steel town USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown. Univ. Pr. of Kansas. 202. 272p. $34.95. Fav. rev. in the 8/12 Chron of Higher Educ. Polonia was badly hurt by the deindustrialization of the so called rust belt.
Shallcross, Bozena. Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Literary and Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Homeland and Self. Ohio Univ. Pr. 2002. 370p. $22.95. www.amazon.com.
Religious StudiesCarlin, David. The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America. Sophia Inst. Press. 2004. 432p. $24.95. Fav. rev. in the 2/04 Crisis p. 44. The Church is irrelevant and many Catholics are out of touch with political reality.
Goldhagen, Daniel J. A Moral reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled duty of Repair. Knopf Publ. 2002. 362p. $25.00. Fav. rev. in the Wash. Post Bookworld. 11/17/02. Quote: “Pius XII was a Nazi collaborator.’” Goldhagen asserts that the Church is involved in Holocaust Denial! Of course we know, without Goldhagen’s people, there would never have been a Gulag Holocaust.
Limbaugh, David. Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War against Christianity. Regnery Press. 2003. $27.95. 416p. Catholics are afraid of entering the fray in the public square. All ‘politically incorrect’ people have been cowed by American, liberal law. Lawyers are now the new, high priest class in America.
Poliakov, Harold. Jewish Bankers and the Holy See. 1977. Publ. by Littman (UK)
Polonsky, Antony. Et. al. The Neighbors Respond: the Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland. Princeton Univ. Pr. 2004. 489p. $19.95pb. fav. rev. on p. A-14 of the 1/23 Chronicle of Higher Education.
Spretnak, Charlene. Missing Mary: The Queen of Heaven. Palgrave Publ. 2003. $24.95. 280p. Fav. rev. on p 61 of the 1/24 Publ. Weekly.
Tower, Philip. Turmoil and Truth. The Historical Roots of the Modern Crisis in the Catholic Church. Ignatius Pr. 2004. 207p. $14.95. Fav. rev. in the 2/04 Cris p. 44. There is a resurgence of modernism.
All of the aforementioned books are free for your use through the interlibrary loan system. Please learn to use the system. It is your tax money at work.
Learning EnglishStanislawski, J. Podreczny Slownik Angielsko-Polski/Polsko-Angielski. [Handy Engl-Pol/Pol-Engl Dictionary.] 2 vols. $50.00. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna,Warszawa.Tel. 827-76-51.
Kopczynski, A. English at Home. Samouczek jezyka angielskiego dla poczatkujacych plus kaseta. Learning English for Beginners. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa. Tel. 827-76-51 $12.00.
Konieczka, J. Slowa, slowka I przyslowia. Slownik tematyczny angielsko/polski. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. Warszawa. 1998. $8.00. An Engl-Pol. Dictionary of problem words. Tel. 827-76-51. Please ask for a free catalog from the Wiedza Powszechna Publ. Co.
Widawski, Maciej. The Polish-English Dictionary of Slang. Hippocrene Publ. 1998. $12.95pb. 400+p. One cannot eat ‘kapusniak’….After showering, one is not ‘splukany’….One cannot go to a tailor to ‘spasowac’ your garment.
Burke, N. Travel Broadens the Mind: Jezyk angielski dla zaawansowanych + Kaseta. The English Language for the Advanced Learner. 1999. $20.00. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. Tel. Warsaw 827-76-51.
Godziszewski, J. Wzory zdan angielskich. [Examples of the English Sentence]. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. 1999. $11.00. tel. Warsaw 827-76-51. This is an excellent handbook of English grammar.
Kubrakiewicz, Ilona et al. Go For Poland. (Officially adopted English language text in Poland gr 5-8). 4 vols. Addison Wesley Longman Publ. tel. 781-944-3700. E mail awlelt@aw.com. A classroom set would be a wonderful gift to your friends in Poland. The Warsaw rep for this company is Danuta Lapkiewicz, Longman Publ. Oddzial w Warszawie, ul. Kolejowa 19/21. 01-217 Warszawa. Tel 631-22-50 fax 631-22-51. E mail office@longman.com.pl.
I Learn English: Jezyk Angielski dla dzieci starszych. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. 1998. $18.00. This text may be used with the three cassettes published by Wyd. Polskie Nagrania. To order, please call Warsaw 827-76-51.
Dobrzycka, I. Jezyk angielski dla zaawansowanych. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. 1998. $17.00. [English for the advanced student]. Tel Warsaw 827-76-51.
Lawendowski, B. Minirozmowki angielskie. [English Mini Conversations]. 1999. $4.00. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. Warszawa. Tel. Centrala 827-76-51.
Michalska, M. I Learn English. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. 1999. $6.00. Warszawa.
The following listed books are available through Wiedza Powszechna Publ. tel. Warszawa 827-76-51. Michalska’s I Learn English $7.00. Manczak’s Mala gramatyka jezyka angielskiego z cwiczeniami. $4.00. Reszkiewiczowski’s slowniczek angielsko-polski I polsko-angielski. $4.50. Kaczmarski’s testy z jezyka angielskiego 2. $4.00. Jackowska’s Rozmowki Angielskie [English Conversations $4.00
Bartnicka, B. et. al. We Learn Polish. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. Vol. 1 and 2. $19.90. pb. Kosonacka-Taber, Lidia. Angielski bez Tajemnic, czyli uczymy sie na Cudzych Bledach. Wiedza Powszechna. Warsaw. 1999, 170p. $11.25. tel. 773-481-6968.
Learning PolishSihler, Andrew L. Language History: An Introduction. John Benjamins Publ. 2000. $29.95pb. 314p. This book shall help you to study the history of the Polish language. 1-800-562-5666.
Falski, M. Elementarz. Wyd. Szkolne I Pedagogiczne. 1988. 160p. $10.90. Most Polish children learn to read their language from this Polish Elementary book. To order, please call the PTvN Polish Bookstore at 1-800277-0407.
Language Now: Polish. CD-rom. Order through www.transparent.com/mail offer/languagenow532 or call 1-800-332-8851.
Uczymy sie Polskiego [Learning Polish]. 1999. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. 2 vols. $35.00. To order, pleae call Warsaw 827 76 51 ext 190 or 248. Please ask for their latest catalog.
Kopczynski, A. Survival Polish. 1999. $4.00. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. Short conversations for the English speaking tourist.
Bak, P. Gramatyka jezyka polskiego. Zarys popularny. [Polish Language Grammar: Popular Edition]. 1999. $14.00. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. Warszawa. Tel. Centrala 827-76-51.
Uczymy sie polskiego. T. 1, 2. [We Learn Polish. Vol 1 and 2]. 1999. $18.00. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. Warszawa.
Please order the following listed books from the Polonia Bookstore by calling 773-481-6968. First Year Polish by Swan. Intermediate Polish by Swan. Intermediate Tapes: 180 minutes. Supplemental Materials for Swan’s First Year Polish. Bartnicka’s We Learn Polish. Berlitz Polish Phrasebook and Dictionary. Stok’s Polish Travel Pack. Rudzka’s Wsrod Polakow [Among Poles]. Order both parts. Miodunka’s Czesc. Jak sie masz? A book for beginners. Miodunka’s Let’s Learn Polish in two vols.
Jaslan, J. Kieszonkowy Slownik Angielski-Polski/Polsko-Angielski. [Pol-Engl/Engl-Pol Pocket Dictionary.] Wyd Wiedza Powszechna. $7.00. 1999. Tel. Warszawa 827-76-51. For their free catalog, please write to Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna, 00-054 Warszawa, ul. Jasna 26. Skr poczta 162, Poland.
Bak, P. Gramatyka Jezyka Polskiego. [Polish Grammar Book]. 1999. $7.00. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna. Warszawa.
Kopczynska’s Survival Polish. $3.00. Slownik czasownikow w zdaniach Angielsko-Polski. $7.00.
Let’s Learn Polish. A Video Course. Developed by PAN. 1999. Basic and Advanced Course. 10, 90 min. videos! $499.00. To order, please call 718-389-7050
Conversational Polish: A self study audio cassette course. 8 cass. 7 hrs. $166.00. tel. 1-800-243-1234. Published by Audio-Forum, Guilford CT.
Slownik Polszczyzny Potocznej. $16.00. 410s. tel. 805-683-3713.
Polish Language 30: Brief course $21.95. a cassette…..Conversational Polish. 8 cassettes. 7 hr. 327p text. $195.00……Speaking Polish in Poland. 3 cass. And a 140p. text. $49.95. …..Treasures of Polish Heritage. CD and 76p. book. $24.95. Publ. by the Audio Forum, Inc. 1-800-243-1234
Bugajski, M. Pol wieku kultury jezyka w polsce: 1945-1995. [A Half Century of Language Culture in Poland]. PWN. 1999. 198s. Available from Orbis Books (London) tel. 0171 370 2210.
Knab, Sophie Hodorowicz. Polish First Names. Hippocrene Publ. 2000. $11.95. 123p. tel. 212-685-4371.
Markowski, Andrzej. Jak dobrze mowic I pisac po Polsku. [How Good it is to Read and Write in Polish]. Wyd. Reader’s Digest. 2000. 415p. Fav. rev. in the 12/26/00 Gazeta Wyborcza.
Miodunka, W. Czesc, jak sie masz? (for beginners). Wyd. Universitas. 272p. $15.90. tel. 800-277-0407.
All of the aforementioned books are free for your use through the interlibrary loan system. Please learn to use the system. It is your tax money at work.
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