Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.2.01
Tom Young
This essay examines a print series called Les Polonais et les Polonaises de la Révolution du 29 Novembre, 1830, a collection of just under one-hundred lithographic portraits of individuals involved in the November Uprising of 1830–1831. It was produced and authored by Józef Straszewicz (1801–1838), a revolutionary turned émigré publisher and art dealer in Paris. Serialized between 1832 and 1837, the project was described as a “Historical Gallery of Contemporary Poland.” From its release to the present day, it has supplied publishers with the likenesses of renowned Polish martyrs as well the Wielka Emigracja's most illustrious exiles. Yet despite their widespread use as illustrations, the portraits have rarely been analyzed on their own terms: as remarkable specimens of romantic lithography and diasporic Polish art. In this essay, I argue that the visual format adopted by Straszewicz—a portrait vignette accompanied by a lithographic facsimile of the sitter's signature—enabled the publisher to communicate specifically Polish political concerns according to a visual framework associated with transnational liberal ideas about an individual's place in public life. By focusing more specifically on the series’ inclusion of seven women involved in the Uprising, I argue that the print portrait format cogently expressed gendered ideas about diasporic political participation and the conceptual link between suffering and national belonging in émigré political discourse.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.2.10
Agnieszka Jeżyk
{"title":"Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece [Grecja i jej historia w twórczości Cypriana Norwida]","authors":"Agnieszka Jeżyk","doi":"10.5406/23300841.69.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.69.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.2.15
Magdalena Kay
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.2.04
Maria Zakrzewska
This paper discusses the history of the Polish book collection at the Chicago Public Library (CPL) from the time the Foreign Language Section (FOL) in the main library was established, until the present. The author has used both primary and secondary sources. Many of them are archival materials still unpublished (FOL Annual Report Bulletin from the Office of the Librarian, etc.) and stored in the Special Collections and Preservation Division at the Harold Washington Library Center (HWLC) in Chicago. The names of many dedicated librarians who have worked and are working now at FOL are provided. The article tries to answer the question: How did they help new immigrants to adjust to the American way of life? A considerable part of this paper is devoted to the programming aimed at Chicago's Polish community. These programs took place at CPL from its beginning, but more were scheduled in the 1970s and the 1980s, when American libraries begin to promote multiculturalism and diversity. The establishment of the Polish American Services Committee (PASC) in 1995, which was organized and continues to function to the present time, is also covered.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.2.11
Łukasz Wodzyński
{"title":"Bolesław Prus and the Jews [Bolesław Prus wobec kwestii żydowskiej]","authors":"Łukasz Wodzyński","doi":"10.5406/23300841.69.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.69.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141695809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.2.14
Thomas J. Napierkowski
{"title":"Admit This to No One","authors":"Thomas J. Napierkowski","doi":"10.5406/23300841.69.2.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.69.2.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141712684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.2.02
Neal Pease
Dorothy Day (1897–1980), the co-founder and central figure of the Catholic Worker movement, and current candidate for sainthood, visited Poland, the USSR, and other countries in the Soviet bloc for three weeks in summer 1971. In her youth, she had associated with communist and left-wing causes in the United States, and retained a radical political outlook derived from her understanding of the true interpretation of Christianity. Her intent in visiting Eastern Europe was to satisfy a lifelong fascination with Russian culture and to explore religious conditions behind the Iron Curtain. Although Poland was a secondary destination, she found its capital unexpectedly charming and moving. In Moscow, she irritated her Soviet hosts with open statements of admiration for the banned writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The article is based largely on Day's own writings and materials in her archival papers at Marquette University.
{"title":"“Moscow Mary” Looks behind the Iron Curtain","authors":"Neal Pease","doi":"10.5406/23300841.69.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.69.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Dorothy Day (1897–1980), the co-founder and central figure of the Catholic Worker movement, and current candidate for sainthood, visited Poland, the USSR, and other countries in the Soviet bloc for three weeks in summer 1971. In her youth, she had associated with communist and left-wing causes in the United States, and retained a radical political outlook derived from her understanding of the true interpretation of Christianity. Her intent in visiting Eastern Europe was to satisfy a lifelong fascination with Russian culture and to explore religious conditions behind the Iron Curtain. Although Poland was a secondary destination, she found its capital unexpectedly charming and moving. In Moscow, she irritated her Soviet hosts with open statements of admiration for the banned writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The article is based largely on Day's own writings and materials in her archival papers at Marquette University.","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141712614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.2.16
Zachary Mazur
{"title":"Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939","authors":"Zachary Mazur","doi":"10.5406/23300841.69.2.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.69.2.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141690981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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