Poles
The
Polish community in Connecticut is lucky to include a professional
historian with an interest in the history of his people. Stanislaus
A. Blejwas' "Researching Ethnic History in Connecticut: The
Polish Question," in Connecticut History 22(January,
1981):31-41, is an excellent introduction to a study of the subject,
a good survey of the literature. "The history Of Connecticut's
Polish community," he writes, "can be divided into three
periods, each coinciding with the broader chronology of Polish-American
history." The eras are 1) Polish political immigration, 1776-1870;
2) the peasant economic immigration, 1870-1914, with the resulting
"Golden Age" of the community, 1914-1939; and 3) World
War II and the post-War period. Blejwas also collaborated on
one
of the Multiethnic Culture curriculum guides with Linda Slominski.
This work, The Poles: In Their Homeland, In America, In Connecticut,
edited by Frank Stone and Sally Innis Gould, was published by
the World Education Project at Storrs (1978).
Other
works:
Aszody,
Ilona, et al. The Polish-Americans of Bridgeport. See note
under Tamanio in the Section on Italians, above.
Blejwas,
Stanislaus. A Polish Community in Transition: Origins of Holy
Cross Parish, New Britain, Connecticut. Chicago: Polish-American
Historical Association, 1978. Established in 1927, Holy Cross
was New Britain's second Polish Roman Catholic Church. It was
set up to challenge the Reverend Lucyan Bójnowski, the "powerful,
autocratic personality” who dominated the New Britain Polish community
for a generation. "The establishment of Holy Cross Parish,
in a very forceful way, would reveal the increasing acculturation
and Americanization of the immigrant." (p. 32) This work
was reprinted from Polish American Studies 34(1977)1 and
35(1978) 1-2.
Buczek,
Daniel S. "Ethnic to American: Holy Name of Jesus Parish,
Stamford, Connecticut." Polish American Studies 37(Autumn,
1980).
--Immigrant
Pastor: The Life of the Right Rev. Msgr. Lucyan Bójnowski
of New Britain, Connecticut. Waterbury: Hemingway Corporation,
1974. This work, commissioned by the Association of Polish
ethnic history
in Connecticut, is called by Blejwas a major addition to Polish
ethnic history in Connecticut." (p. 37 of his Connecticut
History piece, noted above)
Jezerski,
Bonislas A. "Father Lucian Bójnowski, 1868-1960.” Polish
American Studies 16(July-December, 1959)3, 4. Bójnowski was
the leader of the anti-Pilsudski faction in the United States
during the years after World War I. Ten pages of small type;
no
notations.
Kierklow,
Mieczyslow and Wójcik, Jan. Polonia in Connecticut.
Hartford: Committee of the Millenium of Poland’s Christianity,
1966. Copiously illustrated views Of Polish life and society
in Connecticut. Mostly
in Polish, but many sections provided with English translations.
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