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The first Polish immigrants came to the Jamestown colony in 1608, twelve years before the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts. [4] These early settlers were brought as skilled artisans by the English soldier–adventurer Captain John Smith, and included a glass blower, a pitch and tar maker, a soap maker and a timberman. [4]
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), Polish Jewish-American writer and illustrator of children's books; Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991), Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. Maja Trochimczyk (born 1957), music historian, poet, editor, translator and publisher, [75] founder of Moonrise Press [76]
The history of Polish immigration to the United States can be divided into three stages, beginning with the first stage in the colonial era down to 1870, small numbers of Poles and Polish subjects came to America as individuals or in small family groups, and they quickly assimilated and did not form separate communities, with the exception of Panna Maria, Texas founded in the 1850s.
1619 Jamestown Polish craftsmen strike; Great Emigration; Assassination of William McKinley; Lattimer massacre; 1912 Lawrence textile strike; Detroit race riot of 1943; Organizations; Blue Army; Polish Museum of America; Polish American Congress; KNAPP; Polish National Alliance; Polish mob; Felician Sisters; Resurrectionist Congregation; Polish ...
Pages in category "American people of Polish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,329 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
European immigration to the Americas was one of the largest migratory movements in human history. Between the years 1492 and 1930, more than 60 million Europeans immigrated to the American continent. Between 1492 and 1820, approximately 2.6 million Europeans immigrated to the Americas, of whom just under 50% were British, 40% were Spanish or ...
The Polish Peasant in Europe and America is a book by Florian Znaniecki and William I. Thomas, considered to be one of the classics of sociology.The book is a study of Polish immigrants to the United States and their families, based on personal documents, and was published in five volumes in the years 1918 to 1920.
The first Polish immigrants came to the Jamestown colony in October, 1608, during the "second supply", twelve years before the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts. [9] These early settlers were brought as skilled artisans by the English soldier–adventurer Captain John Smith , and included a glass blower , a pitch and tar maker, a soap maker and ...