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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]
Polish Americans (Polish: Polonia amerykańska) are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland. There are an estimated 8.81 million self-identified Polish Americans, representing about 2.67% of the U.S. population , according to the 2021 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S ...
133 million European-diaspora Americans 41% of total US population (2017) [1] [a] (as opposed to 235.4 million Americans identifying as White in combination with other races and 204.3 million self-identifying as white) [2] 61.6% of the total US population (2020) Regions with significant populations; Contiguous United States and Alaska
This article contains lists of the most common surnames in most of the countries of Europe, including Armenia, Kosovo, and five transcontinental countries but excluding five European microstates. Countries are arranged in alphabetical order .
The Polish diaspora is also known in modern Polish as Polonia, the name for Poland in Latin and many Romance languages. There are roughly 20,000,000 people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland, making the Polish diaspora one of the largest in the world [1] and one of the most widely dispersed.
Adam Ulam, Polish-American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union; Adam Vetulani, history of law; Piotr S. Wandycz, Polish-American historian of Central and Eastern Europe; Leon Wasilewski; Ewa Wipszycka, historian and papyrologist; Richard Woytak, World War II era; Julia Zabłocka (1931–1993), historian, classical scholar, archaeologist
A Facebook ad aimed at Polish American voters made by Malinowski had initially appeared on the Polish-Americans for Biden page but now promises that Harris will defend both Poland and Ukraine from ...
The name "Poland" is derived from the most powerful of the tribes — the Polans. Their name, in turn, derives from the word pole — field, and translates as "Men of the fields". [ 3 ] It was also used for the eastern Polans , a perhaps unrelated East Slavic tribe that lived in the region of the Dnieper River in Eastern Europe .