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Name given by Polish geographer Stefan Jarosz. [2] (pol.) Jezioro Piłsudskiego, a lake on Kosciusko Island named in honor of Józef Piłsudski - Polish politician, First Marshall and Prime Minister. Name given by Polish geographer Stefan Jarosz. [3] Kosciusko Island, named in honor of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish and American military leader. [4]
Even as late as 1960, about 60% of the Polish American students attended Catholic schools. It is notable that many of the Polish American priests in the early 20th century were members of the Resurrectionist Congregation, and diverged somewhat from the mainstream American Catholic Church on theology in addition to their language differences ...
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.
According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
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-American culture in Chicago (86 P) Pages in category "American people of Polish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,337 total.
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
Most Popular 1000 Names of the 1920s from the Social Security Administration This page was last edited on 5 February 2025, at 17:46 (UTC). Text is available under ...