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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]
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]
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 1,324 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The final phase of colonial immigration, from 1760 to 1820, became dominated by free settlers and was marked by a huge increase in British immigrants to North America and the United States in particular. In that period, 871,000 Europeans immigrated to the Americas, of which over 70% were British (including Irish in that category).
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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 ...