The Tatra Eagle

Author : J. Victor Tomaszek
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780995229
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tatra Eagle written by J. Victor Tomaszek and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Polish highlander is adopted by Polish knights and rides to Vienna, Austria, seat of the Holy Roman Empire, to participate in one of the most fateful events in European history - to break the Ottoman Turkish siege in 1683.

Author : Tadeusz Gromada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984918706
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tatra Highlander Folk Culture in Poland and America written by Tadeusz Gromada and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Tomaszek
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986934589
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tatra Eagle written by J. Tomaszek and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As war in 1680s Europe rages below, BOLESLAW RADOK, affectionately known as BOLEK, shepherds and hunts in Poland's High Tatra Mountains. His father like all able-bodied men is off at war and had neither trained his son in self defense nor left him a sword. BOLEK is attacked by a wolf and limps home for bandaging, then barely survives a farm raid that kills his grandfather. Four Polish knights vanquish the brigands then deliver BOLEKs fallen father's sword, a dying comrade's last wish. Bolek struggles with two options: stay on the farm he cannot defend well or follow his father's path to a life at war. Why are the knights reluctant to train him? The Tatra Eagle is an historical novel climaxing in the 1683 Battle of Vienna, seat of the Holy Roman Empire. A novel of Poland, the reader will learn of Polish history, culture, and tradition. The story contains fables, legends, folk tales, and songs. Our hero will engage gypsies, werewolves, ruthless brigands, a defrocked priest, and protectors of the common people. Ut Alii Vivant.

Author : Joanna Wojdon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040031056
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polish American History after 1939 written by Joanna Wojdon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second in a three-part, multi-authored study of Polish American history which aims to present the history of Polish Americans in the United States from the beginning of Polish presence on the continent to the current times, shown against a broad historical background of developments in Poland, the United States and other locations of the Polish Diaspora. According to the 2010 US Census, there are 9.5 million persons who identify themselves as Polish Americans in the United States, making them the eighth largest ethnic group in the country today. Polish Americans, or Polonia for short, has always been one of the largest immigrant and ethnic groups and the largest Slavic group in America. Despite that, common knowledge about its social and political life, culture and economy is still inadequate – in Academia and among the Polish Americans themselves. The book discusses the major themes in Polish American history, such as organizational life and the structure of the community facing subsequent waves of immigration from Poland, its leadership and political involvement in Polish and American affairs, as well as living and working conditions, and the everyday life of families and communities, their culture, ethnic identity and relations with the broadly understood American society, starting from the outbreak of World War 2 in Poland in September, 1939, and ending with the highlights of the 21st-century developments. It depicts Polish Americans’ transition from a ‘minority’ through ‘ethnic’ group to Americans who take pride in their symbolic ethnicity, maintained intentionally and manifested occasionally. This volume will be of great value to students and scholars alike interested in Polish and American History and Social and Cultural History.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alpine Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Inna Naroditskaya
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253041783
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in the American Diasporic Wedding written by Inna Naroditskaya and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With real-life stories, this collection “focuses on the role of music in the often-delicate negotiations surrounding weddings in immigrant communities” (Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology). Music in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins. Discussing weddings as a site of negotiations between generations, traditions, and religions, the essays gathered here argue that music is the mediating force between the young and the old, ritual and entertainment, and immigrant lore and assimilation. The contributors examine such colorful integrations as klezmer-tinged Mandarin tunes at a Jewish and Taiwanese American wedding, a wedding services industry in Chicago’s South Asian community featuring a diversity of wedding music options, and Puerto Rican cultural activists dancing down the aisles of New York’s St. Cecilia’s church to the thunder of drums and maracas and rapping their marriage vows. These essays show us what wedding music and performance tell us about complex multiethnic diasporic identities, and remind us that how we listen to and celebrate otherness defines who we are.

Author : Victor R. Greene
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387941
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Singing Ambivalence written by Victor R. Greene and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Singing Ambivalence undertakes a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups - Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans - responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group's songs reveal an abiding concern over leaving their loved ones and homeland and an anxiety about adjusting to the new society. But accompanying these feelings was an excitement about the possibilities of becoming wealthy and about looking forward to a democratic and free society. known and unknown origins that comment on the problems immigrants faced and reveals the wide range of responses they made to the radical changes in their new lives in America. His selection of lyrics provides useful capsules of expression that clarify the ways in which immigrants defined themselves and staked out their claims for acceptance in American society. But whatever their common and specific themes, they reveal an ambivalence over their coming to America and a pessimism about achieving their goals. the United States, while at the same time conveying from an aesthetic viewpoint how immigrants expressed their hopes and difficulties through a unique medium - song. This is an important volume that will be welcomed by scholars of music and U.S. immigration history.

Author : Alan E. Sparks
Publisher : Rainy Day Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0578705729
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Carpathians written by Alan E. Sparks and published by Rainy Day Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories. The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a hiking and wildlife research expedition along the Carpathian and Sudety Mountains, from Romania to Germany, some 800 miles as the crow flies. Still on the trail of wolves, we now explore the enchanting mountain landscapes of Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic, where encounters with wolves, bears, and lynx; lumberjacks, shepherds, and outlaws; poets, tyrants, and saints; nomads, nobles, and knights; sprites, spirits, and witches—and such ancient peoples as Neanderthals, Celts, and Quadi; and such imposing historical figures as Marcus Aurelius of the Roman Empire, Svatopluk I of Great Moravia, Stephen I of the Kingdom of Hungary, Bolesław the Brave of the Kingdom of Poland, and Jan Sobieski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—provide broad insight into the natural, historical, and mythological forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the nations, cultures, and psyches along the way. 72 beautiful color photographs also emblaze this memorable trek.

Author : James S. Pula
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786462221
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polish American Encyclopedia written by James S. Pula and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least nine million Americans trace their roots to Poland, and Polish Americans have contributed greatly to American history and society. During the largest period of immigration to the United States, between 1870 and 1920, more Poles came to the United States than any other national group except Italians. Additional large-scale Polish migration occurred in the wake of World War II and during the period of Solidarity's rise to prominence. This encyclopedia features three types of entries: thematic essays, topical entries, and biographical profiles. The essays synthesize existing work to provide interpretations of, and insight into, important aspects of the Polish American experience. The topical entries discuss in detail specific places, events or organizations such as the Polish National Alliance, Polish American Saturday Schools, and the Latimer Massacre, among others. The biographical entries identify Polish Americans who have made significant contributions at the regional or national level either to the history and culture of the United States, or to the development of American Polonia.

Author : Maciej Krupa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tatra Mountains written by Maciej Krupa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: