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LOVE, SEX, AND BUREAUCRACY: THE U.S. MILITARY AND MARRIAGE TO 'FOREIGNERS'

S. M. Sinke

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 119-128

AThis article explores policies and practices surrounding the marriage of U.S. military personnel with non-U.S. citizens in the twentieth century, noting the racial and national preferences/bans, how they changed over time, and how the provision of services to new spouses promoted certain family models. Since World War I, when U.S. military authorities were caught off guard by the numbers of enlisted...

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YOUNG, UNWED, MOBILE, AND FEMALE. WOMEN ON THEIR WAY FROM THE HABSBURG MONARCHY TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A. Steidl

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 55-76

Although women participate in every human migration, more actively in some than in others, they have been ignored by migration research for a long time. However, migrating women or women in migration processes, whether as stayers or movers, are no longer invisible. Analysing a sample of passenger list from Bremen to New York and the Census of the United States of America in the year 1910 will give...

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OLD NEIGHBORS IN THE NEW WORLD: POLES, GERMANS, JEWS AND RUTHENIANS ON MANHATTAN LOWER EAST SIDE

D. Praszalowicz

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 77-92

Poles, when they arrived in large numbers to the United States, at the turn of the nineteenth century, settled in American cities next to Germans and Jews. Soon Ruthenians (Rusyns) joined. In the course of time, ethnic neighborhoods of these four immigrant groups overlapped in New York, and also in Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and many other cities. It is asserted in the text that...

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ASSIMILATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: THE MURDER OF ALVIN PALMER AND CHICAGO'S POLONIA IN THE 1950s

D. A. Pacyga

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 129-140

On March 11, 1957 a gang of Chicago teenagers assaulted and killed a sixteen-year-old African American boy, Alvin Palmer. Many of the members of the 'Rebels', a street gang from the Back of the Yards neighborhood were Polish Americans and members of Sacred Heart Parish. The paper looks at both the gang and the neighborhood in an attempt to see the effects of assimilation on Chicago's Polonia. Chicago's...

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ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, THE GERMAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, AND ANTEBELLUM POLITICS

H. Keil

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 7-21

The essay argues that the views of Alexander von Humboldt - the revered representative of Enlightenment and humanitarian thought, and a transatlantic intellectual who closely observed, and commented upon, developments in American society and politics - were used by the growing Republican party in the latter half of the 1850s to win the German-American vote. Humboldt had consistently condemned the...

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CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE ACCOUNTS FROM IMMIGRANT LETTERS: THOMAS SPENCER NIBLOCK - A DIALOGUE OF RESPECTABILITY AND FAILURE

D. Gerber

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 23-41

In pursuit of material security and social respectability, the middle class Englishman Thomas Spencer Niblock engaged in multiple migrations between England, Australia and Canada during the years 1838-1853, before dying in a shipwreck with his wife and two children while on a voyage between Melbourne and Sydney. Niblock repeatedly failed to achieve his goals, which were often subverted by his own...

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MEASURING ANTI-POLISH BIASES AMONG HOLOCAUST TEACHERS

R. Cherry

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 141-149

A questionnaire was sent to members of Jewish and Polish fraternal organizations; members of National Polish American Jewish American Council and one other Polish-Jewish dialogue group; and individuals who research or teach college Holocaust-related courses. The material presented here includes analyses of those survey questions that asked respondents to assess the actions and motivation of the Home...

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AMERICAN GENRE ARTISTS VIEW IMMIGRANT/ETHNIC MINORITIES, 1850-1920

V. Greene

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 93-118

The essay examines the influence of late nineteenth century popular stereotypes of immigrants and minorities found on popular artifacts, posters, and in humor magazines on the work of genre artists. The basic question asked is whether and to what extent such popular caricaturing found its way into their paintings and drawings. The tentative conclusion on the basis of the works of about 40 artists,...

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WANDERING JEWS: PEDDLERS, IMMIGRANTS, AND THE DISCOVERY OF 'NEW WORLDS'

H.R. Diner

Przegląd Polonijny > 2005 > 31 > 4(118) > 43-53

Peddling, long an economic niche for European Jews became in the late eighteenth century a powerful engine which drove their migration around the globe. Young Jewish men, responding to both the decline of the traditional economies of their home communities and the opening up of a number of 'new worlds' took up their familiar occupation in broad range of places. They left eastern and central Europe...

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