Traitors and True Poles. Karen Majewski

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Traitors and True Poles

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series

Series Editor: John J. Bukowczyk

Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bożena Shallcross

Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Karen Majewski

SERIES ADVISORY BOARD

Stanislaus A. Blejwas (1941–2001), Central Connecticut State University

Robert E. Blobaum, West Virginia University

Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin-Superior

Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan

Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University

Thomas S. Gladsky, Saint Mary’s College of Ave Maria University (ret.)

Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado at Boulder

John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)

Ewa Morawska, University of Pennsylvania

Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University

Brian Porter, University of Michigan

James S. Pula, Utica College of Syracuse University

Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, Saint Mary’s College of Ave Maria University

Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg

Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University

Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University

Traitors and True Poles

Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939

Karen Majewski

OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

ATHENS

Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

Printed in the United States of America

Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Majewski, Karen.

Traitors and true Poles : narrating a Polish-American identity, 1880–1939 / by Karen Majewski.

p. cm. — (Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8214-1469-0 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8214-1470-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. American literature—Polish American authors—History and criticism. 2. Polish Americans—Intellectual life. 3. Polish Americans in literature. 4. Immigrants in literature. I. Title. II. Series.

PS153.P65 M35 2003

810.9'89185—dc21

2002030711

Cover art: From Jak można osięgnąć bogactwo i wpływ w Ameryce (How to acquire money and influence in America) [Toledo: Paryski], 1911.

ISBN 978-0-8214-4111-4 (e-book)

Publication of books in the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series has been made possible in part by the generous support of the following organizations:

Polish American Historical Association, Orchard Lake, Michigan

Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut

St. Mary’s College of Ave Maria University, Orchard Lake, Michigan

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Inc., New York, New York

Additional support for this book has been provided by the Kulczycki Prize awarded by the Polish American Historical Association

To Helena Staś

Contents

List of Illustrations

Series Editor’s Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations