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Tatra Highlander Folk Culture in Poland and America
2013 Vol. 5 No. 1 — Spring / Books

Tatra Highlander Folk Culture in Poland and America

The longtime director of PIASA, Thaddeus Gromada, is a proud góral, as this book about Poland’s highlanders, reviewed by Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, clearly shows. And take a look at his jump over the ciupaga. This is no armchair góral.

Maps and Shadows
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 — Fall / Books

Maps and Shadows

Krysia Jopek’s story of a gentle family uprooted by people who rearrange borders without hearing the gunshots or seeing the victims.

When an American Dream Turns into an American Tragedy… Jan Lewan strives for redemption
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Interviews

When an American Dream Turns into an American Tragedy… Jan Lewan strives for redemption

The rise and fall of a polka king turned pauper.

Spy versus Spy: a Kuklinski Saga
2009 — Winter / Features

Spy versus Spy: a Kuklinski Saga

It could be said that conflict between opposites ultimately assumes a new place in the universe. One can arrive at many examples of opposing forces taking on transformations, even often fleeting ones – evil versus good, black versus white, women versus men, yin versus yang, communism versus capitalism, etc. Who would think that my surname, Kuklinski, could be poised in such a contest of antipodal proportions?

Great Reading from Ohio University Press
2009 — Summer / Books

Great Reading from Ohio University Press

From Ohio University Press:
• Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile by Danuta Mostwin
• The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956 by Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann
• Traitors and True Poles by Karen Majewski