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POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • JANUARY 2014 www.polamjournal.com 1 DECEMBER 2013 • VOL. 102, NO. 12 $2.00 DO SIEGO ROKU! PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY JOURNALESTABLISHED 1911 www.polamjournal.com DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE HAPPY NEW YEAR! THE ANNIVERSARIES OF 2014 • FOR DISNEY’S JIMMY KIMMEL, A LESSON UNLEARNED • “SAVE OUR STEEPLE” BISHOP PAPROCKI CORRECTS THE MEDIA • EAST GERMANY OR WEST POLAND? • TIMELINES IN GENEALOGY COMFORT FOODS LIKE BABCIA USED TO MAKE • A MEAL FIT FOR A KING • SYMBOLS, GESTURES & SUPERSTITIONS Polish Female NEWSMARK “Wałęsa” Presented at Capitol PHOTO: RICHARD POREMSKI Spies Among WARSAW OFFERS INTERCESSION. Poland is offering Immortalized to mediate between the sides of the standoff in Ukraine. Marcin Wojciechowski, a spokesman for Poland’s For- LONDON — Prince eign Ministry, said that the use of force does “not serve Charles was joined by the a peaceful solution of the confl ict” but makes Ukraine Polish ambassador to the UK lose credibility. He said Poland has offered to mediate, if at the unveiling of a monu- Ukraine asked for it. ment to female agents, in- Poland’s former President Aleksander Kwasniewski re- cluding two Poles, who aided cently negotiated on behalf of the EU on an association resistance movements in oc- agreement, which was shelved by Ukraine’s President Vik- cupied Europe. tor Yanukovych under pressure from Russia. Kwasniewski The marble and granite also served as mediator in Ukraine’s 2004 presidential memorial has been erected election dispute. in the village of Tempsford, Bedfordshire, where most of BOMB SCARE PROVES FALSE. Police evacuated 5,000 the 75 female agents set off people from offi ces of fi ve ministries in Warsaw on Dec. 6, on their missions from the after receiving email bomb threats. No bombs were found now defunct RAF airbase. following the evacuations,. The monument includes Police spokesman Krzysztof Hajdas said the threats a mosaic of a dove against a were sent to the infrastructure, defense, economy, health, full moon — the agents were and culture ministries. invariably dropped at night Police experts are trying to identify the authors of the — and eighty villagers, in- emails, who could face up to eight years in prison. cluding children, helped in- sert the 600 pieces. KOSCIUSZKO MONUMENT RESTORED. Milwaukee’s Prince Charles added the newly-restored monument of the Polish-born, American PRESCREENING INTERVIEW. Shown above is Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa (l.), interpreter fi nal piece, where he was Marcin Zmudzki and former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd during the more than 45 minutes Revolutionary War hero, General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, joined by Polish ambassador interview and conversations that preceded the screening of the new Wałęsa biopic. Wałęsa was rededicated, November 11. Fittingly, it was Veterans to the UK, Witold Sobkow, had just received a long standing ovation and thunderous applause after 24 years since his Day in the U.S. and Independence Day in Poland. among other dignitaries. The statue of the general upon his horse is located in last visit to the Capitol and Congress. Projected on the movie screen behind and above them is a photo of the two men together in Poland in 1983. Story on page 4. Among those inscribed Kosciuszko Park at West Lincoln Avenue and 9th Place. See “Spies,” page 4 Restore Kosciuszko Monument Committee (RKMC) of Polanki, Inc. Milwaukee County, and the City of Milwau- A TALK WITH ... kee rededicated the monument with a special program. The bronze statue came to be in the early 1900s through Mieczyslaw Biskupski, President of the the private donations of many of Milwaukee’s Polish citi- Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America zens. Italian sculptor Gaetano Trentanove was commis- sioned to create the piece, which was cast in Florence, Italy Dr. M.B. (Bolek) Biskupski holds the of monitoring Polish scholarship and have and shipped to Milwaukee. In June 1905 the monument Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish & Pol- more critical attention in Poland devoted to was dedicated. ish American Studies at Central Connecti- scholarship produced in North America. This To fund the necessary conservation work, RKMC raised cut State University, and is but one example; we over $300,000 through contributions from hundreds of in- is the current President of have also increased greatly dividuals and organizations. Milwaukee County and the the Polish Institute of Arts our cooperation with the City of Milwaukee also contributed a combined $110,000 and Sciences of America Ministry of Culture, the to upgrade the site surrounding the monument. (PIASA), headquartered in University of Warsaw, the For more on the restoration, visit rkmmilwaukee.org. New York. Author of more IPN, and the Ministry of than ten books and recipi- Foreign Affairs. The Poles POLISH TEAM IN TOP 10 DISCOVERIES. A Polish ent of the Offi cer’s Cross are now in a position to be team’s work at a royal tomb in Peru has been counted of the Order of Merit of substantially helpful and among the “Top 10 Discoveries of 2013” by the Archaeo- the Republic of Poland, we wish to work with them logical Institute of America. he holds a doctorate from for our mutual benefi t. The The fi nd is remarkable as it represents the fi rst instance Yale. He has taught at Yale, “changing of the guard” that a royal burial complex that had not previously been St. John Fisher College in aspect is also important. In looted was explored by archaeologists. Copernicus ’s Rochester, and been a visit- passing, it should be noted The tomb contains the remains of four royal women of ing scholar in Warsaw and that Dr. Gromada was born the Wari Empire, which existed prior to the Incas, from “Little Budapest. He spoke about in the United States. Exec- about 500 AD to 1100 AD. PIASA with John Grondel- utive Director Levan and I Commentary” ski: work in close harmony and The project was led by Dr Milosz Giersz from the Uni- share responsibilities. She versity of Warsaw, aided by archaeologists from the Catho- Turns 500 Your election as Presi- has done a splendid job in lic University of Peru. by Ray Cavanaugh dent represents something Dr. M.B. (Bolek) Biskupski managing the fi nancial and 2014 will mark the 500th of a passing of the torch: daily affairs of the Insti- DISHWASHER MANUFACTURERS CLEANING UP. anniversary of Toruń na- after long-serving Polish scholars like Os- tute. She controls the day-to-day running of The production of large appliances is booming in Poland, tive Mikołaj Kopernik a.k.a. kar Halecki and Feliks Gross, you are the the Institute—among other things—and I am with record levels of eighty percent of those appliances Nicolaus Copernicus coming fi rst Polish-American PIASA President and, free to concentrate on fewer but larger matters now being exported. An estimated 20,000 Poles are em- forth with his Commentario- with Dr. Thaddeus Gromada’s retirement and like the Annual Conference. Having all these ployed in the home appliance sector and “Poland is becom- lus (or “Little Commentary”). Dr. Bozena Levan’s accession, there’s been responsibilities concentrated in one person ing the European leader in the production of large home Consisting of some 40 pages, a change of the guard. How do you evaluate proved quite overwhelming. appliances,” said Wojciech Konecki, director of Poland’s this work presented the revo- this moment in PIASA’s history? Association of Manufacturers of Home Appliances. lutionary notion of a helio- This is a critical moment. We must rede- PIASA was founded by émigré scholars in Demand for Polish appliances like dishwashers, wash- centric universe, in which fi ne our relationship with Poland and we have the dark days of World War II, to continue the ing machines and refrigerators has risen dramatically in the earth orbits the sun — as decided to make closer cooperation our goal. work of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Eastern Europe. Russia is now the fourth largest importer opposed to a geocentric uni- Recently we have agreed with PAU to assist and was later the voice of free Polish schol- of Polish appliances. Konecki said the Association is work- verse, in which the sun (and us in the publication of The Polish Review arship during Communism. Poland is free to- ing diligently on increasing markets in France, Germany, everything else) orbits the and add their representatives to the editorial day—what is PIASA’s mission now? Britain, and Italy. See “Copernicus ...,” page 4 board. These gives us a much better chance See “A Talk with ...,” page 3 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • JANUARY 2014 ALMANAC VIEWPOINT S DEFAMATION WATCH Follow us on For Disney’s Jimmy Kimmel, Facebook or visit us The Anniversaries of 2014 on the internet at: A Lesson Unlearned polamjournal.com “Those who cannot remember the past are still believes it has hegemon’s rights in East- condemned to repeat it.” ern Europe, but at least Warsaw (and Prague, In the opening monologue of the Dec. 4, 2013 January Q Styczeń Those famous words, from Spanish phi- Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, and Sofia) can Jimmy Kimmel Live show, Kimmel told Polish jokes, losopher George Santayana’s book “The Life largely determine their own fates freely. first as examples of their abundance in the 1970s, Dużo szczęścia, zdrowia of Reason,” are especially apropos for Poles History is a strange and dangerous thing. and then following a video recording of failed hand- i powodzenia, and Polish Americans this year, as 2014 marks As Fr. Sławomir Zabraniak points out in an es- glider take off by a Pole.

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