www.polamjournal.com 1 PRIEST PUT ON FORCED SABBATICAL FOR DEFENDINGPOLISH AMERICAN AGAINST JOURNAL ABUSE • MARCH 2019 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK AT PERIODICAL PAID POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY OFFICES JOURNALDEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE POLISH MUSEUM OF AMERICA HONORS FIRST ESTABLISHED 1911 MARCH 2019 • VOL. 108, NO. 3 • $2.25 www.polamjournal.com CURATOR — PAGE 7 GRONKOWSKI, GOSTOWSKI LEAD PATRIOTS IN SUPERBOWL LIII • BATORY’S VISION CITED • JOYFUL NOISE PAHA’S VALUE TO POLONIA AND TO ITS MEMBERS • PSFCU OPENS IN PENNSYLVANIA • THE POLISH LIBERATORS HOW THE U.S. HELPED POLAND IN 1919 • FRIDAY FISH FRY ALTERNATIVES • ECO-CONSCIOUS COUTURE V4 Summit NEWSMARK Pence, Pompeo Take Message to Warsaw PHOTO: JAKUB SZYMCZUK / OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT (KPRP) SZYMCZUK JAKUB PHOTO: Cancelled Amid Agriculture Minister Slams Protest Polish-Israeli WARSAW — Farmers from across Poland protested Tensions outside the presidential palace, Feb. 6, demanding restric- WARSAW (Radio Po- tions on food imports in a move slammed by Agriculture land) — Poland’s prime min- Minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, who said the protest ister pulled his country out of was “a political project.” He accused the farmers of “com- plete ignorance” of the role of national and EU authorities a summit in Jerusalem after in agricultural policy. a senior Israeli politician re- The farmers demanded limits on imports, complaining portedly claimed that Poles of high production costs and low prices for their products, “suckled anti-Semitism with according to Polish press agency PAP. their mother’s milk.” “Imports are killing Polish agriculture,” said Michał The move by Poland’s Ma- Kołodziejczak, one of the leaders of the AGROunia group, teusz Morawiecki came after which organized the protest. The demonstration had been Israel’s interim foreign min- billed by farmers as the “Siege of Warsaw.” ister, Israel Katz, reportedly “This is far-reaching megalomania, which results, accused “many Poles” of col- among other things, from ignorance of agricultural man- laborating with the German agement procedures, complete ignorance of the division Nazis during the Holocaust. of competences between the European Union, the EU au- Poland’s PAP news agen- thorities and Poland,” said Kołodziejczak. cy reported that the summit of the Visegrad Group, a re- gional cooperation platform FM Attends anti-ISIS Coalition Conference Poland’s President Andrzej Duda with First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda, and U.S. Vice President Michael Pence and his wife Karen visiting the former German Nazi concentration which brings together Po- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Polish Foreign Minister camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. land, Hungary, the Czech Re- Jacek Czaputowicz attended a global conference of na- public and Slovakia, planned tions fighting the Islamic State militant group. The high- Vice President urges Iran and world powers, one that President in Jerusalem Feb. 18-19 had level meeting took stock of the achievements of the Global Europe to Quit Iran deal, Donald Trump’s administration has already been called off. Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and to decide abandoned. Stop Breaking Sanctions Amid an escalating spat about its future course of action, according to the Polish He urged U.S. allies to back Washington’s between Poland and Israel, foreign ministry. sanctions on Iran, re-imposed after Trump Morawiecki earlier slammed “Poland intends to remain actively involved in the Co- WARSAW — Vice President Mike Pence exited the 2015 accord last year. Long-stand- and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took the Katz for “reprehensible, un- alition, both in its military and stabilization dimensions,” ing U.S. allies in Europe favor staying in the acceptable and simply racist said the foreign ministry before the meeting. White House’s aggressive anti-Iran message deal and have sought ways to keep open trade to a U.S.-sponsored meeting in Poland on words.” In Washington, Czaputowicz emphasized Poland’s and financial dealings with Iran. Morawiecki told report- broader efforts to stabilize the Middle East. peace and security in the Middle East. Disagreement over the issue is what partly Pence used his address to the conference ers: “This is an example of “Stability in the Middle East is key to global security,” led to Germany, France and other major U.S. racist anti-Polonism.” said Czaputowicz. in Warsaw to demand that European coun- tries withdraw from the nuclear deal between See “Pence ...” page 4 Morawiecki said that Poles, alongside Jews and Zakopane History at UM Roma, had suffered the most ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Copernicus Program in Lenten Customs Survive during World War II. He Polish Studies (CPPS) at the University of Michigan is pre- added that Poles had saved senting an exhibition and related lectures on Zakopane, a huge number of Jews after Poland through May 3, 2019. Nazi Germany instigated the “100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918” is Holocaust. an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra The Polish prime minister Museum in Zakopane. It tells the unique story of the short- earlier announced he would lived Republic of Zakopane, which was established in the not take part in a meeting of concluding weeks of the First World War. the Visegrad Group in Jeru- The exhibit at UM’s International Institute Gallery salem. He had delegated Po- opened Feb. 4, with a lecture by former BBC World Ser- land’s Foreign Minister Jacek vice producer Maciej Krupa, a journalist and mountain Czaputowicz to attend the guide who lives and works in Zakopane. gathering. CPPS has curated the exhibit and organized public lec- Tensions between Poland tures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam and Israel flared after com- Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part ments reportedly made by of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program com- Israeli Prime Minister Benja- memorating the centenary of Poland regaining Indepen- min Netanyahu during a con- dence. ference on the Middle East in Warsaw the week prior. Reaching back to the pre-Christian era when the forces of nature were worshipped as Auschwitz Exhibition in New York gods, the egg is the essence of the Easter celebration. As a symbol of life’s initial stages, it Netanyahu’s reported NEW YORK — An exhibition about the Nazi German was offered to the sun-god, whose return gave new life to nature. comments were seen as sug- concentration camp of Auschwitz is scheduled to go on gesting Polish complicity in show at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York later By Fr. Basil Janasik, O.F.M. fied with bread, dried fruits and smoked the Holocaust. this year. fish. Later, fast was observed on Mondays, But Netanyahu’s office “Auschwitz. Not so long ago. Not so far away,” had a Polish American Lenten customs were Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays of the has said that the Israeli prime successful run at Madrid’s Arte Canal Exhibition Cen- at first transplanted without much change, entire Lenten season and special mortifica- minister “spoke of Poles and tre, where it was extended twice and attracted more than though in time modifications set in to pro- tions were observed during the first and last not the Polish people or the 600,000 visitors.The travelling exhibition is a joint project duce variations in usage. weeks. Bread only was eaten on the Satur- country of Poland. This was by the Auschwitz Memorial Museum in Poland, experts In the first centuries after Poland accepted days in Lent. misquoted and misrepresent- from other countries, and Spanish company Musealia. Christianity in the year 966, the Lenten fast The Poles abstained from wine on Fridays ed in press reports and was The exhibition is due to open at New York’s Museum of was observed so strictly that nothing cooked but allowed themselves beer once a week. subsequently corrected by Jewish Heritage on May 8 and run until January 3, 2020. or warm was eaten from the middle of Lent the journalist who issued the until Easter Sunday. The people were satis- See “Lenten Customs,” page 11 initial misstatement.” 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • MARCH 2019 ALMANAC JUST BETWEEN US POLISH Follow us on Facebook, AMERICAN and on the web, too, at: www.polamjournal.com Preparing for Lent and Easter JOURNAL by Mark Kohan Wanted: Easter Mass and easier-to-read typeface for the pa- Q Dedicated to the Promotion March Marzec Blessing Schedules per’s body copy. Easter?! How can that be? For over a century, Times (and and Continuance of Readers are asked to let us know Gdy w marcu niebo The thought of searching for its refined sister, Times New Ro- Polish American Culture od południa ryknie, when their parish will hold Easter Easter decorations while still shak- man), have been the standard type- ESTABLISHED 1911 rok wszego dobra Masses and basket blessings. Please z tego wyniknie. ing off winter’s last flakes does faces in the newspaper business. 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