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POLISH & POLISH-AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES

his series revisits the historical and contemporary experi- Tences of one of America’s largest ethnic groups and the history of a European homeland that has played an important role in twentieth-century world affairs. The Polish and Pol- ish-American Studies Series publishes innovative monographs and more general works that offer new, critical, revisionist, or comparative perspectives in the fi eld. Interdisciplinary and mul- tidisciplinary in profi le, the series recruits manuscripts on Polish immigration and ethnic communities and on their country of origin and its various peoples.

FORTHCOMING THE EXILE MISSION The Polish Political Diaspora and THE LAW OF THE Polish Americans, 1939–1956 LOOKING GLASS Anna D. Jaroszy ´nska-Kirchmann Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939 WINNER OF THE 2001 KULCZYCKI PRIZE AWARDED BY Sheila Skaff THE POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION WINNER OF THE 2004 OSKAR HALECKI PRIZE “The originality of the book lies in its treatment of A groundbreaking look at the interplay Polish cinema prior to World War II, about which between the established Polish-American very little has been written. Moreover, the author community and the refugee community draws on considerable research in Polish-lan- and a compelling analysis of the vigorous debate guage sources, including various fi lm publications, about ethnic identity and immigrant responsibil- which few scholars have examined.” ity toward the homeland. —Charles O’Brien 384 pages, illus. 256 pages, illus. 978-0-8214-1526-9 hc $35.00 978-0-8214-1784-3 hc $34.95 FORTHCOMING TESTAMENTS ROME’S MOST FAITHFUL Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile DAUGHTER Danuta Mostwin The Catholic Church and Independent Testaments presents two novellas until Poland, 1914–1939 now unavailable in English trans lation— Neal Pease The Last Will of Blaise Twardowski and Jocasta—powerful vignettes of life in Based on research carried out in four countries, immigrant America. including recently opened documents in the Vatican Secret Archives, this book offers the fi rst “Her fi ction captures the psychological scholarly history of Poland’s close but complex changes experienced by Polish immigrants, political relationship with the Catholic Church traces circumstances that shaped their lives, from 1914 to the outbreak of the Second World and offers philosophical refl ections on their War. existence.”—Slavic and East European Journal 312 pages, illus. 136 pages 978-0-8214-1855-0 hc $49.95 978-0-8214-1607-5 hc $34.95 SALE $5 978-0-8214-1856-7 pb $26.95 978-0-8214-1608-2 pb $14.95 OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

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HOLY WEEK THE CLASH OF A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising MORAL NATIONS Jerzy Andrzejewski Cultural Politics in Piłsudski’s Poland, 1926–1935 Foreword by Jan Gross Introduction and commentary Eva Plach by Oscar E. Swan “The Clash of Moral Nations is sure to become required reading for anyone interested in 20th-century “Urgently recommended to all readers with an inter- East European history.” est in world history.” —Brian Porter —Library Journal, starred review 152 pages, illus. In this study of the political culture of interwar Poland, 978-0-8214-1715-7 hc $39.95 Eva Plach shifts the focus from strictly political con- 978-0-8214-1716-4 pb $19.95 texts and examines instead the sanacja’s open-ended and malleable language of purifi cation, rebirth, and moral regeneration. 272 pages TRAITORS AND TRUE POLES 978-0-8214-1695-2 hc $42.95 Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939 Karen Majewski FRAMING THE POLISH HOME A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE Postwar Cultural Constructions WINNER OF THE 2000 KULCZYCKI PRIZE AWARDED BY of Hearth, Nation, and Self THE POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION . WINNER OF THE 2003 OSKAR HALECKI PRIZE Edited by Bozena Shallcross “This is a pioneering work. Majewski found and made “Not only does it discuss specifi c issues and writers from sense of a treasure trove of popular literature written in the Polish context, but it also points toward a signifi cant Polish for and about Polish immigrants to the US in the body of theoretical approaches to home and space late 19th and early 20th century.”—Choice issues through the rigorous and creative use of relevant 248 pages, illus. theories on the part of many contributors. . . . Framing 978-0-8214-1469-9 hc $42.95 the Polish Home is defi nitely something to write home 978-0-8214-1470-5 pb $24.95 about.”—Justyna Beinek, Sarmatian Review 376 pages, illus. THE GRASINSKI GIRLS 978-0-8214-1436-1 hc $44.95 SALE $10 978-0-8214-1437-8 pb $22.95 SALE $5 The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made Mary Patrice Erdmans

WINNER OF THE 2005 OSKAR HALECKI PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION, ASSOCIATION FOR AUSCHWITZ, POLAND, HUMANIST SOCIOLOGY BOOK AWARDS AND THE POLITICS OF Basing her account on interviews with her mother and aunts, Erdmans examines the lives of working-class girls COMMEMORATION, of Polish descent, born in the 1920s and 1930s, with 1945–1979 rigorous scholarship and familial insight. 352 pages, illus. Jonathan Huener 978-0-8214-1581-8 hc $49.95 978-0-8214-1582-5 pb $24.95 WINNER OF THE 2004 AAASS ORBIS BOOK PRIZE “The author traces the infl uence of Polish national identity, communist politics, Catholic faith, and inter- national interest on the Visit the online sale at: development of the memorial site. . . . Essential.”—Choice 352 pages, illus. www.ohioswallow.com 978-0-8214-1506-1 hc $44.95 SALE $12 978-0-8214-1507-8 pb $24.95 SALE $6