News of Polonia Pasadena, California November 2009 Page15

Marek Edelman from 11 Związek Polek from 1 Our man in Warsaw from 14 (Baltimore) and none of them can identify

Poland Szewach Weiss. “I loved him A Centennial Celebration of the Lacking is the original front cover. The this as a Polish custom. If you have any greatly and will miss him very much. We newspaper will be held in November 2010 second cover, however, is strong and knowledge or thoughts please share them had held many conversations in Yiddish and we will keep you informed about the blank except for my name, Army rank and with us. which he knew very well.” centennial events planned for the next 12 my then address in Berlin, and. tally clear KNIAŹ ROGER, Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, a prominent months leading up to the anniversary as and the binding is in good condition. [email protected] Polish churchman called him „an icon of details are finalized. There are not many Would you know of anyone who might A: At traditional Polish peasant weddings the presence of the Jewish world in Polish newspapers in the country that have been want to buy it for its historic value? Please the oczepiny (becapping ceremony) was history and culture…He was a witness to owned, edited, and published by women have such a person contact me and make held towards the end of the wedding feast. the extermination and I respect him for 100 years without interruption. We an offer in dollars. . The bride would be seated on an upside- greatly.” In deference to the deceased’s can be proud of that achievement and of CEDRIC PHILIPP, [email protected] down bread-dough trough (dzierża). Her atheist views, the bishop did not call for the fact that the Głos Polek has been The A: I can’t think of anyone off-hand, but floral wreath, the symbol of virginity, was prayers but said: “I ask for a reflection Polish Women’s Voice (its name in maybe some historian, history buff or ceremoniously removed amid singing of special songs, and a wife’s cap (czepek) worthy of his departure.” ❒ English) for close to a century! ❒ collector will see your query here and respond. Good luck! was placed on her head, symbolizing the ______transition from maidenhood to wifehood. ********** Traditionally, the bridegroom was merely Q: I am a Canadian preparing my Taxes from 3 Russia Simulates War from 14 an onlooker and did not have anything Master’s dissertation at the Jagiellonian placed on his head. But I have heard of You can often manage the size of your that Russia “is back as a revisionist power University of Kraków on the subject of the “vegetable hat” custom at Buffalo area gain or loss when you decide to sell pursuing a 19th-century agenda with 21st- contemporary Polish burial customs. Pol-Am wedding which apparently was a some, but not all, of a particular stock or century tactics and methods.” Would you know what the situation of local innovation that may have spread to mutual fund. To do this, you must have Moscow and Minsk have insisted that cremations in Poland is like? What other Polish communities. If the hat you kept good records of the date and the price Operation West was to help “ensure the percentage of funerals involve the describe had tiny babies dangling from it, for each share purchase. By selling the strategic stability in the East European cremation of the deceased. Can those who then it obviously was meant to suggest a highest cost shares first, you'll minimize region”. ❒ are cremated receive a Catholic burial. fertility symbol. It could have been your taxable gain or maximize your loss. ______Many thanks in advance. borrowed from some other ethnic You must specify the particular shares ANDREA MARTIN, community. you are selling at the time you sell. [email protected] Don’t forget to include any reinvested Polish News Bytes from 14 A: I would estimate that probably more ********** Q: Do you know of any good Polish food dividends when you calculate your cost Hebrew studies are spreading in than two percent of the dead in Poland are basis for mutual fund shares. currently being cremated, but the number source in the Greater Cleveland area. We Poland. The latest is a course being are moving there shortly. If you’re planning to buy or sell of gradually increasing. Cremated remains conducted in the northern city of Toruń FRAN MILLER, Battle Creek, MI (e-mail mutual fund shares close to year-end, are entitled to a Catholics funeral if the under the auspices of Catholic Franciscan withheld on request) take the tax consequences of the fund's family requests one, on condition that the monks. 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Poznań and Lublin. kremacja/ ********** If you have additional questions about Normal phones are becoming obsolete Far a hands-on view on Polish burial Q: My grandma, who died in 1972, had a the ideas mentioned here and/or the many in Poland as more and more Poles opt for practices contact Warsaw mortician Polish book collection with Mickewicz, other strategies available to you, they may mobile telephones. Over the past four Marek Gojski at: 48 22 870-6895. Krasuski, Fedro, Sienkiewicz and used to be directed to me at 800-CPA-KROL (272 years the number of landline phones tell me how great Polish literature was. I -5765), or you may write to: ********** dropped by 3.3 million from 12.5 million read Quo Vadis in English and saw the News of Polonia Q: I am researching for a friend a local in the record year 2004 to 9.2 million at movie but that’s about all. Would you Your tax and Financial Matters “Baltimore Polish Marriage Tradition”, the end of 2008 with no end in sight. At know where can I get Polish books to read 2245 E. Colorado Blvd. 104/177 following description. After the ceremony present, an estimated 85% of Poles aged in English? I’d like to share them with my Pasadena, CA 91107 at the reception the Bride’s veil is 15-69 own cell phones. A growing removed and a handkerchief is placed on own grandkids E-mail: [email protected] ❒ number are using Internet phone links and her head (reason unknown). The Groom MARJORIE BALDWIN, Harrisburg, PA those provided by cable companies. (no address given) ______has a straw hat placed on his head with The 6,500-year-old remains of a woman dangling plastic babies (fertility symbol?) A. I think you meant Kraszewski, Fredro of around age 30 have been unearthed at I have discussed this custom with Dr. and Mickiewicz. Since you indicated you were on line, chances are you may find Investments from 3 an archeological dig in Pinczów in Felix v.L.Holewiński (Wisconsin, USA), southern Poland’s Świętokrzyskie the following site interesting and helpful: Setting up the Trust Dame Barbara Bromont-Sławińska Mountain region. The ideally preserved http://home.roadrunner.com/ The IRS has published a model trust (Poland) and Thomas Hollowak skeleton lying on its left side in ~polishlit/19.html. You can read the agreement that companies can use for embryonic position reveals the funeral English version of many Polish works their Rabbi Trust arrangements. practices of the religion’s prehistoric right on line or get some of the books Employers should meet with their own inhabitants. Warsaw University’s Prof. through www.polartcenter.com or your legal and tax advisors to confirm that the Przemysław Dulęba, who oversees the Your help is needed public library. model agreement meets their needs and to excavation, maintains that her people choose among many alternative and Get involved in Polonia ********** were farmers from the Danube region who optional provisions offered by the IRS. Q: For the life of me I cannot think how settled in and around what is today Join a to say tap-dancing in Polish. Would you For More Information Pinczów. The fossil remains of a dinosaur know? If you’d like to learn more, please write who had been a predecessor of Polish Organization DIANE BRUNSTING, in care of: Tyrannosaurus Rex were recently [email protected] News of Polonia discovered nearby. A: It is stepowanie from the verb Father Krzysztof Gardyna from Investments An alleged Eucharistic miracle in the stepować. It came from the German verb southern Poland’s Bielsko-Biała diocese 2245 E. Colorado Blvd. – 104/177 town of Sokółka is being studied by a steppen which means both to do tap- is one of the few priests ever to have Pasadena, CA 91107 Church commission. A communion wafer dancing and to quilt something. From the climbed some of the world’s tallest peaks. e-mail: [email protected] which fell to the ground during Mass was steppen meaning to sew using an Twelve years ago, he climbed the more placed in a water vessel to dissolve overlapping stitch the Poles created ______than 26,000-foot Gashebrum II in the according to accepted procedures. Several stepować (also appearing as stebować and Karakorum range in the Indian-Pakistani- days later the priest found something stebnować) and when tap-dancing came Chinese borderlands, and this past resembling a blood clot in its place which into vogue the other meaning of steppen summer reached the top of China’s Mount medical tests showed to be a human heart was adopted. ❒ Polka Deli Koskulak (23,000 feet). Father Krzysztof The Best Polish Deli fragment. If the commission is able to rule out any attempts at deception, the matter nearly gave up mountaineering in 1993, ______in Orange County California when four of his team mates died in an will be referred for further deliberation to Polish Traditional Deli Products the Vatican which is extremely reluctant avalanche.

Sausage, meat cuts, pierogi to recognize supernatural phenomena. Only 18% of young Poles aged 18-24 Stuffed cabbage Cigarette sales are dropping, but Poles are never engage in any type of religious Polish Women’s Alliance practices, meaning that 82% are observant Polish bread and cakes not necessarily kicking the habit at the Out of state members same rate. Growing excise tax has pushed in one way or another. The number of Imported from Poland official cigarette prices to over up to over Church-shirking Poles has increased by only four percent since 1992, belying WE NEED YOU Candies, cookies and chocolate 9 złotys ($3) a pack, so more and more Great Polish beer, smokers are buying smuggled smokes at predictions that Catholicism would soon Helen Simmons wine and spirits open-air markets for 4 – 5 złotys ($1.40 - wither away in a free Poland. Forty-five percent regularly attends Sunday mass, National Director Newspapers and magazines, $1.75). Well-known brands (L&M, Lucky Cosmetics Strike, Marlboro, Pall Mall, etc.) are four percent got to church several times a Tel: (818) 360-7707 week and the remainder practice only 1710 Tustin Ave - Orange, CA smuggled in from Ukraine and Belarus in ingenious hiding places in semi-trailer sporadically. ❒ Fax: (818) 366-5083

Tel/Fax (714) 974-8276 trucks, buses, railway coaches and even ______e-mail: [email protected] Mon to Fri - 10 – 6, Sat 10 - 4 ambulances.