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For More than Bread: Community and Identity in American Polonia.(Book review)
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Sarmatian Review
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April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Grondelski, John M.
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For More than Bread: Community and Identity in American Polonia By William J. Galush. Boulder, CO: Eastern European Monographs distributed by Columbia University Press, 2006. 312 + xi pages. Index. ISBN 0-88033-587-4. Hardbound. $40.00.
Polish Americans refer to the Great Immigration of Poles to the United States between 1880 and 1920 as emigracja za chlebem, or economic emigration. They thus distinguish these economic migrants from post-World War II political refugees, or emigracja polityczna. Fleeing a lack of economic opportunity in a partitioned Poland, the economic migrants provided the backbone for America's urban industrialization.
One of American Polonia's ...