The University at Buffalo has digitized a valuable resource. Album pamiatkowe i przewodnik handlowy : osady polskiej w miescie Buffalo, z dolaczeniem okolicznych miejscowósci ze stanu New York is now available to download as a PDF. Go to the University at Buffalo to download. The Album Pamiatkowe was published in 1906 and lists the Polish businessmen of Buffalo.
Hat tip to Louise T.
Wroclaw: Portret Miasta by Tadeusz Drankowski.
Call number: DK4780.1 K36
Lech Walesa: The Struggle and the Triumph: An Autobiography
“In this speechifying autobiography, Poland’s president delivers a dramatic and self-dramatizing account of the rise of the Solidarity movement, his role in the labor strikes of 1988, his battle with the Polish Communist party and his election to the presidency. Interspersing transcripts, Walesa presents a witty, Kafkaesque replay of government wiretapping and judicial harassment of him through 1986, and vividly re-creates the news-making kidnap and murder of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984. He credits Solidarity’s survival as due in large measure to the moral support of the Roman Catholic Church. In down-to-earth prose, the former electrician writes about his father’s internment in a Nazi concentration camp, his own religious faith, and the joys of family life and of raising eight children. But in denying the existence of “racially based” anti-Semitism in Poland, past or present, he ignores history. Glaringly short on specifics about his plans for Poland’s future, his self-portrait is padded with accounts of a blur of meetings, talks and travel, as well as encounters with Elie Wiesel, George Bush, Elton John, Pope John Paul II and Francois Mitterrand, among others.”
Call number: DK4452 .W34 A3
Frederic Chopin by Victor Seroff.
Call number: ML410 .C54 S47
Come to the library and check out these books!
Come check out our new additions to the library’s catalog.
50th Anniversary, 1942-1992, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America edited by Tadeusz Gromada. Its call number is AS36.P843 F5.
“The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (PIASA), Polski Instytut Naukowy w Ameryce (in Polish) a non profit, 501 © tax exempt, academic, cultural organization founded in 1942 in New York City is dedicated to the maintenance of a center of learning and culture. Its mission is to advance knowledge about Poland and Polish Americans and serve as a liaison between American and Polish academic circles.” (PIASA’s website)
Visit the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America’s website to learn more about the organization.
Dziela wybrane, a seven volume collection of works written by Ignacy Maciejowski. Their call number is PG7158 .M15 S95.
The volumes are entitled:
Szkice z anglii
Nowele cz.1
Nowele cz.2
Nowele cz.3
Slowa a czyny;
U progu sztuki
Matka. Bajecznie Kolorowa
Here are a couple recent additions to the library’s catalog.
The Image and the Figure: Our Lady of Czestochowa in Polish Culture and Popular Religion by Anna Niedzwiedz
The image of Our Lady of Częstochowa is the most famous and the most venerated holy image in Poland. In contemporary Poland the image is a kind of a cultural icon, instantly recognizable and connected with popular symbolic and mythological meanings. Presented in this book is an analysis of beliefs, narratives, myths and rituals. This analysis reveals that for its devotees the image is not merely a material object and a picture – it is perceived, lived and experienced as a real person – figure of Mary – Queen and Mother.
Masterpieces of Polish Painting by Maria Poprzecka
So stop by the Adam Mickiewicz Library and check these books out!
Come to the Polish and English new and used book sale today!
We are open till 11PM tonight.
We are also selling odds and ends and t-shirts, so stop on by!
Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle 