1st Edition

Poles, Polonia, and the Quest for Liberty

Edited By John S. Micgiel Copyright 2025
192 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Poles, Polonia, and the Quest for Liberty provides a scholarly analysis of how Poles and Polish-Americans have cherished liberty and democracy in Poland and struggled to achieve those ideals across the centuries. Experts in the field tackle a series of topics that illuminate major themes in the history of a nation and a state that once again is playing an increasingly important role on the... Read more

1.  Before Modern Polish Democracy: Benedict Hesse of Cracow and the Conciliar Tradition

at the University of Cracow

Paul W. Knoll

2.  Liberty, Sovereignty, and Independence in the Constitution of May 3, 1791

Richard Butterwick

3.  Not A Stone Upon A Stone: The Demolition of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Neal Pease

4.  Jews and the Struggle for Polish Freedom, 1794–1989

Joshua D. Zimmerman 

5. Regionalizing the Polish Carpathians: The First Highland Folk Festival in Poland

Patrice M. Dabrowski

6.  A most unusual meetings in the history of American–Polish relations. The conversation between Robert Lansing and Adam Tarnowski, 1 May, 1917. 

Boguslaw Winid

7. Poles in Heart and Spirit: The Fourth Partition’s Support of its Homeland, 1880–1930.

James S. Pula  

8. A Taste of Poland in Interwar Manhattan:  The Life and Death of the Polish Institute of Art and Culture. 

Tomasz Pudłocki

9.  Ethnic Place-Making: Language, Space, and Power.

John J. Bukowczyk

10. Polonia Zawsze Wierna: The Chicago Polonia and the Struggle for Polish Freedom. 

Dominic A. Pacyga

11.  How do we go forward? Reflections on the Controversies over Polish-Jewish Relations during the Second World War.

Antony Polonsky

Biography

John S. Micgiel has served as Director of the Institute on East Central Europe, Associate Director of the Harriman Institute, Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Europe, and Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs—all at Columbia University, USA. He was the spiritus movens of the campaign to raise funds for the Chair in Polish Studies at Columbia. He now teaches at the University of Warsaw, Poland.