Celebrating Modjeska in California - Trochimczyk, Maja
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"Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club" is a 428-page case study of a Polish-American organization, active since 1971. This volume reveals the interests, activities, accomplishments, and challenges of successive waves of Polish immigrants to California, especially the generation of the Displaced Persons (survivors and veterans of World War II, mostly interwar Polish intelligentsia), and of the Solidarity-era immigrants. The book is dedicated to "all Polish émigrés and exiles dispersed throughout the world who remained faithful to the Polish language…mehr

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"Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club" is a 428-page case study of a Polish-American organization, active since 1971. This volume reveals the interests, activities, accomplishments, and challenges of successive waves of Polish immigrants to California, especially the generation of the Displaced Persons (survivors and veterans of World War II, mostly interwar Polish intelligentsia), and of the Solidarity-era immigrants. The book is dedicated to "all Polish émigrés and exiles dispersed throughout the world who remained faithful to the Polish language and culture," especially to all the volunteers of the Modjeska Club, promoting Polish culture in California. Organized into ten chapters, the book starts from a biography of the Club's patron, Polish actress Helena Modjeska (Modrzejewska, 1840-1909); a survey of Polish Americans and their organizations in California; and a biography of the Club's founder, actor-director Leonidas Dudarew-Ossety¿ski (1910-1989). Six chapters are dedicated to distinct "eras" in the Club's history: the Kingdom of Leonidas (1971-1978), the times of Solidarity immigrants (1978-1989), the Third Republic of Poland (1989-1998), the period of stabilization and status quo (1998-2010), the arrival of new people and ideas (2010-2018), and surviving challenges (2018-2023). The tenth chapter is a summary with conclusions and recommendations. The book includes an index and many illustrations from the archives of: the Modjeska Club, Polish Museum of America in Chicago, Valerie Dudarew-Ossety¿ska Hunken - the founder's daughter, American Council of Polish Culture, and other private and public archives. All net revenue is donated to the Modjeska Club. The author, Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D., a Polish American music historian, poet, photographer and non-profit director, served as President of Modjeska Club in 2010-12 and since 2018.
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Maja Trochimczyk, the sixth Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga (2010-2012) and the publisher of Moonrise Press, is a poet, music historian, photographer, and non-profit director born in Poland and living in California. She published seven books on music, six volumes of poetry (Miriam's Iris, Rose Always, Slicing the Bread, The Rainy Bread, Into Light, and Bright Skies), and four anthologies: Chopin with Cherries, Meditations on Divine Names, Grateful Conversations (co-edited with Kathi Stafford) and We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology, co-edited with Marlene Hitt). Her poems appeared in: Altadena Poetry Review, Loch Raven Review, Epiphany Magazine, Lily Review, Ekphrasis Journal, Quill and Parchment, Magnapoets, The Cosmopolitan Review, The Scream Online, The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology, Lummox Journal, Phantom Seed, Spectrum, Poezja Dzisiaj, OccuPoetry, Pisarze.pl, as well as anthologies by Poets on Site, Southern California Haiku Study Group, and others. As a music historian, Trochimczyk presented papers at over 90 national and international conferences in Poland, France, Germany, Hungary, U.K., Canada, and the U.S. She received awards and fellowships from ACLS, SSHRCC, USC, McGill University, MPE Fraternity, Polish American Historical Association, City and County of Los Angeles, and Poland's Ministry of Culture. The Senior Director of Planning and Development at Phoenix Houses of California, she also serves as the President of the California State Poetry Society and the President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club. Moonrisepress.com; CaliforniaStatePoetrySociety.com. Recent interviews: shoutoutla.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk-poet-music-historian/ (June 2022); voyagela.com/interview/inspiring-conversations-with-maja-trochimczyk-of-moonrise-press/ (October 2021).