Celebrating Modjeska in California - Trochimczyk, Maja
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"Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club" is a 440-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 440-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 is a poet, music historian, photographer and non-profit director born in Poland, educated in Canada (Ph.D., McGill University), and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). She published or edited eight books of research studies (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music; The Music of Louis Andriessen; Polish Dance in California; A Romantic Century in Polish Music; Gorecki in Context; F. Chopin Research Guide; and Album 50-lecia Klubu) and eleven books of poetry, including five anthologies: Chopin with Cherries, Meditations on Divine Names; Grateful Conversations; We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology; and Crystal Fire. Her poetry and photography appear in numerous journals to mention only: California Quarterly; Houston Literary Review, Ekphrasis Journal, Epiphany Magazine, Loch Raven Review, Magnapoets, Quill and Parchment, Phantom Seed, Poezja Dzisiaj, Cosmopolitan Review, and poeticdiversity. A former Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, she is the founder of Moonrise Press, President of the California State Poetry Society, Managing Editor of the California Quarterly and Poetry Letter published by CSPS, and President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, promoting Polish culture in California. Hundreds of her articles and book chapters appeared in English, Polish, and in translations. She read papers at over 90 international conferences and received many awards from Polish, Canadian and American institutions.