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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Dr. MAJA TROCHIMCZYK is a Polish-born California poet, music historian, and photographer. She published seven books on music and five collections of poetry (Rose Always, Miriam's Iris, Slicing the Bread, Into Light, & The Rainy Bread). She edited four poetry anthologies, Chopin with Cherries, Meditations on Divine Names, Grateful Conversations and We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology. She also wrote hundreds of book chapters, peer-reviewed articles on music history and poems published in English, Polish and many translations. The founder of Moonrise Press and a member of poetry groups Westside Women Writers and Village Poets, she serves as the President of the California State Poetry Society, and the President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club. MARLENE HITT is a poet, writer and retired educator with local history as an avocation. She served for many years as Archivist, Museum Director and Historian at the Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga. She is a native Californian and a graduate of Occidental College. As a member of the Chupa Rosa Writers of Sunland for nearly 30 years, she has worked with this small group of poets from whom has sprung readings at the local library, the Poet Laureate Program of Sunland-Tujunga, and the Village Poets. Ms. Hitt served a Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga in 1999-2001. She has published a book on local history, Sunland-Tujunga From Village to City (Arcadia, 2000, 2005) based on columns written for Glendale News Press and other local papers since 1998. Her poems appeared in Psychopoetica (UK), Chupa Rosa Diaries (2001-2003), Glendale College's Eclipse anthologies, Chopin With Cherries (2010), Meditations on Divine Names (2012), Sometimes in the Open, a collection of verse by California Poets Laureate, and The Coiled Serpent (2016). She published chapbooks Sad with Cinnamon, Mint Leaves, and Bent Grass (all in 2001), as well as Riddle in the Rain with Dorothy Skiles, a stack of poetry booklets for friends and family, and most recently a critically acclaimed poetry volume, Clocks and Water Drops (Moonrise Press, 2015).