Karen Majewski
Biographic Data
| ID | 4282222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Majewski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Majewski |
| SIGNATURE | MAJEWSKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019
Detroit's Lost Poletown
Around 1985, perusing my university library's new video collection, I ran across George Corsetti's recently released documentary film Poletown Lives! Intrigued by the title but knowing nothing about Detroit Polonia or Hamtramck, I ended up sobbing uncontrollably right there in public watching the destruction of this doomed working-class neighborhood that I'd never heard of. I could never have imagined that twenty years later I would be the mayor …
Little Altar Boy
John Guzlowski is probably best known to Polish American readers as a poet, one whose work has been particularly informed by the World War II trauma of his parents, slave laborers under the Nazis. His Echoes of Tattered Tongues (2016) is a classic of modern Polish American literature, and a window into the experience of displaced persons.Guzlowski brought the bleakness and brutality of that history to his 2018 crime novel, Suitcase Charlie, set i…
In Memoriam – Thomas S. Gladsky
Tom Gladsky was born August 26, 1939, in the coal-mining community of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He passed away March 30, 2022, in Monroe Township, New Jersey, where he and his wife Rita had retired after long academic careers. A scholar in her own right, Rita passed away just five weeks before Tom, on February 21, 2022.Gladsky earned degrees in history and English education from Bloomsburg State Teachers College—now Bloomsburg University of Penns…
Hamtramck at 100 Years
In 2022, the City of Hamtramck celebrates its centennial. On January 1 of that year, it also inaugurated a Yemeni immigrant as its first mayor who is not of Polish descent, as well as a completely Muslim city council, including a Polish American convert to Islam. Written by the last Polish mayor in that nearly hundred-year succession, this article combines history and personal experience while looking at the Polish dominance of local politics beg…
Abortion and Infanticide in Polish American Detroit and Hamtramck, 1900–1960
Using death certificates, newspaper reports in Polish and English, birth records, and police reports, this study examines the historical experience of Polish immigrant and second-generation women as they faced the problem of unwanted pregnancies in the early to mid-twentieth century before Roe v. Wade. Focusing on the Polish communities of Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan, it attempts to create a fuller understanding of the women who sought aborti…
‘We’re all from Poland’
Traitors and True Poles
During Poland's century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland's reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as they used their work to define and consolidate an essentially transnational ethnic identity that was both tied to Poland and independent of it. By introdu…
The Polish Book Collection, Alumni Memorial Library, St. Mary’s College
Research Article| April 01 2003 The Polish Book Collection, Alumni Memorial Library, St. Mary’s College Karen Majewski Karen Majewski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2003) 60 (1): 45–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148656 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Karen Majewski; The Polish Book Collection, Alumni Memorial Library, St. Mary’s …
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Traitors and True Poles
During Poland's century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland's reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as they used their work to define and consolidate an essentially transnational ethnic identity that was both tied to Poland and independent of it. By introdu…
The Polish Book Collection, Alumni Memorial Library, St. Mary’s College
Research Article| April 01 2003 The Polish Book Collection, Alumni Memorial Library, St. Mary’s College Karen Majewski Karen Majewski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2003) 60 (1): 45–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148656 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Karen Majewski; The Polish Book Collection, Alumni Memorial Library, St. Mary’s …
‘We’re all from Poland’
Abortion and Infanticide in Polish American Detroit and Hamtramck, 1900–1960
Using death certificates, newspaper reports in Polish and English, birth records, and police reports, this study examines the historical experience of Polish immigrant and second-generation women as they faced the problem of unwanted pregnancies in the early to mid-twentieth century before Roe v. Wade. Focusing on the Polish communities of Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan, it attempts to create a fuller understanding of the women who sought aborti…
Hamtramck at 100 Years
In 2022, the City of Hamtramck celebrates its centennial. On January 1 of that year, it also inaugurated a Yemeni immigrant as its first mayor who is not of Polish descent, as well as a completely Muslim city council, including a Polish American convert to Islam. Written by the last Polish mayor in that nearly hundred-year succession, this article combines history and personal experience while looking at the Polish dominance of local politics beg…
In Memoriam – Thomas S. Gladsky
Tom Gladsky was born August 26, 1939, in the coal-mining community of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He passed away March 30, 2022, in Monroe Township, New Jersey, where he and his wife Rita had retired after long academic careers. A scholar in her own right, Rita passed away just five weeks before Tom, on February 21, 2022.Gladsky earned degrees in history and English education from Bloomsburg State Teachers College—now Bloomsburg University of Penns…
Detroit's Lost Poletown
Around 1985, perusing my university library's new video collection, I ran across George Corsetti's recently released documentary film Poletown Lives! Intrigued by the title but knowing nothing about Detroit Polonia or Hamtramck, I ended up sobbing uncontrollably right there in public watching the destruction of this doomed working-class neighborhood that I'd never heard of. I could never have imagined that twenty years later I would be the mayor …
Little Altar Boy
John Guzlowski is probably best known to Polish American readers as a poet, one whose work has been particularly informed by the World War II trauma of his parents, slave laborers under the Nazis. His Echoes of Tattered Tongues (2016) is a classic of modern Polish American literature, and a window into the experience of displaced persons.Guzlowski brought the bleakness and brutality of that history to his 2018 crime novel, Suitcase Charlie, set i…
Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019
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