John M Grondelski

Biographic Data

ID702258
NAMEJohn M Grondelski
GIVEN NAMESJohn M
FAMILY NAMEGrondelski
SIGNATUREGRONDELSKI J M
AFFILIATIONSFalls Church, Virginia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The Cross and the Flag

    John M Grondelski, John GrondelskiARTICLEOccasional Papers on Religion in…2026

    A review of Lebui, John Tanyi Nquah. The Cross and the Flag: Papal Diplomacy and John Paul II’s Struggle Against the Tyranny of the Possible. South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2024. Pp. xxvi + 322. PB, $30. ISBN 978-1-58731-143-7

  • American Patroness

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2025

  • When Victimization of Poland Was Never in Doubt

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEThe Polish Review2025

    The history of American Polonia mentions the Poles of Jamestown, pays tribute to Pulaski and Kościuszko, but tends to focus on the mass immigrations of the Industrial Revolution and post-World War II era. One of the lesser discussed periods is the early American Republic, that is, between the winning of independence and Kościuszko's departure to lead another war until the mass arrivals of immigrants, first at Panna Maria but especially in the 187…

  • The Torpedo Season

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2024

    We might be prone to forget that anybody with military experience of World War II must be at least in their mid-nineties, and that our few remaining connections with the “Greatest Generation” are those who were children during the Second World War. Many who played important roles relevant to American Polonia—the late Michael Novak and the late Rev. Leonard Chrobot in the urban ethnic movement of the 1970s and 1980s—fall into the latter category. …

  • Cultivating Justice in the Garden State

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2024

    Describing his feelings about being part of the 1995 Air Force One presidential party that welcomed Pope John Paul II when he visited Newark, New Jersey, state senator Raymond Lesniak writes: “To think this young man from the streets of Elizabeth who grew up with Polish lineage was with the president to greet the first Polish pope on his visit to the United States. It was an experience I could not have imagined just a few years beforehand” (p. 61…

  • Faith, Rights, and Choice

    Open AccessJohn M Grondelski, John GrondelskiARTICLEJournal of Church and State2024

    Journal Article Faith, Rights, and Choice: The Politics of Religious Schools in Canada. By James Farney and Clark Banack Get access Faith, Rights, and Choice: The Politics of Religious Schools in Canada. By James Farney and Clark Banack. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 239 pp. $34.95 paper. John Grondelski John Grondelski Falls Church Virginia, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…

  • Polish Americans Today

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2023

    Dominik Stecula, assistant professor of political science at Colorado State University Fort Collins, wants to provide an updated, data-driven overview of American Polonia that tells us more than the mere demographic. This survey was based on 1,781 online respondents in 2020–21. The survey is a follow-up of one also sponsored and published in 2009 by the Piast Institute, authored by the late Thaddeus Radziłowski and Stecula.Stecula's survey covers…

  • From Cracow to Polish Town

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2023

    When it comes to studies of Polonia, the lion's share of attention has gone to Chicago. Less, though still respectable attention, focuses on Polonia metropolises like Detroit. Second-tier Polish cities like South Bend, Toledo, or New York Mills seem to get consideration when some historian has a local connection. But enclaves—little clusters of Polonia that today, more often than not, are just memories—have been largely forgotten. The Polish Gene…

  • Wheeling’s Polonia

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2021

    Book Review| October 01 2021 Wheeling’s Polonia: Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town William Hal Gorby, Wheeling’s Polonia: Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town, (Morgantown: West Virginia State University Press, 2020). xiv + 331 pp. ISBN 978-1-949199-40-6 (paperback), 978-1-949199-39-0 (hardcover), 978-1-949199-41-3 (electronic). John M. Grondelski John M. Grondelski Falls Church, Virginia Searc…

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2021

    Book Review| October 01 2021 Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed Allan Amanik and Kami Fletcher, eds., Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed, (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020). viii + 288 pp. ISBN 978–1496–827–890. John M. Grondelski John M. Grondelski Falls Church, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2021) 7…

  • The Maska Dramatic Circle

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2020

  • Milion zza oceanu. Amerykanie polskiego pochodzenia w Armii USA w czasie drugiej Wojny Światowej / A Million Overseas

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2020

  • Disestablishment and Religious Dissent

    Open AccessJohn M GrondelskiARTICLEJournal of Church and State2020

  • Polonia kanadyjska

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2019

    Book Review| April 01 2019 Polonia kanadyjska: Przeszłość i teraźniejszość Waldemar Gliński, ed., Polonia kanadyjska: Przeszłość i teraźniejszość, [Canadian Polonia: Past and Present]. (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, 2016). 374 pp. ISBN 978–83–809–159–9. John M. Grondelski John M. Grondelski Falls Church, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2019) 76…

  • The Polish Protestant Emigration in Western Europe, America, and Australia in the 19th and 20th Centuries

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2018

    Book Review| October 01 2018 The Polish Protestant Emigration in Western Europe, America, and Australia in the 19th and 20th Centuries Jarosław Kłaczkow, The Polish Protestant Emigration in Western Europe, America, and Australia in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Trans. Anna Araucz (Toruń, Poland: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2014). 250 pp. ISBN 978-83-8019-115-0. John M. Grondelski John M. Grondelski Falls Church, Virginia Search for other works by …

  • Braterstwo a bagaż narodowy. Relacje etniczne w Kościele katolickim na ziemiach kanadyjskich do I wojny światowej [Fraternity and national baggage

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2017

    Book Review| October 01 2017 Braterstwo a bagaż narodowy. Relacje etniczne w Kościele katolickim na ziemiach kanadyjskich do I wojny światowej [Fraternity and national baggage: Ethnic relations in the Catholic Church in Canada until World War I] Anna Reczyńska, Braterstwo a bagaż narodowy. Relacje etniczne w Kościele katolickim na ziemiach kanadyjskich do I wojny światowej [Fraternity and national baggage: Ethnic relations in the Catholic Church …

  • A Testament to Faith

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2017

    Book Review| April 01 2017 A Testament to Faith: The First Polish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Christ the Lord Thomas L. Hollowak, A Testament to Faith: The First Polish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Christ the Lord. Baltimore: Historyk Press, 2015. 277 pp. ISBN 978-1-887124-46-1. John M. Grondelski John M. Grondelski Shanghai, China Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2017) 74 (1): 9…

  • Mili. Bo życie jest pielgrzymką

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2016

    Book Review| April 01 2016 57.5 mili. Bo życie jest pielgrzymką Leszek Szura, dir., 57.5 mili. Bo życie jest pielgrzymką, [57–1/2 Miles: Because Life Is a Pilgrimage] (Kraków: Studio Katolik, 2013). DVD (English and Polish). 60 min. ISBN 978-83-63436-43-8. John M. Grondelski John M. Grondelski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2016) 73 (1): 99–101. https://doi.org/10.5406/poliamerstud.73.1.0099 Ci…

  • Język polski w polonijnej szkole. Na przykładzie badań przeprowadzonych w Clark, New Jersey, USA [Polish Language in a Polonian School

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2016

  • My Years In and Out of “The Ivory Tower.”

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2015

    Book Review| October 01 2015 My Years In and Out of "The Ivory Tower." Thaddeus V. Gromada, My Years In and Out of "The Ivory Tower.", Hasbrouck Heights, NJ: Tatra Eagle Press, 2014. Paperback, $14.95. 235 pp. ISBN 978-0-09849187-2-0. John M. Grondelski John M. Grondelski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2015) 72 (2): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.5406/poliamerstud.72.2.0109 Views Icon Views Articl…

  • Interview with Professor Zbigniew Stawrowski on The Clash of Civilizations or Civil War

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEThe Polish Review2015

    Western society is facing a clash of civilizations, but the fault line lies not between the West and Islam but within Western society itself, as two competing models of freedom and the principles underlying the modern state, each employing terms like “rights” and “justice” but holding totally opposite meanings, vie to prevail. The contemporary Polish philosopher Witold Stawrowski’s new book, The Clash of Civilizations or Civil War, considers this…

  • The Clash of Civilizations or Civil War

    John M Grondelski, J GrondelskiARTICLEJournal of Church and State2015

    Western society is facing a clash of civilizations, contends Polish philosopher Zbigniew Stawrowski, but the clash is not between an allegedly postmodern West and a fundamentalist Islamic world. The fissure, he argues, lies rather within Western civilization itself, particularly in the philosophical premises underlying the modern state. How one understands religious freedom, he maintains, is essential to addressing that philosophical problem. “Th…

  • Emigracje bliskie i dalekie. Studium współczesnych emigracji zarobkowych na przykładzie województwa podlaskiego

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2014

    Book Review| April 01 2014 Emigracje bliskie i dalekie. Studium współczesnych emigracji zarobkowych na przykładzie województwa podlaskiego Barbara Cieślińska, Emigracje bliskie i dalekie. Studium współczesnych emigracji zarobkowych na przykładzie województwa podlaskiego, (Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2012). 410 pp. ISBN 978-83-7431-293-6. John M. Grondelski John M. Grondelski Search for other works by this author on: This Si…

  • Polish Parishes of the Diocese of La Crosse

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEPolish American Studies2014

  • Tatra Highlander Folk Culture in Poland and America

    John M GrondelskiARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2014

    Polish highlanders share many holiday customs in common with other Poles, such as the com- mon christmas eve dinner (Wigilia), during which the family shares the christmas wafer, or op?atek, the legend about farm animals hav- ing the ability to speak on that night. he also examines other christmas customs that are unique to the highlands, including the custom of washing in a bowl filled with precious coins after the wigilia supper, with its accom…