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2020

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Polish Organizations And Chicago's Polonia, 1880-1930, Anna Kathleen Leska May 2020

Polish Organizations And Chicago's Polonia, 1880-1930, Anna Kathleen Leska

Theses and Dissertations

Despite a large, growing amount of literature on the Polish community in Chicago, there remains a lack of information about organizations in the Polish communities. Organizations in the Polish community are generally spoken about in one of two ways. Either one organization is spoken about in great depth or organizations are barely touched upon. This work seeks to bridge both of those types of work by focusing both on small organizations and large organizations and connecting them through the Poles who were members.

The Oral History of Chicago’s Polonia project, 1880-1930, is used in this work to limit the number …