Polish American Library and References
| IMMIGRATION INFORMATION: | |
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The INS OnLine |
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Current
Visa Lottery (DV-2004) (| LIBRARY | |
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Family Immigration History Center it is an excellent resource
to research family immigration records. |
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Cold War Interview documentation, which includes Zbigniew Brzezinski
among others, from the National Security Archives at Georgetown
University available online. Other links:
the entire archive , Parallel
history of NATO and the Warsaw Pact ,
The Harvard Project on Cold War . |
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| Fund for Central and
East European Book Projects in the Netherlands E-mail: ceebp@ceebp.org |
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GUS [Central Bureau of Statistics], site for Polish government
statistical information. |
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Hippocrene Books A New York publishing company that has published
many Polish books. |
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Library of Congress, Federal Research Division Country Study on
Poland . |
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Library of Congress in Washington DC link to Poland offers some
useful and original information, especially on legal issues under
www.loc.gov/law/guide/poland.html
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NGOs in Poland Exhaustive database of non-governmet orgnizations
in Poland (PORTAL ORGANIZACJI POZARZADOWYCH) |
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IN EUROPE FOUNDATION is Polish equivalent of Foreign Affairs,
a very prestigious political journal founded under the editorship
of the deceased legend of Polish journalism Eligiusz Lasota [of
Po Prostu, the firs anti-communist magazine in the former Soviet
bloc]. |
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Polish Academic Information Center at State University of New
York at Buffalo. It includes a
clickable map of all the Polish Studies programs in the United
States as well as compedium of scholarship on ethic relations and
social issues. |
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Welcome to the Polish
Bookstore in New York! Great selection of Polish books, music
and movies. |
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Home Army Association in Montreal (Canada) Polish Home Army
Ex-Servicemen Association (Apel o wspolprace) |
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Polish Library in Washington is a meeting place for events co-sponsored
with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland. |
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| Polish
Studies Center at Indiana University is the oldest academic
exchange program [with Warsaw University]; the centers sponsors
academic conferences and lectures. |
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Polish Subject Collection of the Hoover Institution Archives
at Stanford University |
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Polska Ludowa [Internet Museum of Communist PRL Poland; extensive
archival information with documents in Polish and English, with
visual and audio components.] |
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| Very informative Polish language
publishing industry portal from Warsaw with access to recent
book reviews. |
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| Regnery
Publishing, Inc. a Washington DC Publisher of "The Venona Secrets:
Exposing America's Cold War Traitors" |
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| Social
Science Research Council web site contains information about
fellowship, internship and grant opportunities. |
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| The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is an academic association and institute located in New York City, which sponsors an annual conference. | |
The Pilsudski
Institute Important historical holdings located in New York
City. |
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U.S. National Archives in Washington DC website with links to
presidential libraries. |
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| Cold
War history links on various subjects begin at this accessible
site. |
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| The
Polish Culture Portal of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute devoted
to the promotion of Polish Culture. |
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| ETHNIC RESOURCES |
| Dean James Pula's Lecture
on Poles and Afro-Americans. (
"Black-Polish Tensions: The Civil Rights Movement and its Relation
to Polonia" in MS Word format ) |
| Historical
retrospective with emphasis on early religious and political
migrations of Poles in America from the Catholic Encyclopedia. |
| Polish Geneological Society of
America website contains interesting links to retracing early
immigration history. |
| Zogby The
site of Zogby brothers polls, which includes information about ethnic
politics and values in America. It includes
Michael Szporer's column about the political significance of
the results of Zogby brothers ethnic polls for Polonia. |
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| CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN ORGANIZATIONS AND RESOURCES |
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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies is
the main academic organization in Slavic and East European Studies. |
| American Council
of Learned Societies website offers research grants and fellowships
on East European and Eurasian affairs. |
| Baltic Times
in English from Riga, Latvia |
| CEEBIC
US Department of Commerce Central and Eastern European Business
Information Center |
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Center for Eastern Studies Polish Government think-tank that
publishes information in English about the former Soviet Region |
| Center
for Strategic and International Studies often deals with Polish
and Central European affairs, and has a US UE Poland Action Commission
at
www.csis.org/poland/index.htm headed by Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Central
Europe Online English language magazine oriented towards business,
which reviews Polish affairs and reports news |
| Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation funds civil society project in Centrals
and Eastern Europe |
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INTERMARIUM [The First Online Journal of East Central European
Postwar History and Politics] edited by John Micgiel at Columbia
University and Andrzej Paczkowski of the Institute of Politics of
the Polish Academy of Science] |
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Johnson's Russia List Archive is an exhaustive compendium of
articles from world press in English focusing on Russia with archives
going back to 1996. |
| Network
of East West Women Very informative site of Network of East
West Women, an NGEo addressing the concerns of women in the region
with specific link to OSKA in Poland such as
Beata Kozak's EFKA in Cracow and the Women's Rights Center. |
| Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty [publishes a Poland, Belarus, Ukraine
edition] |
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The East Central European Studies Center at Columbia University
in New York |
| The Jamestown Foundation
publishes the Monitor full of excellent daily reviews of information
about the former Soviet region and other areas of potential turmoil,
as well as special studies in the Prism. |
| Warsaw University has Polish, English and distance
education programs, available at its site at www.come.uw.edu.pl/
The summer international program description of WISE 2000 is available
at http://come.uw.edu.pl/dcontent.php3?page_id=54&lang=polish |
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| FUNDING SOURCES |
| ATT Foundation
- Variety of community oriented projects. |
| Fellowship
/ Grant / Award Information For women, including international
Fellowships and Grants |
| Fellowship
and sponsorship programmes at NATO Link that contains information
about NATO fellowships and grants, part of the NATO site. |
| Foundation Center
web site which links thousands US private and corporate foundations. |
| Fulbright Scholar
Program CIES Fulbright program in Washington DC site contains
fellowship information and applications for scholars, university
faculty, teachers and other professionals. Institute of International Education program site deals principally with information for students and other professionals. The Fulbright program involves several different types of grants and is the largest government-sponsored international exchange named after former Senator William J. Fulbright. It includes support funding for research and teaching in Poland and other countries. www.fulbrightweb.org is the address of Fulbright community online with links to Alumni organizations and other related programs. |
| Fulbright
Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program USDA Graduate School
site contains useful information about Fulbright teacher exchanges. |
| Freedom
House is a bipartisan NGO devoted to democracy-building led
by Adrian Karatnycky with offices in New York and Washington DC,
as well as representatives in Warsaw and countries that administer
the PAUCI [Poland America Ukraine Cooperative Initiative] grant
program headed by John Kubiniec, the Visiting Fellows Program and
other regional endeavors. |
| Howard Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI) – individual and institutional grants |
| International
Education and Graduate Programs US Department of Education,
International Education and Graduate Program site, including USED
Fulbrights for American graduate students and faculty, Javits fellowships
in the arts and international foreign language educational support
information. |
| International
Programs National Science Foundation |
| International Research
and Exchanges Board (IREX) at one time sponsored by the Ford
Foundation for Eastern Europe and university consortia still offers
some funding for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet region. |
| MacArthur Foundation
International peace and security, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation |
| Petroleum
Research Fund, American Chemical Society - most awards provide
partial funding for foreign speakers at major symposia in the United
States or Canada. |
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The Batory
Foundation, a branch of Soros Foundation in Poland. |
| The
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) State Department
site of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs containing
useful grants and fellowship information on Humphrey and other Fulbright-related
grants. |
| The John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for
advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences,
humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. |
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National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Council
for Eurasian and East European Research in Washington DC site contains
support information for postdoctoral research on Central and Eastern
Europe. |
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National Endowment for Democracy (NED) principal funding agency
supporting democratization. It was the original funding source for
Gazeta Wyborcza among other Polish initiatives. |
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Kosciuszko Foundation An important Polish American source for
fellowships and grants located in New York City. |
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Polish-American Freedom Foundation , the legacy foundation from
the Polish American Enterprise Fund, in English and Polish; the
largest NGO in Poland |
| The Soros Foundation
Network located in New York funds projects that promote open
society. |
| Women's
International Science Collaboration Program, American Association
for the Advancement of Science |
