| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939. By Karen Majewski. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xxii, 242 pp. Cloth, $42.95, ISBN 0-8214-1469-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8214-1470-4.)
While conducting archival research I spent a few months on Chicago's northwest side, renting a room from a working-class Polish American family. My friendly landlady, knowing that I was studying Polish American history, one day proudly presented me with a book she recommended as "a really great book from the Polish American past." The book, falling apart from repeated reading, was Stanisëaw Osada's novel W dniach nëdzy i zbrodni (In the days of misery and crime, 1908). I was amazed to see that this highly nationalistic suspense novel was still admired as late as 1986.	1
In this book, the second in the Polish and Polish-American Studies series edited by John Bukowczyk for Ohio University Press, Karen Majewski analyzes a special ethnic literary genre: fiction written by and for Polish immigrants at the turn of the century. These books, purchased for a few cents at neighborhood bookstores or groceries, passed through many hands before being handed down through several generations, as evidenced by the volume my landlady shared with me.	. . .

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