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kaprys   
21 Dec 2017
Genealogy / Want to find a person [762]

moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/lalewicz.html

there are over 400 people with such a name in Poland so you need to have more details.
kaprys   
21 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

@jon357
There was a time back in the 1990s, I think, when a lot of musicians turned to folk music. It was when Brathanki and Golec uOrkiestra became popular. Not as well known as they used to be, they're still recording. You can't forget Kayah&Bregovic - although based on Balkan tunes, the songs got a new vibe with Polish górale singing the back vocals and Kayah's lyrics are just amazing.

Zakopower are a relatively new thing and a nice modern mixture of folk and popular music. The singer's younger brother is in another similar band Future Folk.

And there's nothing like góralska muzyka-most górale seem to be very musical and their music is an important part of their folklore. They love it, Poles love it, too. Both in the traditional and modern versions.
kaprys   
21 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

As for the groups being on TV, well it's about the quality of what they show. And just because something is on TV doesn't mean they re good.

'W moim ogrodecku' has about 15 million views on YouTube. A group that I have never heard on tv or on the radio.
Mazowsze was founded over 60 years and they're highly professional and still touring.
kaprys   
21 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

How about Śląsk or Mazowsze? Golec uOrkiestra or Zakopower, Trebunie Tutki or Rokiczanka?
kaprys   
21 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Where I am it's just the priest, organista, nun or katechetka singing and the congregation joins in.
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Well, they might as well attend a regular mass on Christmas Day. Pasterka is the first mass of Christmas Day really.
As for drinking on Christmas Eve, not really postne. So if someone's religious enough to attend Pasterka, I guess they're religious enough not to get drunk at wigilia.
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Nah, people wouldn't go to church drunk.
Come on, Poles binge drinking argument?
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Again, I must live in a different country as I don't remember seeing 'impaired' people at Pasterka.
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Ours is indeed made with dried forest mushrooms and żurek/zakwas (plus loads of spices and cooked on veggie stock/wywar warzywny) but we have it with mashed potatoes served on the side.

My paternal grandmother made it and it became family tradition. Mum, who loves it too, had zupa grzybowa in her family home.
When I google it, it comes up as smaki Podlasia but Grandma came from Podkarpacie.

As for kutia, I like all bakalie and poppy seed so ..
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

I don't mind kutia, though we haven't had it for years.
For wigilia, we usually have barszcz grzybowy - just once a year but we do have 'regular' zupa grzybowa z lazankami or barszcz czerwony z uszkami on 25th or 26th. We also have fried carp once a year.

As for pierogi, they do taste better when made with forest mushrooms and loads of butter. And makowiec and sernik and opłatek ... Opłatek is probably the only thing that is not fattening :D

And then you see a lot of joggers sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve ;)
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

@jon357
Oh, Yes! And they taste best at this time of the year. Just like oranges. I guess it's this mixture of smells, flavours, music, cold weather (The only time of the year when I don't mind it), music and people you love around.

@all
I hope your Christmas will be a happy one wherever you are.
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

And back on topic ... Christmas is coming.
And polska wigilia. And all of those wonderful dishes and tunes of kolędy. And time with the people you love ;)
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Well, it does mean so in many cases. I believe that's the case here, too.
kaprys   
20 Dec 2017
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [401]

Palasz was a kind of sabre. You can look it up on google images.
Sekulski is either derived from Sekuła - part of Siedlce now or Latin 'saeculum'.
kaprys   
19 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

@Lyzko
I was being sarcastic. It's unbelievable how biased against Catholics you are. It's unbelievable how you keep playing the victim card at the same time. And it's hypocritical to accuse others of prejudice being so prejudiced yourself. I'm sick and tired of you repeating the same overgeneralisations over and over again. Well, if you say that antisemitism is part of Catholicism, I assume there are antisemitic Catholics among people you know. And if there are such, then yes, you do know strange people.

As for John Paul II, he was a great human being. You should learn from him how not to judge people on the basis of their religion, you little biased man. He was raised Catholic and had Jewish friends for all of his life- since his childhood in Wadowice. That questions your theory of antisemitism being part of Catholicism, doesn't it?

As for Mea Culpa, that indeed is part of Catholicism. Perhaps you should think about it, just to have a look at your own deeds and opinions.

Are there antisemites among Catholics? Yes, there are. The same applies to Protestants, Muslims, atheists and so on. Do some Jews, like yourself, are biased against Poles/Catholics or Muslims, atheists etc. - certainly.

It's a pity you seem to be the only Jew here, as with such an attitude, you yourself are an argument for antisemites that Jews hate Catholics or Poles.

Do you happen to know any Jews who are open minded who would like to join the forum and help some learn about Jewish customs, traditions and religion as I'm pretty sure there is more to Jews than what you keep talking about: antisemitism and Holocaust.
kaprys   
18 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

What kind of a Catholic defends antisemitism?
You know strange people, Lyzko :S
kaprys   
17 Dec 2017
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

@Ironside
Come on, why would a leftie care what the Pope thinks or any other religious leader?
As for Catholics and Poles not giving a damn about him, check the numbers at Światowe Dni Młodzieży last year.
So could you please explain why you think he's for lefties?
kaprys   
17 Dec 2017
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

@Ironside
And that pretty much sums up your Catholicism, darling ;)
Your far more concerned with politics than religion if you judge the Pope as being for lefties just because you disagree with some of his teachings.

What makes you disrespect him? Assuming you're a Catholic. I don't know if you are.

@Bluzeki
Is that a forum for Americans?
kaprys   
16 Dec 2017
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

He's not John Paul II for sure. He won't chat with the crowds under the okno papieskie in Kraków because of the language barrier. Górale won't sing 'Sycka se Wom zyczom'.

But let's face it, as soon as John Paul II left Poland, most of the cheering crowds forgot about his teachings, too.
kaprys   
16 Dec 2017
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

Pope Francis IS respected by a lot of Poles.
They respect his modesty.

It's 'priests' like Rydzyk and his helicopter/maybach or other priests who are more concerned with their temporal goods than their congregation, hiding pedophilia cases, no taxation, hypocrisy etc that makes people run away from the church.
kaprys   
16 Dec 2017
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [401]

I guess the origin of the name is connected with Ślęza, Slezanie or Slazacy. Notice the difference in spelling within several decades.
kaprys   
15 Dec 2017
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [401]

It was just an assumption on my part.
The origin of Polak might have also be connected to 'pole' as you pointed out.

That's the thing with the origins of surnames. In most cases, we can't be 100% sure.

BTW, going through some parish books I came across both Ślęzak and Szlęzak in the same parish, probably related - I guess it all depended how the priest wrote it down.

I guess that applies to lots of surnames.
kaprys   
15 Dec 2017
USA, Canada / Poles and Americans, what do you think, are we friends or enemies? [187]

Honestly speaking, I don't think it's surprising let's say third generation Polish Americans are not interested in Poland ;)
@idem
I think your experience is also different - you grew up in Poland, moved to the UK, yet live close enough to visit Poland on a regular basis.
kaprys   
15 Dec 2017
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [401]

Spellings changed. Once I met a woman called Hudzik. I asked about the spelling of her surname as I had come across several Chudziks before and she said her grandfather or great grandfather used Hudzik while his brother was Chudzik.

I guess it happened more around the 1900s and before. So Silesian Polok or Cashubian Poloch might have changed into Polak.
People also migrated more than we think. Tracing my own family history I found out my nineteenth century ancestors came from świętokrzyskie and podkarpackie -I live quite far from both. Who knows where their ancestors came from as I also have forementioned Węgrzyn and probably Szlezak in my family tree.
kaprys   
15 Dec 2017
USA, Canada / Poles and Americans, what do you think, are we friends or enemies? [187]

I'm not annoyed with Polish Americans, just that guy keeps writing the same things in almost every single post.

As for Polish Americans, their experience is different than Poles'. First generation immigrants' experience is different than their kids' or grandchildren's. And so on?

Are they pure Polish like me, you're asking
.. well, define 'pure Polish' ;)
kaprys   
15 Dec 2017
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [401]

How about a non-Silesian/Cashubian etc joining a Silesian/Cashubian (or any other) community? He was a Polak as opposed to others.
One of my great grandfathers was called Węgrzyn - quite a popular surname in Poland. I looked up the etymology of the surname and apparently it was used not only to call people from Hungary but also anyone from the south.

Polak might have evolved in a similar way.