Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [997]

@Miloslaw
I didn't know that particular song by Frąckowiak but I know the artist.
Your parents, grandparents, TV and now youtube help you get to know old songs.

As for Krystyna Pronko I have two favourites
Psalm stojących w kolejce

youtu.be/aU-3t8Wav7U

Jesteś lekiem na całe zło

youtu.be/HeyX1H3HTVQ

I actually didn't know Trafić w czas but it's good.

@Zlatko
The most famous one is Metro, I think.
First performed in the 1990s.
Litania by Edyta Górniak

youtu.be/fNOEJuScx9I

There are more I think plus Polish versions of internationally known musicals.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

@mafketis
I think it was used in certain dialects -perhaps still is-not necessarilly Eastern ones.
There's this funny article about the Silesian dialect about three boys from the same neighbourhood that I can't find right know. But the whole point was to show the differences within the dialect like calling grandma babcia, oma and starka but also addressing their grandparents. I can't remember the exact examples but it was something like:

Co robisz?
Co Babcia robi?
Co robicie?

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [997]

@Miloslaw
Mrozu is ok.

But just because I remembered Kamerdyner yesterday -thinking of watching it again soon - Kortez and Stare drzewa.

youtu.be/wrrabeo98UQ

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

@Peter Taylor
OK, where do these documents come from?
Poland or the US? Especially the one you mention in your last post?
All of these names look somehow Germanised but still get no results in Google searches.
Have you found her immigration documents?
Was she RC or Jewish?
When did she immigrate?

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

@mafketis
Actually my dad often refers to his parents as babcia and dziadek. When he talks about his childhood he says Mama and Tata, though.

Also when you address your in-laws, it's common to sort of replace pan/pani with mama/tata like Co Mama robi?

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

I believe someone might have misread the gothic. ..

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [997]

@Chemikiem
I don't think I know Czerwony Tulipan yet the first song sounds familiar. I must have heard it before.
Samotna is just beautiful.

Akurat is great and their version of Do prostego człowieka is one of my favourite songs. The pretty much still up to date poem by Julian Tuwim from 1929 and Klaptocz's interpretation is just amazing.

Another poem by Tuwim in Klaptocz's interpretation this time with Buldog -Chrystus miasta

youtu.be/1_bEzlu4S74

And another one: Do generalow

youtu.be/MiJ6MFk4kfU

And one more
Ostry erotyk

youtu.be/Yxho8-cpT1I

News / Poland adds Latin to core curriculum to help pupils understand foundation of Western civilisation [13]

Where will they get Latin teachers from?

I remember my Latin classes at university which was learning the basics in the first semester and translating original poems from Latin into Polish in the second semester. ..

And we learnt that song that starts the academic year!

Genealogy / Want to find a person [755]

@rmcdnepa
Were they from Kolbuszowa or Suwałki? They're pretty far from each other.
Start by garhering info about them in the US like immigration records on familysearch etc.
To be certain you find the correct people or know where to look, it'd be best to know their place of birth and religion.

Here's a site that helps you find out in which branch of state archives you may find archived records (some are available online )

szukajwarchiwach.pl/

Another useful tool is geneteka where millions of records are indexed but since it's a tedious job done by volunteers not everything is indexed.

geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=se&lang=eng

Kolbuszowa is in podkarpackie and Suwałki is in podlaskie.

News / Poland adds Latin to core curriculum to help pupils understand foundation of Western civilisation [13]

Well, they may teach them how to sing Gaudeamus Igitur :)

youtu.be/fndmGM2s5Rk

Genealogy / Popular non-Poles of Polish descent [17]

Perhaps it would be more obvious that Pat Benatar is of Polish descent if she used her real name.
I had to google her anyway.
However, Sambora doesn't sound particularly Polish but it is apparently a Polish surname and Richie Sambora is also of Polish descent.
Johnny Galecki and Simon Helberg from TBBT also have some Polish ancestors.
And there's this comedy actor Danny Pudi who is half Polish and half Indian. Here's a video of him singing Płynie Wisła

youtu.be/cNFkIoSbvx0

As for alleged hatred towards the Polish diaspora, Moja droga ja Cię kocham seems to be quite well known here.

Genealogy / Polish Romani (gypsy) surnames [64]

@Taven baxtale
These are not Polish surnames - the diactric marks suggest another language.

@Kuchinski
It's a Polish surname.
It might be used by Polish Gypsies like other Polish surnames.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

@pawian
I love this joke :)

Genealogy / Popular non-Poles of Polish descent [17]

@Lenka
I've heard of her Polish roots as well. Though their ancestors might have come from what is now Ukraine. I remember her posting about her visit to Kiev. But I don't know really.

And there's the actress who plays Leonard's mother - Christine Baranski.

@Miloslaw
I also thought he was Italian. His surname looked kind of Italian to me. It turns out Sambor is an old Slavic first name. Oops.

@Chemikiem
I didn't know about Jon Bon Jovi though.

But apparently even Steven Tyler has some Polish ancestors.

@Joker
Some say his ancestors were Lipka Tatars.

And Bronson kind of reminded me of others. I have a biography of Lauren Bacall who was apparently friends with Kirk Douglas when they were teenagers - both of Polish Jewish descent.

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [997]

@Chemikiem
These were nice.

Now something that some kind of hum in a sarcastic way when you need to wake up in the morning and you're not happy about it.

I kind of always 'knew' it was that old joyful song but just recently I came across it on YouTube and even though it begins as I expected I got really surprised when another singer joins in at 1:25 or so. It sounds great when that lady sings it.

As a curiosity really. And those hairdos and fashion :) I wonder what people will think of how we dress now in some 45 years :)

Radość o poranku

youtu.be/4yB7M5u3urA

Apparently someone agrees with me and uploaded just the part of the song when she sings.
Renata Lewandowska in Radość o poranku

youtu.be/33-f3K_CWDA

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

Działają

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

Looks like Kurczyna to me - a surname?

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [997]

@Chemikiem
I liked both of these especially the second one.

Now some Kora -it was her death's anniversary yesterday.
Krakowski spleen.

youtu.be/BaVVaS2n6MY

Po polsku / Dlaczego nie po drodze nam z polską prawicą [1393]

Mężczyźni różnią się od kobiet, a kobiety od mężczyzn. I fajnie.
Ale nie można wszystkich kobiet czy wszystkich mężczyzn wrzucać do jednego worka. Są ludzie fajni, mniej fajni i kanalie. Mądrzy i mniej mądrzy. Ciekawi i nudni.

Trzeba po prostu znaleźć sobie kogoś o podobnych wartościach i tyle.
Natomiast patriarchat czy matriarchat nie usprawiedliwiaja przemocy i tyle. Bez względu na to czy jest to przemoc wobec żony, męża czy dzieci.
Pamiętam takie szczere wyznanie mężczyzny, który teraz byłby po szescdziesiatce, o jego dzieciństwie - coś o czym rzadko ktoś mówi, a poza tym o czasach, w których zwykle trwało się w małżeństwie bez względu na to jakie ono byłoby. Jego ojciec bił mamę. Kiedy miał piętnaście lat po prostu stanął między nimi i powiedział ojcu, że jeśli jeszcze raz uderzy mamę, to on uderzy jego.

To ten chłopak wykazał się prawdziwym męstwem, a nie jego ojciec, który tłukł matkę.
Co jest męskiego w przyłożeniu komuś slabszemu?
A różnimy się fizycznie. Oczywiście to wszystko zależy, ale jednak kobiety jednak zwykle są słabsze fizycznie i drobniejsze od mężczyzn. Oczywiście są wysokie kobiety i niscy mężczyźni, ale tak czy inaczej hormony też wpływają chocby na budowę ciała.

Różnimy się też biologicznie. Kobieta w ciąży czy połogu raczej średnio nadaje się do walki czy polowania choćby miała metr osiemdziesiąt i sto kilo wagi, a w czasach gdy o antykoncepcji nie wiedziano nic, kobiety rodziły spokojnie przez kilkadziesiąt lat swojego zycia jeśli któraś ciąża ich nie osłabila lub nie zabiła. Tudzież inna przypadłość fizyczna czy choroba.

Co do romansów, to nie czytam, więc trudno mi się wypowiadać. Greya też nie czytałam i nie oglądałam. Nie moja bajka. Pytanie czy jak ktoś jest fanem kryminałów lub fantasy to odpowiednio planuje morderstwo bądź walczy z krasnalami czy innymi elfami w wolnej chwili.

Super jak dwojka ludzi spotka się i zbuduje fantastyczny związek, ale jeśli tak nie jest, jeśli jedna strona jest krzywdzona, to po co w nim trwać?

Ale nie bądźmy też hipokrytami i nie uniewazniajmy ślubu kościelnego ot tak, bo z tamtym czy tamtą mi nie wyszło, ale fajnie jest brać ślub w kościele, to sobie poprzedni pozwolę unieważnić.

Się napisałam - będzie za kilkanaście innych postów.

Po polsku / Dlaczego nie po drodze nam z polską prawicą [1393]

@Ironside
Obrzucanie przeciwników politycznych tudzież osób o odmiennym zdaniu obelgami wydaje się tu normą. Z jednej i z drugiej strona, więc przejdźmy może do konkretów.

Co jest takiego złego w Konwencji Stambulskiej czyli tak de facto konwencji o zapobieganiu i zwalczaniu przemocy wobec kobiet i przemocy domowej?

History / Project to set up weaving factories in Lodz in the 1880's [2]

The development of the industry in the 19th century Łódź was to a great extent. Within a hundred years it changed from a village of less than a thousand people to half a million industrial centre.

That's where the term Lodzermenschen comes
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodzermensch

In popular culture it's the topic of the novel and then film The Promised Land. It tells a story of three friends a Pole, a German and a Jew trying to set up their own factory.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promised_Land_(novel)

Łódź was also pretty multicultural with Poles, Jews, Germans and Russians and their respective cultures and religions.
You may try contacting the state archives in Łódź for information about your family's metrical records as for their work experience I'm not sure the archives may find it easy if you don't know where he worked but that information might be in the church records assuming your family members were born, married and died there. Usually only their social status is mentioned though.

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [997]

Something that may not be labelled as popular music but here's a video of Warszawskie dzieci sung yesterday during Warszawiacy śpiewają niezakazane piosenki. The sign language interpreter did her best.

youtu.be/ZU9FLvqehNg

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [395]

There are posts on Facebook (and probably on other social media )that try to ridicule the W hour in Warsaw. They say that the decision to start the uprising was a tragic one.

Personally, I think people want to pay their respects to the victims and survivors. That's how I feel about it.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Carp is a must on Christmas Eve for me.
I eat it once or twice a year (if there are leftovers) and I truly enjoy it.
My sister-in-law doesn't eat carp and I can't understand why on earth anyone would eat other fish on that day if you can have it all year long.

It's in my blood, I'm sorry.
Actually I'm not :)

Real Estate / False advertising? Poland rental property advice. [34]

You need to get some professional advice. We don't know what your contract says.
Just collect evidence and contact a lawyer.
I'm sorry but why would you pay four thousand zloty for a flat without sockets?

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [997]

@Miloslaw
There's actually a great fan made video to 'Uprising' with footages from the Uprising.

History / BEATS OF FREEDOM - A HISTORY OF POLISH ROCK MUSIC [106]

I don't know much about those days but I know Jarocin was a big thing and there was this young couple who had Iron Maiden play at their wedding in 1984.

youtu.be/knC743Nds4Q

History / Cursed soldiers controvercy - not all Poles respect them [266]

There were good and bad ones in all Polish social classes and within ethnicities living in Poland at different times in history.
Not all NOBLEmen were that noble.
Take Targowica or Potocki who refused to cooperate with the Polish underground but was ok with hosting Gorring in Łańcut. There are more and more examples.

As for Jews in the communist/stalinist authorities , there were many but it wasn't only Jews who were responsible for Stalinist atrocities in Poland.

As for cursed soldiers, we can't judge them as a whole but their individual deeds.

Life / Understanding Polish Mailing Addresses [21]

00-910 is the postcode

The second line should be like:
ul. (Name of the street) 18 m.17

Ul=ulica -street

What seems to be missing is the name of the street. 18 is probably the house number and 17 is the flat number.

Genealogy / Polish names that sound like Scandinavian or Hungarian ones? [4]

Probably most names that are typical for common European tradition:
Barbara, Ewa, Maria, Marta, Monika, Karolina, Anna, Agata, Joanna, Julia, Teresa etc.
Artur, Adam, Robert, Tomasz, Patryk, Aleksander, Marek, Antoni, Michał etc.