{"id":25646,"date":"2016-06-09T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=25646"},"modified":"2016-07-08T00:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:51:56","slug":"the-essential-guide-to-being-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=25646","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Guide to Being Polish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During last Polish Festival <strong>Ania Spysz<\/strong> was signing her book, <strong><em>The Essential Guide to Being Polish.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>She did not expect the book will be sold out in two hours!<\/p>\n<p>The book is still available on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Essential-Guide-Being-Polish\/dp\/0985062304\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1374021064&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 You can choose either Kindle version or paperback.\u00a0 It would make great gift for American friends, husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends.\u00a0 Surely, we want to read it too and check if we see Poland the same way!<\/p>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Essential-Guide-Being-Polish\/dp\/0985062304\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1374021064&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1' class='small-button smallblue' target=\"_blank\"><span>Buy the book on Amazon<\/span><\/a>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.annaspysz.com\/' class='small-button smallblue' target=\"_blank\"><span>www.annaspysz.com<\/span><\/a>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ania_spysz_guide_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25647\" alt=\"ania_spysz_guide_m\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ania_spysz_guide_m.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ania_spysz_guide_m.jpg 537w, https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ania_spysz_guide_m-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ania_spysz_guide_m-390x600.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon book description:<\/p>\n<p><em>Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter&#8211;and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore,and customs, there is no single, comprehensive, reader-friendly and yet ever-informative reference on what it means to be Polish.\u00a0Enter The Essential Guide to Being Polish &#8212; the go-to concise resource for anyone looking to reconnect with their culture or, indeed, hoping that their friends, children, or colleagues learn something about their heritage.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Divided into three sections to make for an easy-to-follow format &#8211;Poland in Context, Poles in Poland, and Poles Abroad &#8212; this\u00a0guide covers just about everything and does so in a style that is at once entertaining and informative: the country&#8217;s history and geography, wars, Jews in Poland, the communist past, the postcommunist past and present, language, kings and queens, religion\/Catholicism (with special focus on Pope John Paul II), holidays, food, and drink. What is a real Polish wedding all about?\u00a0That, too, is addressed succinctly and with flair in this guide. Other chapters cover literature, music, art, famous scientists, Polish men and Polish women, Poles in America, Poles in the UK, Poles and the EU, and last but not least, Polish pride.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During last Polish Festival Ania Spysz was signing her book, The Essential Guide to Being Polish.\u00a0 She did not expect the book will be sold out in two hours! 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