However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, Polish customs remain delightfully distinctive. Most of the Polish Christmas celebrations take ...

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MINERSVILLE — Growing up in Poland, Katherine Pehlivan would gather with her family around the dining room table on the night before Christmas. Wigilia, as the Christmas Eve supper is called ...

Clevelanders have all kinds of traditions – familial ... had the privilege of partaking in this traditional Polish Wigilia (Christmas Eve supper) during my formative years.

Katherine “Kat” Pehlivan serves guests at Wigilia, or Holy Supper, in Kat’s Cafe & Restaurant, Minersville, on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2024. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO ...