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Bauck, Elisabeth. Das hässliche Brüderchen.
Erzählung. Neue Stereotyp-Ausgabe. Lahr, Baden; New York: Kaufmann,
n.d. 64 pp.
Story is set in Switzerland.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; inscribed Benjamin Hoppert,
For Christmas in School, 1908; Druck von Ensslin & Laiblin in Reutlingen.
Bitterfüss, Augustinus. Julian. Ein Charakterbild
aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Cleveland, Ohio: Deutsches Verlagshaus der Reformirten
Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten; Aug. Becker, Agent, 1885. 101 pp.
Concludes: "Julian Imhof hatte gelobt: 'Dein Volk ist mein Volk.' Amerika
war nun sein Heimathland und die Stadt der Bruderliebe sein Wohnort. Er blieb
lange in der eingenommenen Stellung und war gesegnet in Schule und Haus. Einmal
unternahm er eine Besuchsreise nach der Schweiz, aber der Liebe süsse Pflicht
rief ihn bald zurück."
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Caspari, K. H. Das Christkindlein. / Der
Schwedenschimmel. Zwei Erzählungen. Neue Stereotyp-Ausgabe. Lahr
(Baden); New York: Kaufmann, n.d. 32 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; inscribed Mr. Bennie
Hoppert, R. F. D. #4, Sheboygan, Wis.
Courths-Mahler, Hedwig. Opfer der Liebe. Roman.
Reutlingen: Ensslin & Laiblin, n.d. [1930?]. 316 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; "Ensslins Romane.
Eine Sammlung guter Haus- und Familienromane; on title page: Ensslin & Laiblins
Verlag.
Davidis, Henriette. Praktisches Kochbuch für die bürgerliche
und feiner Kueche: Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Anfängerinnen
und angehenden Hausfrauen. Ausgabe für Amerika. Marie Wesenberg,
ed. Hamburg: H. Carly, n.d. [19--?]. 414 pp., ill.
Also on titlepage: Neu durchgesehen und bearbeitet von Marie Wesenberg. Mit
Anhang: Was soll der Kranke und Genesende essen und trinken, und was darf er
nicht essen und trinken? Ausgabe für Amerika mit amerikanischen Massen
und Gewichten und deutsch-englischem Wörterverzeichnis; inscribed on p.
8: Frank J. Steger, 1909 Cooper Ave., Sheboygan, Wis; donated by Sheboygan County
Historical Research Center.
Deutsche Evangelische Synode von Nord-Amerika, ed. Deutsch-Amerikanischer
Jugendfreund. St. Louis, Mo.: Eden Publishing House.
Holdings: 25. Jahrgang, 1914 (No. 1, Januar; No. 6, Juni; No. 7, Juli); 26.
Jahrgang, 1915 (No. 3, Maerz; No. 9, September); 27. Jahrgang, 1916 (No. 6,
Juni); 28. Jahrgang, 1917 (No. 3, Maerz); 29. Jahrgang, 1918 (No. 5, Mai).
Donated by Prof. Philip E. Webber, Pella, Iowa.
Diers, Marie, and Friedrich Thieme. Die sieben Sorgen des
Doktor Joost / Flitterwochen. Kriminal-Erzählung.
[La Crosse, Wis.?: Nordstern Association?, 1910?]. 240 pp.
Donated by Susan Strang, 2005; cover missing.
[Doddridge, Philip.] Das Leben des Obristen Gardiner.
(The Life of Col. James Gardiner). New York: Amerikanische Tractat-Gesellschaft,
n.d. 52 pp., 1 ill.
Aus dem Englischen übersetzt; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research
Center.
Dorn, Käthe. An Gottes Hand. Drei Erzählungen
für die Jugend. Neue Stereotyp-Ausgabe. Lahr, Baden; New York: Kaufmann,
n.d. 96 pp., col. ill.
Contents: Dunkle Segenstunden / Der Reisig-Heinz / Eine heilsame Verirrung.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Das fremde Kind. Perlen. Kleine Erzählungen
für Kinder. Zweiundzwangzigste Serie, 88. Milwaukee: Brumder, n.d. 32 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Fuerst, Fr. Unsere Deutschlandreise 1926: Reisebericht
von Pastor Fuerst. [Mosel, Wis.: s.n.], 1926. 48 pp.
Begins: "Es war am Sonntag, den 30. Mai, als wir von unseren lieben Gemeinden,
Mosel und Meeme, in zwei Gottesdiensten Abschied nahmen, um die laengstgeplante
Reise nach Deutschland anzutreten." Describes both travels in America and
in Germany. The conclusion indicates some antisemitism.
On cover: Fr. Fuerst, Town Mosel; also have second copy, but missing cover and
in three sections; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Die Glaubenslehre und Kirchenordnung der Evangelischen
Gemeinschaft von Nord-Amerika. Cleveland, Ohio: Verlagshaus der Evangelischen
Gemeinschaft, 1893. 194 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Glaubrecht,
O. Die Heimkehr oder Was fehlt uns? Eine Erzählung
für das Volk. Konstanz, Emmishofen, and New York: Hirsch, n.d. 192
pp., col. ill.
Illustrated cover; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; inscribed
Willie Albrecht.
Gustav Adolf in Deutschland. Germania Jugend-Bibliothek,
[47]. Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder, n.d. 120 pp.
Begins: "Es war an einem Sonntagnachmittag gegen Ende Januar des Jahres
1630. Winterliche Stille herrschte auf den Plätzen und Strassen Stockholms;
die dicht fallenden Schneeflocken verhüllten den Blick in die Ferne und
Verursachten eine frühzeitige Dämmerung selbst in den Räumen
des hochgelegenen Schlosses."
Inscribed Willie Albrecht; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Harders, Gustav. Jaalahn. Die Geschichte einer Indianerliebe.
Siebente Auflage. [Milwaukee: Northwestern], 1913. 270 pp., ill.
German-American author; also on title page: Mit 7 Illustrationen [and] Hamburg,
Agentur des Rauhen Hauses [and] Alleinige Auslieferung fuer Nord-Amerika: North-Western
Publishing House, Milwaukee; Nachschrift des Verfassers is signed "Arizona,
Juni 1911"; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; book
is in poor condition.
[Henson, Josiah. Wirkliche Lebensgeschichte des Onkels
Tom in] Frau Beecher-Stowe's "Onkel Tom's Huette."
(Life of Joshiah Henson. German). Frei nach dem Englischen von Marie Schweikher.
Autorisirte Ausgabe. Marie Schweikher. Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, 1878.
208 pp., frontispiece portrait.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; top halves of title
page, foreword, and table of contents missing.
[Heymann, Robert.] Bei den Goldgräbern Australiens.
Blaue Bücher, 15. Berlin: Verlag moderner Lektüre (M. Lehmann), n.d. [1908?].
32 pp.
"Blaue Bücher. Jeder Band eine abgeschlossene spannende Erzählung";
Robert Heymann (1879-?) wrote under the pseudonym Max Ladenburg.
Detective story featuring Pat Conner; story begins in Sydney, Australia.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
———.
Der Bund der Sieben. Blaue Bücher, 20. Berlin:
Verlag moderner Lektüre (M. Lehmann), n.d. [1908?]. 32 pp., ill.
"Blaue Bücher. Jeder Band eine abgeschlossene spannende Erzählung";
Robert Heymann (1879-?) wrote under the pseudonym Max Ladenburg.
Story of the detective Pat Conner, who operates in America. Story begins: "In
der Wohnung des Meister-Detektivs Pat Conner in Brooklyn, der Seitenstadt New
Yorks, erschien mittags gegen zwölf Uhr ein Beamter der Sicherheitsabteilung."
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
———. Das einsame Haus im Moore.
Blaue Bücher, 21. Berlin: Verlag moderner Lektüre (M. Lehmann), n.d. [1908?].
32 pp.
"Blaue Bücher. Jeder Band eine abgeschlossene spannende Erzählung";
Robert Heymann (1879-?) wrote under the pseudonym Max Ladenburg.
Detective story featuring Pat Conner; story begins in London.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
———. Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Perle.
Blaue Bücher, 11. Berlin: Verlag moderner Lektüre (M. Lehmann), n.d.
[1908?]. 32 pp.
"Blaue Bücher. Jeder Band eine abgeschlossene spannende Erzählung";
Robert Heymann (1879-?) wrote under the pseudonym Max Ladenburg.
Story of the detective Pat Conner, who operates in America.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
———. Das Gemeimniss eines Schrankes.
Blaue Bücher, 16. Berlin: Verlag moderner Lektüre (M. Lehmann), n.d. [1908?].
32 pp., ill.
"Blaue Bücher. Jeder Band eine abgeschlossene spannende Erzählung";
Robert Heymann (1879-?) wrote under the pseudonym Max Ladenburg.
Detective story featuring Pat Conner; story begins in Spain.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
———. Die Hand mit den vier Fingern.
Blaue Bücher, 16. Berlin: Verlag moderner Lektüre (M. Lehmann), n.d. [1908?].
32 pp., ill.
"Blaue Bücher. Jeder Band eine abgeschlossene spannende Erzählung";
Robert Heymann (1879-?) wrote under the pseudonym Max Ladenburg.
Detective story featuring Pat Conner; story begins in Paris.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
———. Im Kampf um eine Frau. Blaue
Bücher, 14. Berlin: Verlag moderner Lektüre (M. Lehmann), n.d. [1908?]. 32
pp., ill.
"Blaue Bücher. Jeder Band eine abgeschlossene spannende Erzählung";
Robert Heymann (1879-?) wrote under the pseudonym Max Ladenburg.
Detective story featuring Pat Conner; story begins in Brazil.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
———. Die Schrecken des Schatzschiffes.
Blaue Bücher, 19. Berlin: Verlag moderner Lektüre (M. Lehmann), n.d. [1908?].
32 pp.
"Blaue Bücher. Jeder Band eine abgeschlossene spannende Erzählung";
Robert Heymann (1879-?) wrote under the pseudonym Max Ladenburg.
Detective story featuring Pat Conner; story begins in Yokohama, Japan.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
"Himmelsblumen." Neue Erzählungen für
Jung und Alt. Neunter Band. Konstanz: Hirsch, 160 pp., ill.
Contents: Ein Glaubensschwur unter deutschen Eichen. Erzählung von Käthe
Dorn; Der Drache vor der goldenen Leiter. Erzählung für Jung und Alt,
von M. von Panitza; Gottes Führungen. Erzählung von E. v. W.; Führe
uns nicht in Versuchung. Erzählung von E. v. W.; Anita. Erzählung
von J. N.; Ein welkes Blatt. Erzählung von J. N.; Treue um Treue. Eine
Erzählung aus dem Leben von Adelheid Etmer.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Hoffmann, Franz. Prüfungen. Eine Erzählung für
meine jungen Freunde. Amerikanische Stereotyp-Ausgabe. Philadelphia:
Kohler, 1866. 108 pp.
Book is in poor condition with pages 107-108 loose; donated by Sheboygan County
Historical Research Center, 2004; sticker inside front cover: Bibliothek der
Sonntags-Schule der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Nummero
59.
———. Der Schein trügt, die Wahrheit
siegt! Eine Erzählung für meine Freunde. Amerikanische Stereotyp-Ausgabe.
Philadelphia: Kohler, n.d. 119 pp.
Book is in very poor condition; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research
Center, 2004; sticker inside front cover: Bibliothek der Sonntags-Schule der
Evangelischen Gemeinschaft, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Nummero 105.
Horn,
W., ed. Blüthenkranz von Erzählungen. VI.
Cleveland, Ohio: W. F. Schneider, c1876. 62 pp., col. ill.
Illustrations appear to be stickers adhered to blank pages; donated by Sheboygan
County Historical Research Center; inscribed Minnie Sass.
Contents: Der verlorene Sohn -- Ein hausirender Jude -- Segen des Gottvertrauens.
———, comp. Kinderlust. II. Liebliche
Erzählungen für die Jugend. Zweite Serie. Cleveland, Ohio:
W. F. Schneider, n.d. 48 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; book is in poor condition.
Contents: Halbpart -- Eine aussergewöhnliche Warnung.
Illustrierter Familien-Kalender für das Jahr 1924.
Ein Jahrbuch für Unterhaltung und Information. [S.l.: s.n., 1923?].
160 pp., ill.
Partial contents: Zum Neuen Jahr [von] Frida Schanz / Still sinkt die heilige
Nacht [von] Viktor Blüthgen / Friede--nein, noch immer Hass auf Erden--Welt-Rundschau
/ Lufverkehr im Jahre 1923 [von] G. L. Scheffer / Sternauge [von] Zachris Topelius
/ Die grosse Erfindung [von] F. Clemens / Der moderne Krösus [von] Wilhelm
C. Laube / Zudringliche Mitbewohner [von] Dr. E. Bade / Warum ist das Singen
so gesund [von] R. Bürger / Immer bei den ersten Flocken [von] Arthur Meltzer
/ Grosspapa [von] Paul Bliss / Eine leere Drohung [von] D. F. Franzelly / Die
Herstellung von Tapeten [von] Rudolf Hartmann / Das Reich der Hausfrau / Wie
sollen unsere Kinder spielen / Die Pflege der Zähne und des Mundes [von]
Dr. Med. F. Dumstrey / Marias Frühlingsfahrt [von] Balduin Groller / Wie
man amerikanischer Bürger wird.
Title on cover: Familien Kalender 1924; donated
by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
In guter Schule. Eine Erzählung. Germania Jugend-Bibliothek,
94. Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder, n.d. 140 pp.
Begins: "Ein dichter Nebel lagerte über der weiten, unabsehbaren lombardischen
Ebene und kam näher auf die grosse Stadt Mailand."
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; book is in poor condition,
with loose pages.
Kretzmann,
Paul E. Kinderzeit im Pfarrhaus. Nach vielen Quellen von
nah und fern. Konstanz: Hirsch, n.d. 95 pp., col. ill. 
The setting is "unweit der Gestade des Ohio," or "near the banks
of the Ohio."
German-American author; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Der Kreuzfahrer Kalender 1913. Vol. 21, no. 1. Mount
St. Sepulchre, Washington, D.C.: Commissariat of the Holy Land, 1912. 64 pp.,
ill.
Title on cover: Der Palästina-Pilger oder Der Kreuzfahrer Kalender; issued
quarterly; "Der 'Kreuzfahrer-Kalender' wird in englischer, deutscher und
polnischer Sprache herausgegeben"; donated by Susan Strang.
Krez, Konrad. Aus Wisconsin. Gedichte. Zweite vermehrte
und veränderte Auflage. Milwaukee: Brumder, 1895. vi, 192 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; also taped in is a newspaper
clipping of "Die Brautfahrt" by Konrad Krez.
———. Aus Wiskonsin. Gedichte.
New York: E. Steiger, 1875. v, 139 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; book is in poor condition,
with pages 107-139 nearly separating.
Lampe, Friedrich Adolph. Der heilige Brautschmuck der Hochzeitsgäste
des Lammes an seiner Bundestafel, in einer Verhandlung von dem rechten Gebrauch
des heiligen Abendmahls. Cleveland, Ohio: [Evangelisch Reformirte Buch-Anstalt],
n.d. 196 pp.
On title page: "Zur gemeinen Erbauung aufgesetzt von Friedrich Adolph Lampe,
Diener des Wortes"; Gedruckt in der Druckerei des "Evangelisten";
on t.p. verso: Neu herausgegeben von der Sheboygan Klassis; donated by Sheboygan
County Historical Research Center.
Lose, George William. Ein Knecht des Königs. Erzählung.
Chicago: Wartburg, n.d. 59 pp., col. ill.
German-American author; Mit zwei Tondruckbildern; inscribed Willie Albrecht;
donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Society.
Mayer, Friedrich. "Aus den Erlebnissen eines Achtundvierzigers in Amerika."
Deutsch-Amerikanischer Jugendfreund, vol. 25, no.
1, Januar 1914, pp. 8-10, 12.
Begins: "Ich kam als junger Pfarrer nach Jackson. Mein gemeindlein war
recht klein, es galt neue Glieder herbeizuziehen." Mentions the presidential
election of 1896; Mayer heard Theodore Roosevelt and Karl Schurz speak Recounting
a conversation with a man from his home village, we learn about his Civil War
service and the execution of the four alleged co-conspirators of John Wilkes
Booth.
Mgebroff, Johannes. "Wie es in Texas vor 75 Jahren aussah." Deutsch-Amerikanischer
Jugendfreund, vol. 25, no. 7, Juli 1914, pp. 207-11.
Mgebroff submitted this letter written by Julia von Wrede on September 1830
at Austin Kolonie, Texas.
[Münch, Paul Georg.] Hindenburg's Einmarsch in London.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1916. 205 pp.
Fictional account of a successful German invasion of England.
On cover: "von einem deutschen Dichter"; donated by Sheboygan County
Historical Research Center; paper cover is in poor condition.
Nieritz,
Gustav. Die gelbe Kutsche. / Wie
Gott mich führt, so will ich gehen. Zwei Erzählungen
für die Jugend. Neu bearbeitet. Milwaukee: Northwestern, n.d. 64
pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; inscribed Benjamin Hoppert,
Weihnachten 1910.
Rüdiger, M. Bobbis Erlebnisse und andere Erzählungen.
Lahr, Baden; New York: Kaufmann, n.d. 96 pp., col. ill.
Inscribed Willie Albrecht; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Rutherford, J. F. Joseph Franklin. Befreiung. Eine fesselnde
Beschreibung des göttlichen Planes, die besonders die Massnahman Gottes
gegen das Böse in ihrer Aufeinanderfolge hervorhebt und den schliesslichen
Sturz des Teufels und seiner ganzen bösen Weltordnung beschreibt; die Befreiung
des Volkes; die Aufrichtung der Regierung der Gerechtigkeit auf der Erde.
(Deliverance. A vivid description of the divine plan particularly outlining
God's progressive steps against evil and showing the final overthrow of the
devil and all of his wicked institutions; the deliverance of the people; and
the establishment of the righteous government on earth). Magdeburg, Deutschland;
Brooklyn, N.Y.: Internationale Bibelforscher Vereinigung; Wachtturm Bibel und
Traktat Gesellschaft, 1926. 370 pp.
Also on title page: Gesamtauflage 5000 000. J. F. Rutherford, Verfasser von
"Die Harfe Gottes"; "Trost fuer die Juden"; "Millionen
jetzt Lebender werden niemals sterben"; "Trost fuer das Volk";
usw., usw.; Auch in London, Toronto, Melbourne, Orebro, Cape Town, Bern etc.
Made in Germany; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
St. Josephs Kalender 1927. Sechszehnter Jahrgang.
St. Benedict, Oregon: Benediktiner zu Mt. Angel, Oregon, 1927. [80] pp., ill.
Partial contents: "Der amerikanische Rhein," an article on the Hudson
River; religious-themed stories from Switzerland; "Der Grossmutter Weihnacht,"
by Marga J. von Hungen, that begins, "Es war Weihnachtsabend. Die alte
Frau Berger stand mit geröteten Wangen am Herde und backte Doughnuts";
cartoons for children; "Der Flug über den Nordpol"; "Ueber
Einbürgerung," a section devoted to U.S. citizenship; and advertisments
for, among other things, the Monicke Herb Co. in Sheboygan, Wis.; a hemmorhoid
cure from the Van Bleck Co. in Jackson, Mich.; pool tables from the International
Book Company in New York City; Java Coffee Mills in Chicago; and Forni's Alpenkräuter
("...es verscheucht die Wolken der Gefahr") from Dr. Peter Fahrney
& Sons Co. in Chicago.
Donated by Susan Strang.
Schmid,
Christoph von. Das verlorene Kind. / Das
Johanniskäferchen. Zwei Erzählungen.
Lahr; New York: Kaufmann, n.d. 32 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; inscribed Carl Hoppert,
for Christmas in School 1908; illustrated cover.
Stein, Ernst, ed. S. Zickel's Deutsch-Amerikanisches Hand-Lexikon
des allgemeinen Wissens. Erster Band, A bis H.
New York: Zickel, 1875. 956 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; cover has separated
and is in two pieces; MKI owns 1st volume only.
Vergissmeinnicht. Illustrierte Zeitschrift der Mariannhiller
Mission. (Forget-Me-Not) Vol. 44, Nrs. 5-6, 8, 10, 12. Detroit, Mich.:
Mariannhill Foreign Missions, 1926.
"A catholic Mission Monthly published for the support of our Foreign Missions
in English, German and Polish."
Holdings: 44. Jahrgang, 1926: Nr. 5 (Mai), Nr. 6 (Juni), Nr. 8 (August), Nr.
10 (Oktober), and Nr. 12 (Dezember).
Donated by Susan Strang.
Voigt, Anna. Vergissmeinnicht! Ein Strauss geistlicher
Gedankenblüthen. Chicago: North American Publishing Co., 1896. 348
pp., frontispiece.
Poet is from Plymouth, Wisconsin. Poems are grouped into sections: Vaterlands-Lieder
(includes poems about both Germany and America), Feld und Wald, Herbst-Lieder,
Lenz-Lieder, Winter-Lieder, Abendgedanken, Nachtgedanken, Das Dasein Gottes,
Glaube und Zuversicht, Klage und Trost, Vergänglichkeit, Unsterblichkeit,
An den Gräbern, Im Krankheit und Heimsuchung, Auf der Reise des Lebens,
and Vermischten Inhalts.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Das walte Gott! Erzählungen, biblische Geschichten,
Gedichte und anderes. Eine Gabe für die christliche Jugend. Lahr,
Baden; New York, N.Y.: Kaufmann, n.d. 64 pp., ill.
Druck von Ensslin & Laiblin in Reutlingen; book is in poor condition; donated
by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; inscribed Willie Albrecht; illustrated
cover.
Zwei Weihnachten. Perlen. Kleine Erzählungen
für Kinder. Zweiundzwangzigste Serie, 89. Milwaukee: Brumder, n.d. 32 pp.
Missing cover; donation from Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; shelved
under series title.
Zorn, Carl Manthey. Christenfragen. Aus Gottes Wort beantwortet.
Milwaukee: Northwestern, 1914. xiv, 314 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Adams, Willi Paul. "Ethnic Politicians in Congress: German-American Congressmen
between Ethnic Group and National Government circa 1880." In German-American
Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich
and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 243-72.
Focuses on two case studies: Lorenz Brentano, Republican from Chicago, 1877-1879;
and Peter Victor Deuster, Democrat from Milwaukee, 1879-1885.
Anderson, Jennifer A. "From Westphalia to Indiana: Johann E. Schmale, the
Life of a German Immigrant." Der Blumenbaum
(Sacramento German Genealogy Society), vol. 22, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar. 2005,
pp. 125-31.
A well-documented history. Johann Ernst Schmale emigrated to America in the
summer of 1844. By 1847 he had made his way to Bear Creek, Switzerland County,
Indiana.
Balthaus, Anni. Rockne Region Germans: Immigrants from
Würges, 1846-1883 & Their Destiny in Texas. (Auswanderung nach
Texas 1846-1883: Würgeser Auswanderer und ihre Schicksale in Texas) Donald
C. Goertz, trans. Austin, TX: Metekesis Books, 2004. 166 pp., ill.
Donated by Dr. Donald C. Goertz.
Bassler, Gerhard P. "German Culture and the Inuit: The Moravian Mission
in Labrador." Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 73-97.
"Within half a century of their presence in Labrador, these Moravians had
pacified the seemingly unpacifiable region, created a written language for the
Inuit to facilitate their literacy, and introduced educational and other strategies
to enable the Inuit and their cultural identity to survive in a rapidly changing
modern world. . . . This article argues that, although operating within a framework
of German culture and transplanting many aspects of German life into the rugged
wilderness of northern Labrador, the Moravians left their mark as facilitators
of Inuit survival in the broadest sense of the word." Examines religious
origins, mission stations and settlements, Moravian life at the mission stations,
gardening, language and culture, education, music, German customs and traditions,
scientific pursuits, Moravian trade, and Inuit-Moravian contact.
Beam, C. Richard. "Pennsylvania German Lexicography: Past and Present."
Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003,
pp. 255-92.
A chronological history of Pennsylvania German dictionaries.
Beilke, Wallace. "Immigrants to Marathon/Lincoln Counties." Dat
Pommersche Blatt, no. 41, June 2004, pp. 13, 17, ill.
Brief description of how Pomeranian settlers came to Marathon and Lincoln counties
in Wisconsin.
"Book Reviews. Edited by Timothy J. Holian." Yearbook
of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 313-54.
Includes reviews of My Farm on the Mississippi: The Story
of a German in Missouri, 1945-1948, by Heinrich Hauser, translated by
Curt A. Poulton (reviewed by Tom R. Schultz); The Last
Generation Forgotten and Left to Die / Die letzte Generation vergessen and dem
Tod überlassen: The History of the Danube Swabians, by Hans Kopp
(reviewed by Robert E. Ward); Heads or Tails: The Poetics
of Money, by Jochen Hörisch (reviewed by Geoffrey Clark); Thomas
Mann's Addresses Delivered at the Library of Congress, ed. by Don Heinrich
Tolzmann (reviewed by Tom R. Schultz); Like a Sponge Thrown
into Water: Francis Lieber's European Travel Journal of 1844-1845, ed.
by Charles R. Mack and Ilona S. Mack (reviewed by Gregory H. Wolf); Deutsche
Lieder für Jung und Alt, ed. by Lisa Feurzeig (reviewed by Tom R.
Schultz); Pennsylvania German Words in Context,
2nd ed., by C. Richard Beam (reviewed by Michael T. Putnam); Dennoch!
A Biography of Pastor John Haefner, by Paul D. Ostrem (reviewed by Robert
W. Frizzell); Letters of a German American Farmer: Jürnjakob
Swehn Travels to America, by Johannes Gillhoff, translated by Richard
Lorenz August Trost (reviewed by Robert W. Frizzell); Adolf
Douai, 1819-1888: The Turbulent Life of a German Forty-Eighter in the Homeland
and in the United States, by Justine Davis Randers-Pherson (reviewed
by Katja Rampelmann); Land without Nightingales: Music
in the Making of German-America, ed. by Philip V. Bohlman and Otto Holzapfel
(reviewed by Katja Rampelmann); German-American Studies:
Selected Essays, by Don Heinrich Tolzmann (reviewed by Ryan Rumpf); The
Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America, by Julie L'Enfant (reviewed
by Timothy J. Holian); The Literary Legacy of a Poor Devil:
The Life and Work of Robert Reitzel (1849-1898), by Randall P. Donaldson
(reviewed by Jake Erhardt); Heimat: A Critical Theory of
the German Idea of Homeland, by Peter Blickle (reviewed by J. Gregory
Redding); German Heritage: Guide to the Greater Cincinnati
Area, by Don Heinrich Tolzmann (reviewed by J. Gregory Redding); Der
rothe Doktor von Chicago: Ein deutsch-amerikanisches Auswandererschicksal,
by Axel W.-O. Schmidt (reviewed by Jerry Schuchalter); New
Ulm, Minnesota: J. H. Strasser's History & Chronology, translated
and ed. by Don Heinrich Tolzmann (reviewed by Timothy J. Holian); History
of a Family Bible, 1685-2000: A Quest for the Missing Link, by William
Arnold O'Malley (reviewed by Bethany M. Usher); German-American
Urban Culture: Writers & Theaters in Early Milwaukee, by Peter C.
Merrill (reviewed by Randall P. Donaldson); Pickled Herring
and Pumpkin Pie: A Nineteenth-Century Cookbook for German Immigrants to America,
by Henriette Davidis (reviewed by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner); Goethe
im Exil: Deutsch-Amerikanische Perspektiven, ed. by Gert Sautermeister
and Frank Baron (reviewed by Gabrielle Bersier); Im Licht
der Vernunft: Der deutsch-amerikanische Freidenker-Almanach von 1878-1901,
by Katja Ramplemann (reviewed by Claudia Grossmann).
Brantley, Ruth Goos. "Researching an Emigrant's Gift of a Church Bell."
The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 30, no. 1, Dec. 2004,
pp. 10-14, ill.
Dr. Brantley provides the results of her research into the Josef Rimmelspacher
family, donors of a bell to St. Martin's Catholic Church in Forchheim, one of
three villages now forming the town of Rheinstetten in Baden, Germany. She describes
the 1881 journey of Josef Rimmelspacher and his wife Euphrosina to America,
including first-hand impressions as noted by Josef in his passport. Josef and
his wife traveled to Ottumwa, Iowa, where he worked in a brewery until 1887,
when Josef took his family west to Peola, Washington. In 1921 Josef gave his
farm to his son and moved with his wife to Lewiston, Idaho, at which time he
made his gift of a church bell to his former hometown of Forchheim. The importance
of church bells in rural German culture is also discussed.
Brinkmann, Tobias. "The Dialectics of Ethnic Identity: German Jews in Chicago,
1850-1870." In German-American Immigration and Ethnicity
in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner,
eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 44-68.
From the conclusion: "The case of Jewish immigrants in Chicago illustrates
that for Jewish immigrants in mid-nineteenth-century America the concept of
Germanness must be analyzed on several different levels. . . . The term 'German
Jews' should, therefore, be used cautiously. The case studies indicate that
'Germanness',' 'Jewishness,' and 'Americanness' were closely related."
Conzen, Kathleen Neils. "Immigrant Religion and the Public Sphere: The
German Catholic Milieu in America." In German-American
Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich
and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 69-114.
"What role did Catholicism play in shaping this significant segment of
the German immigration, and what role die Germans play in shaping American Catholicism?"
Examines "Klautches Mechel and the Haymarket Martyrs," "The Problems
of German Catholicism in America," "The German Catholic Migration
and Settlement System," "Institutional Immigration," "Mentality
and Pious Practice," "The Institutional Mileu,"and "Politics
and the Public Sphere."
Dalbello, Marija. "Franz Josef's Time Machine: Images of Modernity in the
Era of Mechanical Photoreproduction." Book History,
vol. 5, 2002, pp. 67-103, ill.
Downloaded from the Internet, Feb. 2005.
"This essay is a historical case study focusing on the formation of modernity
as expressed in print and from the point of view of the central European book
trade. It focuses on a publishing house [J. Steinbrener in Winterberg] in an
industrial region of the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century
and the beginning of the twentieth." Steinbrener "supplied a market
ranging from Manila to New York."
DeBats, Donald A. "German and Irish Political Engagement: The Politics
of Cultural Diversity in an Industrial Age." In German-American
Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich
and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 171-220, ill.
From the conclusion: "The individual political worlds of German and Irish
voters as recorded in the poll books shed considerable new light on past political
life. The poll books tell us that there were more similarities than differences
in the political engagement of members of these largest of immigrant groups.
The three case studies explored here provide little support for the notion that
the Germans and the Irish represented dramatically different accommodations
to nineteenth century mass politics in the New World. In all three cases the
Germans and the Irish participated in politics at about the same level and exhibited
in their voting behavior about the same degree of partisan unity."
Doerries, Reinhard R. "Immigrants and the Church: German Americans in Comparative
Perspective." In German-American Immigration and Ethnicity
in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner,
eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 3-17.
"The linkage of immigration and religion would appear to be an almost natural
consequence of the meaning of faith and worship for most men and women. . .
. Surely, German immigrants . . . came to America to escape their past, but
they carried with them a specific German culture and with it specific religious
persuasions."
Durnbaugh, Donald F. "The Salas: A German-American Printing Family."
Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003,
pp. 43-58.
"The German-born Jakob Sala and his two sons, Salomon and Johann (both
born in North America), were active printer-publishers in western Pennsylvania
and northeastern Ohio in the early nineteenth century. . . . Though thus far
little studied, their publishing activities were related to a wide diversity
of themes--medical advice and practice, hymnody, devotional literature, newspapers,
Fraktur certificates, innovative religious denominations, and ambitious but
basically abortive communitarian ventures."
Edwards, Lois. "Starting Points for Germanic Genealogy: Basic History of
Württemberg for Genealogy." Germanic Genealogy
Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 16-17, ill.
Fessler, Paul. "The Political and Pedagogical in Bilingual Education: Yesterday
and Today." In German-American Immigration and Ethnicity
in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner,
eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 273-91, tables.
"Few Americans realize that the first large-scale bilingual school system
in the United States began over 150 years ago. Or that it was the German language,
not Spanish, that received such special treatment in America's public schools.
. . . With a few modifications the same questions over political and educational
factors are posed in the modern debate over bilingual education. . . . Tying
these two eras of bilingual education together in a comparative historical perspective,
this paper examines the twin factors of ethnic politics and pedagogical concerns
as a factor in developing bilingual education programs in American public schools."
Gjerde, Jon. "Prescriptions and Perceptions of Labor and Family among Ethnic
Groups in the Nineteenth-Century American Middle West." In German-American
Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich
and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 117-37.
Focusing on the American Midwest, "this article considers the conversation
between ethnic groups, regarding their patterns of labor and life and the meaning
they drew from it. I argue that the conversation reveals much about underlying
conceptualizations of the family, its function, and its structure. It illustrates
how American-born individuals used the trope of the European family to depict
what [Michel] Chevalier called the 'advance' of individuality and distributions
of power in a society that was part of a 'series of that succession of progressive
movements which have characterized our civilization.' By utilizing the variations
in labor roles, proponents of this ideology could deprecate 'lesser' ethnic
groups that lagged behind in the march of civilization. In contrast, Europeans
used the labor patterns of Americans to warn against the dangers of life in
the United States, to show the need for remaining true to invented patterns
of labor among countrypeople, and ultimately to defend their group against diffusion
from the outside."
Gutmann, Myron, Sara Pullum-Pinon, Susan Gonzalez Baker, and Ingrid Burke. "German-Origin
Settlement and Agricultural Land Use in the Twentieth-Century Great Plains."
In German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative
Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison,
WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2004, pp. 138-68, tables, fig.
Examines farming in the Great Plains of the United States at the beginning and
the end of the twentieth century to ask whether the idea that German immigrants
farmed distinctively holds up under close empirical scrutiny. Also assesses
whether German farming patterns found at the beginning of the century were still
evident at century's end. Results do confirm certain expectations suggesting
that ethnicity did matter in understanding agricultural outcomes.
Helbich, Wolfgang. "German-Born Union Soldiers: Motivation, Ethnicity,
and 'Americanization'." In German-American Immigration
and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter
D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 295-325.
"How could the strong and often exuberant conviction of the superior martial
prowess of German soldiers, from generals on down, expressed by so many German
immigrants, coexist throughout the war with the negative and sometimes bitterly
scornful opinion that many American-born military men and English-language papers
held of the soldierly qualities of German immigrants of all ranks?" This
paper also addresses how some aspects of German regiments contributed to ethnic
antagonism in the military; examines differences in the motivation to volunteer
and fight between German-born and American Union soldiers; considers certain
court martial cases as indicators of ethnic relations during the Civil War;
and examines how the "Americanization" thesis holds up against the
evidence presented.
Helbich, Wolfgang, and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. German-American
Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Madison, WI: Max
Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2004. xxii, 356 pp., ill.
Papers originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr.
1997. Contents: Immigrants and the Church: German-Americans in Comparative Perspective
/ Reinhard R. Doerries -- Community Versus Separation: A Northwest German Emigrant
Settlement Region in Nineteenth-Century Ohio / Anne [Aengenvoort] Höndgen
-- The Dialectics of Ethnic Identity: German Jews in Chicago, 1850-1870 / Tobias
Brinkmann -- Immigrant Religion and the Public Sphere: The German Catholic Milieu
in America / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Prescriptions and Perceptions of Labor
and Family among Ethnic Groups in the Nineteenth-Century American Middle West
/ Jon Gjerde -- German-Origin Settlement and Agricultural Land Use in the Twentieth-Century
Great Plains / Myron Gutmann, Sara Pullum-Pinon, Susan Gonzalez Baker, Ingrid
Burke -- German and Irish Political Engagement: The Politics of Cultural Diversity
in an Industrial Age / Donald DeBats -- German and Irish Big City Mayors: Comparative
Perspective on Ethnic Politics / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- Ethnic Politicians
in Congress: German-American Congressmen between Ethnic Group and National Government
circa 1880 / Willi Paul Adams -- The Political and Pedagogical in Bilingual
Education: Yesterday and Today / Paul Fessler -- German-Born Union Soldiers:
Motivation, Ethnicity, and "Americanization" / Wolfgang Helbich --
Reviving Ethnic Identity: The Foreign Office, the Reichswehr, and German Americans
during the Weimar Republic / Michael Wala.
Hertel, Christiane. "The Nineteenth-Century Schiller Cult: Centennials,
Monuments, and Tableaux Vivants." Yearbook
of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 155-204, ill.
Examines the Schiller cult in several German and German-American urban communities,
particularly Hamburg, New York , Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Cleveland.
Discusses statuary, monuments, poetry competitions, and ceremonies. Also describes
the waning of the Schiller cult in the early twentieth century.
Hoendgen, Anne Aengenvoort. "Community Versus Separation: A Northwest
German Emigrant Settlement Region in Nineteenth-Century Ohio." In German-American
Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich
and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 18-43.
"Research on nineteenth-century German immigrant groups in rural Ohio .
. . suggests that community formation and acculturation among these immigrants
were profoundly shaped by internal differences in creed and regional origin,
and by the group solidarities and group boundaries that arose from these differences."
Holian, Timothy J. "Des Arbeiters Stärke:
German-American Brewery Owner-Worker Relations, 1860-1920." Yearbook
of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 205-20.
"The interrelationship of German-American brewery magnates and their workers
illustrates the complicated evolution process of the Industrial Revolution,
from their initial standing as friendly colleagues of a common ethnic background
to that of bitter adversaries, separated by a wide gulf of conflicting interests
and their respective economic status as haves and have-nots, and finally to
a state of relative harmony based on the successful development of trade unions
and the need to negotiate on matters of mutual concern."
Hoyt, Giles R. "Herman Zagel's Jack Roostand:
A German-American View of Prairie Life." Yearbook
of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 113-18.
"The present relatively brief article desires to give some insights into
an American author, Herman Zagel, who wrote in German about life on the American
frontier in the late nineteenth century. . . . Zagel is an American author who
treats American life, not just German-American life in German. Zagel's novels,
short stories and travel essays have never been translated." Focuses upon
Zagel's two novels about the life of a young minister, Jack Roostand, who serves
German-speaking communities. Among other topics within the novels, Hoyt points
out that "many of the Germans [who speak different dialects] cannot understand
each other, which tends to exacerbate tense situations. There is frequently
conflict in the congregation often caused by language problems."
Kamphoefner, Walter D. "German and Irish Big City Mayors: Comparative Perspective
on Ethnic Politics." In German-American Immigration
and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter
D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 221-42, tables.
From the conclusion: "[S]o far as the office of mayor n American big cities
is concerned, German immigrants and ethnics came off better then Irish Catholics
in the fist generation, and only slightly worse thereafter. Their electoral
chances were greatly improved in cities where Germans made up a large share
of the population—an indication that ethnic politics and identity did
come into play, just as with the Irish. . . . But if one looks at policy outputs,
particularly in the realm of cultural issues such as education, language, and
alcohol, German Americans were able to wield a considerable amount of influence
in urban politics, particularly during the era up to World War I."
———. "German Texans: In the Mainstream or Backwaters
of Lone Star Society?" Yearbook of German-American
Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 119-38, map.
Examines "the political integration of Texas Germans, the degrees to which
they stood apart from Anglo-Texans both in the Civil War era and later[;] .
. . the economic integration of this group, and how they stacked up against
their Anglo neighbors in terms of occupation and wealth[;] . . . [and] language
and culture, the survival of the German tongue and institutions such as school
and the press which sustained it."
Keel, William D. "A German-American Cultural Icon: O,
du schöne Schnitzelbank!" Yearbook of
German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 221-53, ill.
Examines the variations on the song.
Keyser, Alan G. "Gardens and Gardening among the Pennsylvania Germans."
Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies,
vol. 11, no. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 15-[24], ill.
"The Pennsylvania German garden under consideration here is not the elaborate
pleasure garden so often described in histories of gardening, but the farm kitchen
garden containing vegetables, culinary herbs, flowers and medicinal plants."
Discusses fencing the garden and whitewashing the fence; garden layout and tilling;
"planting by the signs"; "the planting and care of onions";
"peas, cucumbers, and grapes"; "the growing of hops"; plants
associated with a typical garden; weeding and watering techniques; "burying
vegetables for winter use"; seed production; and "scarecrows and other
deterrents."
Merrill, Peter C. "Feodor von Luerzer: The American Odyssey of an Austrian
Immigrant Artist." Kansas Quarterly, vol. 25,
no. 2, 1993, pp. [69-76].
Focuses on the life of Feodor von Luerzer, an Austrian-born landscape painter
who immigrated to the United States in 1886. He worked chiefly in Milwaukee
and Cleveland before settling in Duluth. Late in his career he spent a year
in California and the last four years of his life he lived in Spokane, Washington,
and nearby Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. This article seeks to bring together what is
known about von Luerzer and his work.
Minert, Roger P. "Professional Family History Researchers and Their Clients:
Working Together for the Common Good." The Palatine
Immigrant, vol. 30, no. 1, Dec. 2004, pp. 3-9.
Based on extensive experience as a professional Germanic family history researcher,
Dr. Minert discusses how to locate and evaluate professional researchers, as
well as what he considers to be the basic characteristics of a healthy client-researcher
relationship.
Rippley, La Vern J. "Monumentality: How Post-1871 Germans in the United
States Expressed Their Ethnicity." Yearbook of German-American
Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 139-53.
"Examines the ideological mindset that resulted from the German victory
over the French at Sedan in September 1870. . . . The stunning success of the
victory. . .and the founding of the German Empire in January 1871 caused Germans
everywhere to exude a deeply felt pride in nationhood, exuberance for chauvinistic
myths, fervor for Fatherland-based symbols, and jingoistic enthusiasm for mementos,
monuments, mausoleums and megaliths. . . . Our focus in this essay is concentrated
in but not restricted to, the Midwest, meaning the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa, and Missouri, and to a lesser extent Ohio and Indiana."
Roba, William. "Forgotten German-Iowan Alternatives." Yearbook
of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 99-111, ill.
Biographical sketch of Emil Geisler (1828-1910), who "was regionally influential
in the Upper Mississippi River Valley as a strong supporter of education, promoter
of a powerful myth of ethnicity, and successful businessman." He was born
in Lunden in the Duchy of Holstein and migrated to America in 1852, settling
in Davenport, Iowa. Includes a poem from Geisler's 1902 collection of poetry.
Schelbert, Leo. "The Reactivated Swiss American Historical Society at Forty:
A Retrospective." Yearbook of German-American Studies,
vol. 38, 2003, pp. 293-305.
Schweitzer, Christoph E. "Goethe's Werther
and the First American Novel, William Hill Brown's The
Power of Sympathy." Yearbook of German-American
Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 21-28.
"It is obvious that William Hill Brown (1765-93) knew Goethe's Die
Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) when he wrote what is considered to
be the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or,
The Triumph of Nature (1789)."
"Shocking to the Natives: The 'Continental Sunday'." Der
Blumenbau (Sacramento German Genealogy Society), vol. 22, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar.
2005, pp. 132-33, ill.
Includes quotes from two articles published in 1873 and 1896 that disdain the
less-than-somber Sunday practices of German-Americans. Lists food and drink
available at a typical Biergarten.
"Thoughts on Selecting a Professional Researcher to Work For You."
Der Blumenbaum (Sacramento German Genealogy Society
), vol. 22, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar. 2005, pp. 139.
Questions for anyone considering hiring a professional researcher to search
one's German ancestry.
Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. "Exploring Eighteenth Century German-Americana
with the Tools of the Twenty-First Century." Yearbook
of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 59-71, ill.
Examines electronic delivery of German-American texts through the Evans Digital
Edition, an ongoing project to digitize all American imprints from the 17th
and 18th centuries. Includes sample title pages.
———. "Thirty-Five Years of the Society for German-American
Studies: A Chronology, 1968-2003." Yearbook of German-American
Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 1-20, ill.
Turbes, Donna Hollerung. "A Guide to Resources of Württemberg."
Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, Winter
2004, pp. 5-10, ill.
Describes resources specific to Württemberg, including U.S. immigration
records, gazetteers and maps, the Family History Library Web site, research
guides, church and civil records, emigration and immigration resources, compiled
genealogies (the works of Max Cramer, Deutsche Geschlechterbücher,
and the Faber Collection), materials related to history and geography, village
genealogies, periodicals, and internet sources.
Wala, Michael. "Reviving Ethnic Identity: Foreign Office, Reichswehr, and
German Americans during the Weimar Republic." In German-American
Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich
and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 326-42.
After World War I, efforts were initiated by the German Culture Department and
Reichswehr to cultivate the German-American community
and help foster a generally positive attitude toward postwar Germany. "Outright
support for Weimar Germany could be expected only after German Americans had
regained their self-respect. This should not be promoted by propaganda, but
rather by more subtle attempts to rekindle their pride in their ancestry."
Efforts included academic and other exchange programs, and support for and visits
to German-American organizations, with special success being reported in cases
where Reichsmarine vessels made calls at U.S. ports
during the 1920s and early 1930s.
Windholtz, Oren. "The Bukovina Society of the Americas." German-American
Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 2005, pp. 4-6, ill.
From 1775 to 1918, Bukovina was the easternmost province of the Austrian Empire.
It was partitioned by Romania and Ukraine in the wake of World War II. This
article provides a history of Bukovina and of immigration of Bukovina Germans
to the United States, Canada, and Brazil. Also provides details on the foundation
and activities of the Bukovina Society, located in Ellis, Kansas.
Zamzow, Don. "Verein Celebrates 20 Years." Dat
Pommersche Blatt, no. 43, Jan. 2005, pp. 1-5, ill.
Includes a timeline showing events of the Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin
from June 1993 to October 2004.
Zamzow, Gladys, and DuWayne Zamzow. "The Little Red School House: Maple
Grove School." Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 43,
Jan. 2005, pp. 12, 16, ill.
On September 26, 1870, a group of settlers met in Hamburg, Wisconsin, at the
home of Joachim Nieman to discuss the building of a school house that would
also serve as a church for visits by the traveling pastor. Describes construction,
early classes, and rules governing teachers.
Ritsche, Marita E. Cross Currents: In the Wake of the
Great War. Milwaukee, WI: Transfluency Press, 2005. 243 pp., ill.
Combining a readable narrative style with historical fact, this novel follows
the experiences of a closely-knit family as its two youngest sons leave post-World
War I Meersburg am Bodensee for America. Written in English but sprinkled with
German phrases, the tale reveals motivations for leaving the homeland, recounts
adventures on the Atlantic crossing, and details the confusion and surprises
encountered as the travelers arrive in America and head for Minnesota.
Donated by Marita Ritsche, 2005.
Hillern, Wilhelmine von. Höher als die Kirche.
With notes, exercises, and vocabulary by J. B. E. Jonas. Boston and Chicago:
Allyn and Bacon, 1901. vii, 55 pp.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
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