VOLUME 12 NUMBER 4
-- "German glass ornaments in America," by Robert Brenner: Christmas / Image: A family around a feather tree
-- "A look at Christmas in the German-American home," by Kevin Kurdylo: Die Deutsche Hausfrau, a monthly journal marketed to “die Frauenwelt Amerikas” / December 1914 and 1917 issues / Be your own dentist and cure your toothache with Dr. Feigenson's / First World War
-- "MKI part of a three-year project to digitize rare recordings of American dialects, languages," by Kevin Kurdylo: The Max Kade Institute (MKI), in partnership with the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC), The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), and the University of Wisconsin Libraries, has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to undertake a three-year project aimed at digitizing, interpreting, and making accessible important fieldwork audio collections capturing a variety of American languages and dialects
-- "Reliving the past: Notes on Sternberger project," by Kristen L. Reifsnyder: Jakob Sternberger, Franziska Sternberger, Kaaden, Bohemia, 1848 revolutions, letters, handwritten, immigrants, German, Wisconsin, Paul von Schwarzenfeld, Native Americans
-- [Speaking of Language] "Teaching German and English in Early America," by Mark L. Louden: Foreign languages, teaching methods / German-speaking Americans / Christian Becker / Der allgegenwärtige Deutsche Sprachlehrer des Wortes Gottes (1808) / Bilingualism and biliteracy / familiar dialogues, English and German
-- [Friends Profile] "A lifetime of involvement with German," by Nicole Saylor: Jo Ann Tiedemann / Concordia Language Villages / Peter Uiberall
-- "German migration was pursuit of happiness," by Kevin Kurdylo: Dr. Wolfgang Grams / immigrant letters / Johann Heinrich zur Oeveste, who left Osnabrück in 1834 and settled in Indiana / taverns often served as initial “travel agents” for those desiring to emigrate
-- "Martinson digitizing hours of dialect tapes," by Eric Platt: Kirk Martinson, North American German Dialect Archive
-- [Book Review] "On the trail of Pennsylvania German words," by Mark L. Louden: Prof. C. Richard Beam / Pennsylvania Dutch / Pennsylvania German / Des is wie mer’s saagt in Deitsch, (2002) / Pennsylvania German Words in Context
-- "Dr. Schmahl explores immigrant biographies," by Antje Petty: Dr. Helmut Schmahl / Mug books were commercially produced, glossy coffee table books that recounted the stories of mostly Midwestern communities / Mrs. Jacob Kessel in Portraits and Biographical Record of Sheboygan County (Chicago: Exelsior Publishing Co., 1894)
Winter 2003 Newsletter
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