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Am häuslichen Herd. Ein Jahrbuch der Illustrierten Jugendblätter. Erzählungen, Schilderungen und Skizzen aus der Natur und dem Leben nebst Rätseln und Spielen. Reading, Pa.: Pilger-Buchhandlung, 1892. 144 pp., ill.
Donated by Prof. David Gosdeck, Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minn.
Das Büchlein vom Lieben Heilande. Das Leben Jesu in 30 Bildern, Sprüchen und Versen. Reading, Pa.: Pilger Buchhandlung, n.d. 28 pp., ill.
Inscribed on cover, “Emma Buchholz.”
Folget Ihm nach. Ein biblisches Bilderbüchlein mit Erzählungen für die Jugend. Chicago, Ill.: Wartburg Publishing House, n.d. 16 pp., ill (some col.). Inscribed on back cover: Marshall Freitag.
Collection of religious poetry and stories for children, mostly unattributed. Some names that appear as authors: Jul. Sturm, Gerok, and Armin Stein.
Boppe, C. Hermann. Der Staat und seine Widersacher. Milwaukee, Wis.: Druck und Verlag der Freidenker Publishing Co., n.d. [189?]. 19 pp.
On cover: Preis 10 Cents. — Label: Library of the University of Wisconsin, bequest of George B. Wild, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1870-1941, in memory of his brother Robert Wild ’97, 1875-1928.
Anarchist essay.
Donated by Prof. Lester Seifert.
Deiler, J. Hanno. Rede gegen den McKinley Tarif und das Zwangsgesetz. Behalten am 3. Nov. 1892 in der demokratischen Ratifikations-Massenversammlung am Markt in Carrollton (7. Dist. von New Orleans, La.). 8 pp.
Deiler was born August 8, 1849 in Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, where he received his musical training. In 1871 he accepted a position in New Orleans as principal of St. Boniface German Catholic School, arriving early in 1872 and later that year married Wilhelmina Saganowski. In 1879 he became professor of German at the University of Louisiana, which later became Tulane University. He was elected president of the North American Singers’ Union, first in 1896 and then again in 1903. He was president of the New Orleans German Gazette Publishing Company, and contributed to numerous German and American periodicals. His research interests focused on the history of Germans in the United States, especially in Louisiana, publishing numerous articles on the subject, as well as one book, The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent (Philadelphia, 1909). In 1898 the German Emperor recognized Deiler’s literary achievements and his services to the German people in the U.S. by conferring upon him knighthood in the Order of the Crown. Deiler died at his summer home in Covington, Louisiana on July 20, 1909.
Gräbner, Theodor. Eine kurze Geschichte der Augsburgischen Konfession. Dem jungen Volk erzählt. (Story of the Augsburg Confession). St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia Publishing House, 1930. 48 pp., ill.
On title page: Theodor Gräbner, Concordia-Seminar, St. Louis, Mo. Übersetzt von O. R. Hüschen. — Page 41: Anweisung zum besseren Studium der Geschichte der Augsburgischen Konfession. In Fragen gestellt von M. J. Raschke. — From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Theodor Conrad Graebner, born Nov. 23, 1876 in Watertown, Missouri, died Nov 14, 1950 in St. Louis. Graduated from Concordia College in St. Louis in 1897. D.D. degree from university in Adelaide, Australia in 1930. Ordained Lutheran pastor in Red Wing, Minnessota on May 25, 1902. Taught at Walther College (St. Louis) in 1897 and Lutheran Ladies Seminary (Red Wing, Minn.) in 1900. Pastor in Jonesburg, Mo. (1906+ and Chicago. Prof. at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis 1913 on. Retired in 1948. Edited Lutheran Herald (1909-1913), Der Lutheraner (1913-1917), The Lutheran Witness (1914-1949). Member of Philadelphia Society of Great Britain and Victoria Institute in London. Author of numerous books and articles in German and English.
Hattstädt, Otto F. Geschichte des Süd-Wisconsin-Distrikts der Ev.-Luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten. Der in Watertown von 22. bis zum Juni 1927 und in Janesville vom 25. bis zum 29. Juni 1928 versammelten Synode des Süd-Wisconsin-Distrikts vorgelegt und auf deren Beschluss dem Druck übergeben. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia Publishing House, [1928]. 88 pp.
Contents: Einleitende Bemerkungen. Wisconsin als eine Heimstätte des Luthertums ein Beweis für Gottes Walten zum Heil seiner Kirche — Das deutsche Einwanderung — Die deutsch-lutherische Einwanderung — Unsere kirchliche Tätigkeit in Süd-Wisconsin. Der Anfang — Zuwachs an Pastoren und Gemeinden bis zum Jahre 1873 — Die Pionierarbeit unserer alten Pastoren — Lehre und Praxis von Anfang an — Wachstum der Gemeinden — Die Synodalversammlungen und die auf ihnen gepflogene Lehrverhandlungen — Die Pastoralkonferenzen — Das Werk der Inneren Mission in unserm Distrikt vom Jahre 1873 an — Unser Verhältnis zu andern lutherischen Synoden. Unser Verhältnis zur Wisconsinsynode — Unser Verhältnis zur Iowasynode — Unser Verhältnis zum Merger — Unsere englische Arbeit — Unser Gemeindeschulwesen — Das Höhere Schulwesen — Die besonderen Missionswerke innerhalb des Distrikts — Die Stadt- oder Anstaltsmission in Milwaukee — Die Studentenmission in Madison — Die Kinderfreundgesellschaft — Die Anstalt für Schwachsinnige und Epileptische in Watertown — Die Diakonissenschule in Watertown — Das lutherische Altenheim in Wauwatosa — Die beiden Waltherliga-Hospize in Milwaukee — Schlussbemerkungen. Rückblick auf die Vergangenheit — Überblick über die Gegenwart — Ausblick auf die Zukunft.
Donated by Goethe House Wisconsin.
Katzer, Friedrich. Der Kampf der Gegenwart, ein dramatischer Versuch in 5 Akten. Milwaukee, Wis.: P. V. Deuster, 1873. 194 pp.
On title page: Friedrich Katzer, Professor im Salesianum bei Milwaukee, Wisconsin. — (Zum Besten des Lehrerseminars.) — Druck von P. V. Deuster, Herausgeber des “Milwaukeer Seebote.”— Katzer was born in 1844 in Ebensee, Austria, and studied with Jesuits there. He came to Minnesota as an Indian missionary in 1864, but soon went to the Silesianum in Milwaukee, where he taught mathematics. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1866; in 1886 he was appointed bishop of Green Bay, and in 1891 was appointed the third bishop of the Milwaukee archdiocese.
An allegorical drama addressing social issues.
Donated by Goethe House Wisconsin.
“Braucherei in the Urglaawe Context. Part 2b: What Distinguishes Urglaawe from Other Heathen Paths?” Hollerbeer Haven, Journal of Urglaawe, Braucherei, and Deitsch Wisdom, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 1-7.
Available online as PDF at: http://urglaawe.blogspot.com/.
Seeks to explain the fundaments of Urglaawe as they arise from the Eddaic creation myths.
Bosshard-Kälin, Susann, and Leo Schelbert. Emigrant Paths: Encounters with 20th Century Swiss Americans. [Washington, D.C.]: Swiss American Historical Society, 2013. v, 401 pp., ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-394) and index.
Contents: pt. 1. Interview portraits / Susann Bosshard-Kälin. Philipp Gelzer (1927) — Donald Tritt (1931) ; Heinz Bachmann (1936) — Jürg Padrutt (1936) — Albert Zeller (1939) — Franz J. Portmann (1940) — Stefan Kälin (1942) — Ruedi Bear (1944) — Hans Lenzlinger (1947). — Pt. 2. Autobiographical portraits / edited by Leo Schelbert. Jakob Kaser (1868-1948) — Albert Daub (1899-1991) — Paul Grossenbacher (1904-1990) — Fred Anderegg (1908-2001) — Maurice Perret (1911-1996) — Gustav Durrer (1911-2001) — Walter Angst (1919-1999) — Seven twentieth century Swiss American men in contrasting worlds / Leo Schelbert — Bibliographies: Donald Tritt — Fred Anderegg — Maurice Perret — Walter Angst.
Donated by the Swiss American Historical Society.
Dawley, Richard Lee. Amish in Wisconsin: An Anecdotal Journey. New Berlin, Wis.: Amish Insight, 2003. 314 pp., ill.
Includes bibliographical references (pp. 299-312). — Signed by the author.
Donated by Pamela Tesch.
——–. Amish & Mennonite Snowbirds. New Berlin, Wis.: Amish Insight, [2008?]. 216 pp., ill.
Includes bibliographical references (pp. 208-209). — Signed by the author.
F irst-hand observations by author about the Amish and Mennonites in Pinecraft, Fla.
Donated by Pamela Tesch.
Edelmann, Helmut. Der Geschichte ein Gesicht geben. Amerikabuch 2009. Auf den Spuren der 500 verloren geglaubten “Patoren für Amerika” und ihrer Familien. Husum, Germany: Matthiesen Verlag, 2010. 191 pp., ill.
Also on title page: Historisch-systematische Untersuchung im Auftrag der Nordelbischen Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche, an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, im Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie/Institut für Systematische Theologie – Arbeitsstelle Amerikastudien. Erlebnisorientiertes Sachbuch.
From 1882 to 1931 more than 500 pastors came to North America from two small German villages. Helmut Edelmann, representing the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in the District of Husum/Nordsee, seeks to discover what happened to this unusually large amount of pastors who left Breklum and Kropp, and how they impacted the Lutheran churches in the U.S. and Canada.
Donated by Dr. Helmut Edelmann.
——–. Der Geschichte ein Gesicht geben. Amerikabuch 2010. Auf den Spuren der 500 verloren geglaubten “Patoren für Amerika” und ihrer Familien. Husum, Germany: Matthiesen Verlag, 2012. 336 pp., ill.
Also on title page: Historisch-systematische Untersuchung im Auftrag der Nordelbischen Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche, an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, im Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie/Institut für Systematische Theologie – Arbeitsstelle Amerikastudien. Erlebnisorientiertes Sachbuch.
From 1882 to 1931 more than 500 pastors came to North America from two small German villages. Helmut Edelmann, representing the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in the District of Husum/Nordsee, seeks to discover what happened to this unusually large amount of pastors who left Breklum and Kropp, and how they impacted the Lutheran churches in the U.S. and Canada. This second volume in a proposed trilogy focuses on the ethnic German colonization of Texas with regard to the formation of the Lutheran Church in America. Also touches on the Lutheran Church in Philadelpha, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Oakland, California.
Donated by Dr. Helmut Edelmann.
Efford, Alison Clark. German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. x, 267 pp.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index.
Contents: Introduction: Naturalized Citizens, Transnational Perspectives, and the Arc of Reconstruction — The German Language of American Citizenship — The “Freedom-Loving German,” 1854-1860 — Black Suffrage as a German Cause in Missouri, 1865 — Principle Rising, 1865-1869 — Wendepunkt: The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 — The Liberal Republican Transition, 1870-1872 — Class, Culture, and the Decline of Reconstruction, 1870-1876 — Epilogue: The Great Strike of 1877 — Appendix: Voting Tables.
Donated by Prof. Cora Lee Kluge.
Manning, Mary J. “The Plight of German Americans Before and During World War I.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer 2013, pp. 16-27, ill.
Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Reports on anti-German sentiment in the United States before and during the First World War, and tells the story of Otto Edwin Radke, a third generation German American born in Barrington, Illinois, who enlisted in the 132nd Infantry, Illinois National Guard, in 1917. Otto, along with his cousin Harry, died on October 11, 1918, during the Meusse-Argonne Offensive.
Manz, Stefan. “Nationalism Gone Global: The Hauptverband Deutscher Flottenvereine im Auslande 1898-1919.” German History, vol. 30, no. 2, June 2012, pp. 199-221.
The Wilhelmine battle fleet was a powerful symbol of national strength and unity not only within the Reich but also in German ethnic communities abroad. A global network of 179 navy clubs with 9,500 members (1913) was coordinated by the Berlin-based Central League for German Navy Clubs Abroad (Hauptverband Deutscher Flottenvereine im Auslande). Its aims were the collection of migrants’ money for concrete navy projects and the promotion of allegiance to the Reich and of ethnic cohesion abroad. This article analyses German navy campaigning within a transnational framework and supports the view that migrants were discursively drawn into Imperial Germany’s global aspirations as outposts of “Germanness” abroad.
Donated by Stefan Manz.
Peter, Karl A. The Dynamics of Hutterite Society: An Analytical Approach. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1987. xxiii, 232 pp.
Includes bibliographical notes and references.
The author examines the Hutterites as an ongoing sociocultural entity constantly adapting to environmental, political, and social circumstances rather than as a static society. Topics include “Religion and History,” Social Relations and Social Structures,” “Demographic Dynamics,” “Contemporary Social Changes,” and Ethnic Relations.”
Donated by Bob Meier.
Spiekermann, Uwe. “Marketing Milwaukee: Schlitz and the Making of a National Beer Brand, 1880-1940.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 53, Fall 2013, pp. 56-67, ill.
Examines how the marketing strategies of the Schlitz Brewing Company both before, during, and after the Prohibition era.
Text for Exhibit of Materials Relating to Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 32 pp.
Includes mention of German-Americana items, such as a Brumder cookbook from the Mortimer Levitan collection, a copy of Onkel Toms Huette, a book from the Ellis Collection of German textbooks, a yearbook purchased from the “Germanic Seminary Library Fund, a gift from German Americans of Milwaukee 1899,” a publication of the Hilfsverein Deutscher Frauen of New York (part of the World War I collection), and a gift of Hugh Iltis, Professor Emeritus of Botany at UW-Madison, and son of Hugo Iltis.
Tritt, Donald, Amanda Crowley, and Jenna Settles. “Bibliography of the Donald G. Tritt Swiss Library.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 49, no. 3, Nov. 2013, pp. [1]-94.
The Donald G. Tritt Library for Swiss-American Studies is a non-circulating collection of more than 10,000 volumes, pamphlets, videos, prints, maps, and manuscripts housed at The Swiss Center of North America located in New Glarus, Wisconsin.
Weiskopp, Thomas. “Prohibition in the United States: The German-American Experience, 1919-1933.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 53, Fall 2013, pp. 31-53, ill.
Thomas Weiskopp, University of Bielefeld.
“The Prohibition movement . . . ostracized the [German Americans] precisely on account of their ‘Germanness’ . . . . Prohibition wiped out the beer-garden culture and paved the way for cheap speakeasies that were worse than the most degenerate saloons. Although the role of brewers of German descent in the self-inflicted saloon crises was considerable and their attempts to defend themselves were clumsy and self-defeating, they sustained severe financial loses when the beer trade became illegal, driving some brewery owners to the brink of illegality. Quite unexpectedly, in the wake of Prohibition both prominent and ordinary German Americans discovered that their best option for preserving a sense of ethnic community was to maintain a low profile built around small, private circles rather than the web of civic institutions and large-scale public leisure that had flourished only thirty years earlier.”
No materials donated to this collection at this time.
Sudermann, Hermann. Fritzchen: Drama in One Act. Edited for class-room use, with introduction and vocabulary, by George M. Priest. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1929. vii, 81 pp.
On title page: George M. Priest, Ph.D. Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature in Princeton University. Donated by Prof. David M. Gosdeck, Martin Luther College Library, New Ulm, Minn.