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Book Review: Bern, Kansas. Memories Of The First 100 Years, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In text and pictures this nicely produced book presents "an account of some of the events that helped shape the Bern community during its first 100 years" (iv). On the basis of newspaper accounts, interviews, and pictorial treasures hidden in attics or scrapbooks, the author has summarized events in twelve chronologically arranged chapters that consist of vignettes and provide a mosaic-like overview. Except for chapter one featuring "Days of Pioneers (1842-1884)," each section covers a decade identified by some major event as, for instance, "The World War II Era (1940-1949)". General contexts are considered; the last chapter thus opens with …

Book Review: Notes In Brief

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Includes Notes in Brief for the following titles:

• Turning Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550
• A Castor Family in America, or: The Descendants of Hans Georg Gerster/John George Castor
• Schwester Gertrud Leupi, 1825-1904
• Fur Trade Letters of Francis Ermatinger, written to his brother Edward during his service with the Hudson Bay Company 1818-1853
• "Schweizerische Uberseeauswanderungen 1816- 1913. Ein quantitativer Ansatz
• "People of Choice: Decision Making in an Eighteenth Century Swiss-German Peasant Family"
• "'One's Own Hearth is Like Gold': A History of Helvetia, West Virginia"

Congratulatory Note, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

On January 5, 1988, Arthur Davis Hasler, Professor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will celebrate his eightieth birthday. The Swiss American Historical Society is honored to add its congratulations and best wishes to the many he will receive on that occasion not only from family, friends, and scholars in the United States, but also from distinguished scientists and admirers abroad.

Book Review: The History Of The Imperial Valley Swiss, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

"The most unlikely place in the world you might expect to find a Swiss colony is below sea level in a flat, hot, dry desert such as the Imperial Valley in Southern California," this book's editors rightly observe (v). The region, located a good 110 miles east of San Diego, is a large section of the Colorado desert and its center, the Salton Sea, lies 235 feet below sea level. The climate is hot and ranges from 130 degrees to 20 degrees. At flood stage the water of the Colorado River would pour into the region. "As the water dried, …

Book Review: Alma On The Mississippi 1848-1932, Ernest Menolfi

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In 1848 two settlers from Switzerland, Victor Probst and John Waecker, on their way upstream from Galena, Illinois, arrived at a site then called Three Mile Bluff, on the Mississippi in Western Wisconsin. They decided to stay, and soon made a living by cutting firewood for the steamboats. In subsequent years other Swiss immigrants were to follow, principally from the Grisons and the Canton of Berne, but also from the native village of one of the first settlers, namely Biberist in the Canton of Solothurn. So the early census lists contain numerous familiar Swoss names like Berni, Ganz, Marti, Neukomm, …

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The Evolution Of A Scholar And His School Of Research: "The Wisconsin Limnology Community - The Hasler Period", Frank N. Egerton

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Arthur D. Hasler was born at Lehi, Utah, on January 5, 1908. No one who knows him doubts his own strong conviction that his pioneering Mormon background provided him with ethical and intellectual values that contributed substantially to his successful career. His boyhood interests were in fishing, raising livestock, camping, nature study, and the Boy Scouts. These interests did not lead him inevitably into limnology, however. While an undergraduate at Brigham Young University he seriously considered following his father's example in becoming a physician and was only deflected from that by the financial constraints of the Depression and an ill …

From Switzerland To Utah: Arthur D. Hasler's Grandparents

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The autobiographies of Louise Thalmann Hasler and Johannes Hasler from their grandson, Arthur D. Hasler, a professor at the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin. Also included is a note on John Hasler from Henry A. Dean regarding Hasler's activities in Sanpete County as the music instructor and director of the Manti Tabernacle Choir.

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Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This Newsletter is devoted to reviews of recent titles that are of Swiss American interest. Various SAHS members - among them Emile-Henri Bovay, Rudolf Ganz, Erdmann Schmocker, and especially Ruth Jewett - have brought various titles to the editor's attention which is gratefully acknowledged. He invites others to follow their example. He also thanks the contributors to this issue, especially Dr. Ernest Menolfi of the Holbein Gymnasium in Basel, Switzerland, for their valuable contributions.

Book Review: History Of Switzerland. The First Hundred Thousand Years: Before The Beginnings To The Days Of The Present, Lukas Burckhardt, Ernest Menolfi

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Includes two sections:

1. Homage to a fervent friend of Switzerland, J. Murray Luck

In my job as Swiss cultural attache in the United States I had the chance to get help and inspiration- from Americans who were in love with our country and who acted as our good will ambassadors. Quite sincerely aware of our own shortcomings, I had some difficulties in understanding their unswerving belief in our exemplary qualities. Finally, I had to admit that there must be a deeper reason behind this strange phenomenon. Maybe we really have, as a sober small state, a political mission in …

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Book Review: Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This collection of papers given at a London symposium in March 1984 is in several respects a supplementary companion to H. M. Waidson's Anthology of Modern Swiss Literature (1984). They have the same cover picture - showing the distribution of the four national languages in Switzerland - and together they convey a rather comprehensive idea of what current Swiss literature is. Whereas Waidson's display of the literary production of the last decades is to some extent a neutral view from a distance, this collection of essays adds some more Swiss points of view, mentions further authors, and is by nature …

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Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This SAHS Newsletter is devoted to Hans and Christa Lang, longstanding members of the SAHS and, through their professional pursuits, deeply involved with the past and present pre-white world of the United States.

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The Publications Of Hans Lang

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The publications of Hans Lang from 1969 through 1985 including both books and articles.

The American Indian Museum Of The City Of Zurich, Or: From The Everyday Life Of Two Museum Curators, Hans Lang

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Since his retirement from the Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich in 1984, Hans Lang has devoted all his time to the American Indian Museum of the City of Zurich, the only such institution in Western Europe. It grew out of the initiative and the tireless collecting efforts of Gottfried and Martha Hotz. Already in his early youth, reading had awakened in G. Hotz a lively interest in the indigenous peoples of North America. When he was only sixteen, he purchased the first item, a simple knife, for his today widely known collection. Later he invested every penny he …

On The Trail Of Swiss Painters Among American Indians, Hans Lang

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The discovery of America by Europeans opened a new field of interest for numerous European artists occupying themselves with the new continent and its native population. Some even set out with pencil and paint brush to portray on the spot that queer and picturesque world, not the least outstanding of them being Swiss.

Der Lndianer In Der Europaischen Musik - Ausgewahlte Beispiele, Hans Lang

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The great event of the discovery of the New World with its strange, exotic peoples was reflected not only in European literature and art, but also in all areas of music. Especially in the field of music, there are still a number of unexplained phenomena in this context, such as the chaconne, which appeared in Spain soon after the discovery of America. In 1517, the Spanish poet Torres Naharro first mentioned the "chacona" as a peasant dance song. We still don't know how this dance developed or where it came from, but even then, its possible American (Mexican) origins were …

The Unusual American Career Of The Swiss Politician Emily Frey (1838-1922), Hans R. Guggisberg

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The title of this paper may arouse the expectation that we will concern ourselves mainly with a number of adventurous anecdotes from the biography of a prominent Swiss politician of the late 19th and early 20th century. I do not want to disappoint such expectations altogether. I shall indeed relate several episodes from Emil Frey's life which appear to be worth relating because they are not only quite unusual but - at least to my knowledge - also very little known. Frey's biography is linked to the history of Switzerland and Basel on the one hand, and quite particularly to …

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Book Review: Land, Piety, Peoplehood: The Establishment Of Mennonite Communities In America, 1683-1790, Delbert L. Gratz

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Letter From The Editors, Leo Schelbert, Heinz Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The second newsletter of this year consists of a substantial scholarly article on the American career of the Basel politician Emil Frey by our esteemed advisory board member Hans R. Guggisberg, professor of history at the University of Basel. The article was originally presented as a paper at the 1984 annual meeting of our society in Philadelphia. Professor Guggisberg revised the paper for publication here and in Switzerland. A somewhat shorter version will appear as a commentary in the forthcoming publication of our society with the translation of the letters which Frey wrote when he lived in this country during …

Book Review: Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, And Critical Responses, Marianne Burkhard

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956) was almost forgotten when he died on a Christmas day after having spent over 20 years in the asylum of Herisau refusing all invitations to continue writing. Yet at the beginning of the century he was well known for his poems (1909), his novels (Geschwister Tanner 1906; Der Gehiilfe 1907; Jakob von Gunten 1908), and his numerous short prose pieces published first in newspapers and magazines, then as collections (Fritz Kochers Aufsatze 1904; Kleine Dichtungen 1914; Poetenleben 1917; Die Rose 1925). In the 1960's and 1970's he was rediscovered in Switzerland and Germany; two editions …

Book Review: Konflikte Der Industrialisierung: Industrie, Raum Und Gesellschaft In Glarus Und Scranton 1840-1914, Heinz K. Meier

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The process of the industrialization of a previously agrarian region is not easy to analyze and evaluate since it is made up of and touches upon qualitative as well as quantitative factors of a considerable variety and complexity. Jurg K. Siegenthaler in his monograph Konflikte der Industrialisierung attempts to provide such an analysis on the basis of a historical-comparative study of two distinct cases of 19th century industrialization, Glarus, a small mountain canton of Switzerland, and Scranton, a city in the Lackawanna valley of northeastern Pennsylvania. The issues raised are significant inasmuch as industrialization is still the prefered precept for …

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Ch 91: A Project Proposal, Erdmann Schmocker

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In 1991 Switzerland will observe the seven hundreth year of its founding, and the city of Bern will be eight hundred years old. The Swiss American Historical Society has decided to participate in the celebration of these anniversaries. Four projects have been approved at the 22nd annual meeting of the society in New York City.