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Editors Notes, Lukas F. Burckhardt
Editors Notes, Lukas F. Burckhardt
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Editor of the Newsletter wants to apologize for being unable, due to lack of space, to publish in this issue all the valuable material he has received from various sources.
Letter From The President, Heinz K. Meier
Letter From The President, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
With this newsletter we enter the second year of the revived Swiss- American Historical Society. We hope that it wil.l be as good a year for the Society as 1965 was. In order to do this we not only must maintain our present membership , but enlarge it and keep it growing. We also have to work toward achieving the noblest and most important goal of the existence of our Society, namely to make available in published form results of research and investigation of matters concerning Switzerland and the United States . From information we receive we conclude that there …
An Anthology If Swiss Music On Records, Lukas F. Burckhardt
An Anthology If Swiss Music On Records, Lukas F. Burckhardt
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In our Newsletter of October 1965 we already have drawn the attention of our readers to the "Anthology of Swiss Music".
Letter, Alfred Zehnder
Letter, Alfred Zehnder
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In der Beilage erhalten Sie die dritte Nummer der aus dem Rundschreiben an die schweizerischen Geisteswissenschafter in den USA hervorgegangenen Newsletter der Swiss-American Historical Society.
Letter From The Sahs President, Heinz K. Meier
Letter From The Sahs President, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Almost a year ago, the Swiss American Historical Society was reactivated at a meeting in New York City. Since then a great deal of work has been done in the effort to make ours a strong and active organization, and I am glad to be able to report that the result so far has been very satisfactory. From the list included in this newsletter you will see that our membership is one of great variety and distinction and that the interest in our work and purpose is lively in many parts of the United States as well as Switzerland. We …
Swiss-American Mennonite History, L. B.
Swiss-American Mennonite History, L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The role of the Swiss and other European Anabaptists (Wiedertaufer) or Mennonites (i.e. followers of Menno Simon, 1492-1559) and other Protestant groups who emigrated to the U.S. as a characteristic element in American social history is studied intensively by Americans interested in their contribution to American culture.
The Swiss In The United States, H. M.
The Swiss In The United States, H. M.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
As announced in the "Letter from the President" every member who joins the SAHS this year will receive a copy of John Paul von Grueningen, ed., The Swiss in the United States (Madison , 'Wisconsin: Swiss-American Historical Society, 1940, 153 pages). The following is a brief' introductory description of the book.
The Americanization Of Raetic ( Romanish, German, Italian Family Names From The Canton Grisons, Switzerland
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Secretary of the SAHS, Dr. Augustin Maissen, has sent us a copy of " Studia Raetoromanica I", Ediziums Della Revista Retoromontscha. 1965 (Editor: Alfons Maissen, Chur). It consists of a study by Augustin Maissen on "L' Americanisaziun dils nums de schlatteina romontschs e grischuns" with an Abstract in English (19) pages. It is astonishing how many Bundner names, some of them extinct in Grabunden, have been preserved in the U.S., either in the original or in a somewhat anglicized form. There are even Romansh sepulchral inscriptions, e.g. at Badus (Romansh geographic name!) in South Dakota.
An English Translation Of J.R. Von Salis' Standard Work On Rilke Switzerland, L. B.
An English Translation Of J.R. Von Salis' Standard Work On Rilke Switzerland, L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Among the many publications on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke the book by the Swiss Professor of History Dr. Jean Rodolphe von Salis, until recently President of the Foundation Pro Helvetia, excels by its tactful and sober approach to a delicate subject which all too often has been misused by panegyrists full of loud enthusiasm, but rather bare of substance. When Rilke arrived in Switzerland in 1919, von Salis was nearly eighteen years old and twenty five when Rilke died at Territet in 1926. Von Salis knew Rilke as a guest in his family, but more and more also in …
Letter From The Sahs President, Heinz K. Meier
Letter From The Sahs President, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Dear Members and Friends,
The response to our first newsletter of April has been very gratifying; so IWcb so that we decided to issue a second letter now, although the summer is a time vhen many of us pursue other than their ordinary tasks. One of the persons absent from the country at t his time is our secretary, Dr. Augustin Maissen, who is spending a research-vacation in Spain and Switzerland. We will have to wait for his detailed report till our fall newsletter, but I can tell you t hat we have received so far about forty-five membership applications …
Reviews Of Robert H. Billigmeier's And Fred A. Picard's "The Old Land And The New", L. B.
Reviews Of Robert H. Billigmeier's And Fred A. Picard's "The Old Land And The New", L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The readers of this second SAHS-Newsletter are referred to Dr. Heinz K . Meier ' s comprehensive evaluation - published on pages 5-7 in our :first Newsletter of April 1965 - of the new book:
120th Anniversary Pf New Glarus, L. B.
120th Anniversary Pf New Glarus, L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In our first Newsletter we have presented to our readers the American writer Herbert Kubly from New Glarus, Wisconsin. He is so deeply rooted in that community founded by settlers from the canton of Glarus, Switzerland in 1845 that he may even write a novel based on its history which is, at the same time that of his own family.
Swiss Songs On The Emigrants To The U.S., L. B.
Swiss Songs On The Emigrants To The U.S., L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Our remarks in the first Newsletter on the Sviss folk song scolding the emigrants to the U.S. for tearing up their citizenship certificate ("Du willst den Burgerbrief zerreissen, den dir das teure Hochland gab") has provoked a well documented comment by the Swiss Consul General in New York, Dr. Hans Lacher, who has collected literature on the different versions of this song from the serious earlier text.to the later ironical deviations most of us remember.
"Das Schicksal Machte Mich Zu Einem Kock" Memoirs Of A Swiss Cook In America, L. B.
"Das Schicksal Machte Mich Zu Einem Kock" Memoirs Of A Swiss Cook In America, L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This is the beginning of a long poem by Brother _oscar Arnold> S.M. (Marfanist) published in his book ".Erom Dawn to Sunset. A Poet's Autobiographysr, Marianist Publications, Mount St. John, Dayton, Ohio , 1964 (paperback, 172 pages).
Romansh Poetry, L. B.
Romansh Poetry, L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In 1958, together with his friend Robert Billigmeier, Dr. Augustin Maissen has edited the booklet "Contemporary Romansh Poetry. An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry written in the Romansh Language of Switzerland, with Bilingual Text, including an Introduction and Biographical Notes", published by the Romansh-American Foundation and printed by Editorial 'Cantera', Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico (48 pages). This charming presentation of Romansh culture is an excellent introduction into the fourth Swiss national language because it appeals to a feeling for beauty which is universal. The poem "Il pur suveran" ("The Sovereign Peasant") by Anton Huonder (1824-1872), one of the early pioneers of the …
Outlook, L. B.
Outlook, L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Many subjects worthy of our attention could not been treated in this issue. We mention a few examples:
Green Meadow Foundation Is Looking For New Director Of Institute
Green Meadow Foundation Is Looking For New Director Of Institute
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Green Meadow Foundation (Stiftung "Im Gruene') in Zurich is looking for a new Director of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic and Social Studies in Ruschlikon-Zurich.
Helvetica Americana: Recent Bibliography In American Reviews, Ag. M.
Helvetica Americana: Recent Bibliography In American Reviews, Ag. M.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The poet Robert Walser (1878 Biel - 1956 Herisau) occupies an important part in the Texas Quarterly, Autumn 1964, vol. VII, No. 3, pp. 98-119 (single copies$ 1.50), with an introduction by Christopher Middleton and three translations from Walser's work: Masters and Workers; Pierrot, with woodcuts by Robert Wyss; and Helblingrs Story. It also contains some excellent illustrations from the Swiss magazine DU: portaits, fascimiles of Walser's handwriting contrasting his normal and mentally disturbed periods.
Arnold Laett 1885-1964
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Pioneer in the history of the Swiss abroad
In his standard work:
Schweizer im Ausland
Von ihrem Leben und Wirken in aller Welt
Herausgegeben von der Neuen Helvetischen Gesellschaft und der Auslandschweizer-Kommission . Sadag AG ., Genev
Europe's Contribution To American Civilization, Alfred Zehnder
Europe's Contribution To American Civilization, Alfred Zehnder
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
You have invited me to speak about Switzerland's contribution to American civilization. This is quite a task. I don't intend to give you today a complete study on this subject. You will see later why. Switzerland is not only a small country in the heart of Europe, but it is Europe. And Europe is Switzerland. It is impossible to determine exactly what part in the Swiss contribution is genuine Swiss, and what part is European. That is why I would like to invite you to try with me to discover the great ideas and the fact s which ought to …
Two 19th Century Swiss Immigrants Speak Out: Book Review, Heinz K. Meier
Two 19th Century Swiss Immigrants Speak Out: Book Review, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In the course of the nineteenth century several hundred thousand Swiss immigrated to the United States. We know relatively little about why they left Switzerland, where they came from, what they experienced in the New World, and how many returned. General works dealing with the subject in any depth do not exist. One possible explanation for this gap in historical knowledge may be due to the fact that emigration from Switzerland has always been a highly individualized process. The number of attempted group colonizations is very small, and successful ventures of this kind were even scarcer. Yet it is very …
Meeting Of The Swiss - American Historical Society
Meeting Of The Swiss - American Historical Society
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
For a report on this meeting we refer to the "Rundschreiben an die schweizerischen Geisteswissenschafter in den USA" of December 1964 and to the "Amerikanische Schweizer Zeitung" New York, of January 13, 1965.
High-School Teachers Shortage Of 600 In Switzerland In 1975
High-School Teachers Shortage Of 600 In Switzerland In 1975
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The "Standige Komrnission Gymnasium-Universitat" in Zurich has asked to distribute among Swiss intellectuals abroad the enclosed fact sheet followed by a form for a non-committal application for a teaching-post during a probationary period at a Swiss High School.