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The Gotthard Base Tunnel In A Historical Perspective, C. Naseer Ahmad Jun 2017

The Gotthard Base Tunnel In A Historical Perspective, C. Naseer Ahmad

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Gotthard Base Tunnel project which had a triumphant opening in June 2016 was one of the once in a century projects which deserved a fitting celebration. Alastair Jamieson, NBC reporter, noted that "yodeling and a triumphant Alpine horn heralded the inauguration Wednesday of the longest, deepest railway tunnel ever constructed-a feat of engineering that will slash journey times across Europe."


Full Issue Jun 2017

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Book Review: Lifting Hearts To The Lord: Worship With John Calvin In Sixteenthcentury Geneva, Chris Shively Jun 2017

Book Review: Lifting Hearts To The Lord: Worship With John Calvin In Sixteenthcentury Geneva, Chris Shively

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Back Cover Jun 2017

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Book Review: Migration, Settlement And Belonging In Europe 1500-1930s, William P. Kladky Jun 2017

Book Review: Migration, Settlement And Belonging In Europe 1500-1930s, William P. Kladky

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Front Matter Jun 2017

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From The Swiss Protestant Reformation To The Golden Age Of Political Theory In The Geneva Of Voltaire: The Birth Of Modern Democracy, Dwight Page Jun 2017

From The Swiss Protestant Reformation To The Golden Age Of Political Theory In The Geneva Of Voltaire: The Birth Of Modern Democracy, Dwight Page

Swiss American Historical Society Review

On October 31 st , 1517 Martin Luther posted 95 theses on the door of the Palast Church in Wittenberg, Germany, thereby igniting the Protestant Reformation . In 1518, Huldrych Zwingli became the pastor of the Grossmtinster in Zurich where he began to preach ideas on reforming the Catholic Church, rejecting the veneration of saints and questioning the power of excommunication.


"The Clamor Of The People" Popular Support For The Persecution Of Jews In Switzerland And Germany At The Approach Of The Black Death, 1348-50, Albert Winkler Jun 2017

"The Clamor Of The People" Popular Support For The Persecution Of Jews In Switzerland And Germany At The Approach Of The Black Death, 1348-50, Albert Winkler

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The persecution of Jews in the German Empire and Switzerland from 1348 to 1350 at the approach of the Black Death was one of the most shameful examples of brutality against those people in European history before the twentieth century. Das Martyrologium des Nurnberger Memorbuches presents the names of at least 339 cities, towns, and villages in Germany and Switzerland where Jews were oppressed at that time, and the Jewish communities in many scores of cities and towns were eradicated. Many of the victims were tortured and burned alive.


Front Matter Feb 2017

Front Matter

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Book Review: Historical Dictionary Of Switzerland, 2nd Edition, Rob Sherwood Feb 2017

Book Review: Historical Dictionary Of Switzerland, 2nd Edition, Rob Sherwood

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Book Review: Colonial Switzerland: Rethinking Colonialism From The Margins, Katie Bruton Feb 2017

Book Review: Colonial Switzerland: Rethinking Colonialism From The Margins, Katie Bruton

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Back Cover Feb 2017

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Full Issue Feb 2017

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A Chasm Between Two Vanguards: Near Encounters Of Russian Emigre Marxists And Dadaism In Switzerland, Bryan K. Herman, Axel Fair-Schulz Feb 2017

A Chasm Between Two Vanguards: Near Encounters Of Russian Emigre Marxists And Dadaism In Switzerland, Bryan K. Herman, Axel Fair-Schulz

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In the year 1916, Switzerland was an island of peace in a sea of belligerence. Surrounded by Germany, France, and Italy, Switzerland was one of the few European counties to maintain its neutrality during the war that transformed Europe into a graveyard. It also became an ideal sanctuary for those who opposed the brutality and strident nationalism of World War I. Ever since the defeat of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, Switzerland had acted as an ideal place of refuge for members of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (the RSDLP, a Marxist party founded in 1898). This party sought …


Minutes And Reports Feb 2017

Minutes And Reports

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Privilege As Blind Spot: Carl Jung, The Red Book, And The"Collective Unconscious", Laura L. M. Fair-Schulz, William E. Herman Feb 2017

Privilege As Blind Spot: Carl Jung, The Red Book, And The"Collective Unconscious", Laura L. M. Fair-Schulz, William E. Herman

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Carl Gustav Jung's monumental Liber Novus or The Red Book journal, begun in 1914 and published posthumously in 2009, presents the viewer with a dazzling array of painted images. 1 The project references both his accumulated and specialized knowledge as a theorist and practitioner of psychoanalysis, as well as the personal explorations of his own "subconscious" mind . It also reveals contextually his privilege of being able to undertake such a work.


Zurich And The Birth Of French Surrealism, Dwight Page Feb 2017

Zurich And The Birth Of French Surrealism, Dwight Page

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Paris has long been regarded as the artistic and literary capital of the world. Yet little known is the historical fact that Zurich played an equally fundamental and key role in the development of modern art, the birth of the avant-garde in literature and the arts, and the advent of French Surrealism.


Full Issue Nov 2016

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German-Speaking Social And Benevolent Societies In Louisville, C. Robert Ullrich, Victoria A. Ullrich, Jeffrey A. Wright Nov 2016

German-Speaking Social And Benevolent Societies In Louisville, C. Robert Ullrich, Victoria A. Ullrich, Jeffrey A. Wright

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The first German-born immigrant to settle m Louisville was Augustus David Ehrich, a mastershoemaker from Konigsberg, Prussia, who arrived in 1817. German immigration to Louisville progressed slowly in the 1820s, and by 1832 only 25 German-born heads of households were living in Louisville.


"Einsiedeln Elsewhere": Searching For A Swiss Village In The American City Of Louisville, Kentucky, Susann Bosshard-Kalin Nov 2016

"Einsiedeln Elsewhere": Searching For A Swiss Village In The American City Of Louisville, Kentucky, Susann Bosshard-Kalin

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Louisville on the Ohio, a mid-sized city in Midwest United States , is known to many because of the Kentucky Derby-the horse race rich in tradition happening since 1901 every year, or perhaps because of Bourbon. What has Louisville to do with a village in the midst of Switzerland?


Front Matter Nov 2016

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Of Mothers, Daughters, And Growing Up The Changing Ties Between The Monastery Einsiedeln And St. Meinrad Since 1850, Fr. Thomas Fassler Osb Nov 2016

Of Mothers, Daughters, And Growing Up The Changing Ties Between The Monastery Einsiedeln And St. Meinrad Since 1850, Fr. Thomas Fassler Osb

Swiss American Historical Society Review

A number of factors in the mid-nineteenth century led the Benedictine monks of Einsiedeln, situated in the Swiss pre-alpine region south of Lake Zurich, to establish a daughter house faraway in the United States. The repeated urging from Catholic bishops plus the eagerness to evangelize new areas, the great need for priests to serve German-speaking Catholic immigrants, and perhaps also a certain search for adventure, all were additional reasons.


Book Review: Sauerkraut, Suspenders And The Swiss: A Political History Of Green County's Swiss Colony, Kevin Cronin Nov 2016

Book Review: Sauerkraut, Suspenders And The Swiss: A Political History Of Green County's Swiss Colony, Kevin Cronin

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Book Review: Glarners In America: Stories Of Immigrants And Their Descendants From Canton Glarus, Switzerland, Donald G. Tritt Nov 2016

Book Review: Glarners In America: Stories Of Immigrants And Their Descendants From Canton Glarus, Switzerland, Donald G. Tritt

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Book Review: The Honourable Consul: A Story Of Diplomacy, Marjorie J. Hunter Phd Nov 2016

Book Review: The Honourable Consul: A Story Of Diplomacy, Marjorie J. Hunter Phd

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Einsiedeln On The Ohio Overseas Migrations Of Einsiedeln People To The United States In The 19th And Early 20th Centuries, Heinz Nauer Nov 2016

Einsiedeln On The Ohio Overseas Migrations Of Einsiedeln People To The United States In The 19th And Early 20th Centuries, Heinz Nauer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Between 1850 and 1950, more than 3,000 men and women from Einsiedeln went overseas, most of them to the United States. It was not unique since many people also migrated from other regions of Switzerland, and the total migrations of Swiss overseas during that time represented only a very small fraction of the global movement of people in three main directions: from Europe to the Western Hemisphere, from India and southern China to Southeast Asia, and from Russia to the Far East. 1 Despite not being out of the ordinary, it seems useful to explore the history of overseas migrations …


Back Cover Nov 2016

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Chronology Of The Multimedia Project "Einsiedeln Elsewhere" June Presence Of A Swiss Town In The American City Of Louisville, Kentucky Nov 2016

Chronology Of The Multimedia Project "Einsiedeln Elsewhere" June Presence Of A Swiss Town In The American City Of Louisville, Kentucky

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Susann Bosshard-Kalin visits St. Meinrad , Indiana, in 2006 on a journalistic assignment for the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and encounters eight descendants of Einsiedeln immigrants to Louisville, Kentucky. Susann Bosshard-Kalin plans to explore the experience of living Swiss immigrants and publishes the books westward. Encounters with Swiss American Women (Swiss American Historical Society, 2010), an English translation by Marianne Burkhard and Leo Schelbert of westwiirts. Begegnungen mit Amerika-Schweizerinnen (Bern/Wettingen: efef Verlag 2009, 2nd edition 2010).


Full Issue Jun 2016

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Neutral Ground: Switzerland And Some British Poets Of The Great War, Robert S. Means Jun 2016

Neutral Ground: Switzerland And Some British Poets Of The Great War, Robert S. Means

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Over the years, Switzerland has been a safe-haven for artists seeking refuge from war. Situated at the center of Europe, possessing great wealth and natural beauty, and surrounded as she is by potential enemies , Switzerland has long been unique in maintaining her neutrality, especially through the two world wars of the Twentieth Century. Other neutral countries have not been so successful enforcing their neutrality. Recall the fate of Belgium and Luxembourg in both world wars: the invasion and violation of these neutrals was a central part of German strategy. But in the two world wars of the Twentieth Century, …