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Book Review: The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children From The Holocaust, Martin Kalb Jun 2016

Book Review: The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children From The Holocaust, Martin Kalb

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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How Louisa May Alcott's 1870 Visit To Switzerland Helped Her Become A "Literary Lion", Megan Armknecht Jun 2016

How Louisa May Alcott's 1870 Visit To Switzerland Helped Her Become A "Literary Lion", Megan Armknecht

Swiss American Historical Society Review

On April 2, 1870, Louisa May Alcott-the author of Little Women-embarked on a European grand tour with her sister, May Alcott, and her friend Alice Bartlett. The women's travels took them to France , Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and England. This grand tour was meant to give Louisa, who was riding on the heels of Little Women's success, a reprieve to regain her health. Her father, Bronson Alcott, wrote to a friend three days before their departure: "I wish Louisa were in better health and spirits, but am consoled in the hope that she is under weigh [sic] to find them …


Book Review: Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History Of The Swiss National Park, Evan C. Rothera Jun 2016

Book Review: Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History Of The Swiss National Park, Evan C. Rothera

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Front Matter Jun 2016

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Carl Jung's Historic Place In Psychology And Continuing Influence In Narrative Studies And American Popular Culture, Emily S. Darowski, Joseph J. Darowski Jun 2016

Carl Jung's Historic Place In Psychology And Continuing Influence In Narrative Studies And American Popular Culture, Emily S. Darowski, Joseph J. Darowski

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Cart Gustav Jung was a Swiss-born psychiatrist who lived from the late nineteenth century well into the twentieth century. He founded the analytical psychology movement and is known for ideas such as the collective unconscious, archetypes, and one of the first conceptions of introversion and extraversion. The following paper explores Jung's influence on the field of psychology and other disciplines, postulating that his more lasting, but subtle influence exists outside his chosen field. This topic for exploration developed out of conversations between the two authors, one with an educational background in cognitive psychology, the other in American Studies. We draw …


Book Review: Healthy Living In The Alps: The Origins Of Winter Tourism In Switzerland, 1860-1914, Victoria M. Breting-Garcia Jun 2016

Book Review: Healthy Living In The Alps: The Origins Of Winter Tourism In Switzerland, 1860-1914, Victoria M. Breting-Garcia

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Back Cover Jun 2016

Back Cover

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Remembering Albert Bartholdi Passaic's Swissamerican Historian, Edward A. Smyk Feb 2016

Remembering Albert Bartholdi Passaic's Swissamerican Historian, Edward A. Smyk

Swiss American Historical Society Review

For most travelers, Switzerland conjures spectacular images of the snow-clad Alps; a place where rugged, commanding vistas coexist with an abundance of pure mountain air, exhilarating in its alluring crispness. Yet there is more to the story than picturesque scenery and quaint villages, which time seems to forget. The Swiss are a proud people , who through the intervening centuries, generation after generation, carefully nourished and guarded their love of freedom and independence. This sturdiness of mind and intellect was transplanted to America with the early Swiss settlers. They came and prospered, achieving distinction in numerous fields of endeavor.


Book Review: Schweizer In Europaischen Seehafen Und Im Spanischen Binnenland. Biographische Skizzen Zur Emigration Und Remigration Seit Der Jruhen Neuzeit, Leo Schelbert Feb 2016

Book Review: Schweizer In Europaischen Seehafen Und Im Spanischen Binnenland. Biographische Skizzen Zur Emigration Und Remigration Seit Der Jruhen Neuzeit, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Operation Sunrise: America's Oss, Swiss Intelligence, And The German Surrender 1945, Stephen P. Halbrook Feb 2016

Operation Sunrise: America's Oss, Swiss Intelligence, And The German Surrender 1945, Stephen P. Halbrook

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Operation Sunrise was a cooperative effort of American and Swiss intelligence services which led to the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht forces in Northern Italy and Western Austria on May 2, 1945. General Heinrich von Yietinghoff, Commander-inChief of the Southwest Command and of Army Group C, surrendered nearly a million soldiers, the strongest remaining German force. This was the first great surrender of German forces to the Allies, and became a strong impetus for the final Allied victory over Nazi Germany on May 8, Victory in Europe (YE) Day. Operation Sunrise helped to nip in the bud Nazi aspirations …


Book Review: Affectionate Authorities: Fathers And Fatherly Roles In Late Medieval Basel, Kelly Ransick Feb 2016

Book Review: Affectionate Authorities: Fathers And Fatherly Roles In Late Medieval Basel, Kelly Ransick

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Minutes And Report Feb 2016

Minutes And Report

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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The Love Story Behind The 1846 Swiss Colony In St. Clara, West Virginia, Marsha R. Robinson Feb 2016

The Love Story Behind The 1846 Swiss Colony In St. Clara, West Virginia, Marsha R. Robinson

Swiss American Historical Society Review

There are some stories that we want to believe . This is the story and history of Clara J. Levassor, of two Frenchmen who loved her, and of the Swiss colony around the town of St. Clara, Doddridge County, West Virginia. The story begins in the French Revolution .


Obituary For Lewis Rohrbach, Carol Rohrbach Feb 2016

Obituary For Lewis Rohrbach, Carol Rohrbach

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Back Cover Feb 2016

Back Cover

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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The Italian Swiss Dna, Tony Quinn Feb 2016

The Italian Swiss Dna, Tony Quinn

Swiss American Historical Society Review

DNA testing is the new frontier in genealogical research. While the paper records of American and European churches and civil bodies are now generally available on line, DNA opens a new avenue of research into the period well before the advent of written records. And it is allowing people to make connections heretofore impossible to make.


Front Matter Feb 2016

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Book Review: History Of The Swiss Watch Industry: From Jacques David To Nicolas Hayek, Victoria M. Breting-Garcia Feb 2016

Book Review: History Of The Swiss Watch Industry: From Jacques David To Nicolas Hayek, Victoria M. Breting-Garcia

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Book Review: Following Zwingli: Applying The Past In Reformation Zurich, Roshunda L. Belton Feb 2016

Book Review: Following Zwingli: Applying The Past In Reformation Zurich, Roshunda L. Belton

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Full Issue Feb 2016

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Front Matter Nov 2015

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Asian Values-Swiss Values?, Elmar Holenstein Nov 2015

Asian Values-Swiss Values?, Elmar Holenstein

Swiss American Historical Society Review

For years one is reading of "Asian values." Traveling through Asia, one is rubbing one's eyes. The whole of Asia, from the Bosporus and Ural all the way to the Pacific Ocean, is thrown into one great pot, as if they all, Turkic peoples and Mongols, Arabs, Iranians and Malaysians as well as Chinese, Koreans and Japanese had been educated by Confucius. Business people as well as political scientists who tell us of "Asiatic values" are flying in twelve hours from Frankfurt and Zurich to Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. Those shortcuts therefore?


Book Review: Beyond The Lens Of Conservation: Malagasy And Swiss Imaginations Of One Another, John H. Barnhill Ph.D. Nov 2015

Book Review: Beyond The Lens Of Conservation: Malagasy And Swiss Imaginations Of One Another, John H. Barnhill Ph.D.

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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"Greet Me The Homeland!" Marguerite Nerny-Stager-The Oldest Swiss Canadian Turns 110 Years, Susann Bosshard-Kalin Nov 2015

"Greet Me The Homeland!" Marguerite Nerny-Stager-The Oldest Swiss Canadian Turns 110 Years, Susann Bosshard-Kalin

Swiss American Historical Society Review

She emigrated 86 years ago because of Eugene. At the end of June 1929, the Vaudois Marguerite Stager was traveling by herself on the Empress of Australia to Canada. Love for her betrothed from Yverdon, who years before had found work as a baker in Montreal, gave her unshakeable confidence. She dared to face an uncertain future in a foreign land . Today, the oldest Swiss woman abroad in North America is living in a retirement home about an hour outside of Montreal. In the company of Maurice, her 83 year-old son , a short visit of Marguerite became possible. …


The Swiss Of Louisville, Kentucky In The Late 1880s, Adelrich Steinach Nov 2015

The Swiss Of Louisville, Kentucky In The Late 1880s, Adelrich Steinach

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In the state of Kentucky, there are two larger Swiss colonies , one in Louisville, the other in Bernstadt, as well as various places that were settled by Swiss families.


A New Patriotic Song For Switzerland Based On Brecht's Children's Hymn, Elmar Holenstein Nov 2015

A New Patriotic Song For Switzerland Based On Brecht's Children's Hymn, Elmar Holenstein

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In 2013, the Schweizerische Gemeinnutzige Gesellschaft (SGG I Swiss Society for Public Utility) announced a competition for a new national anthem. 1 Within a year, more than 200 entries were submitted. At the end of March 2015, six to be discussed nationwide were released. Once sufficiently distributed and found to be popular, the winning version was to be recommended to the federal government as the new national anthem.


Elmar Holenstein: Portrait Of A Swiss Philosopher Nov 2015

Elmar Holenstein: Portrait Of A Swiss Philosopher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

From 1964 to 1972 El mar Holenstein, born 7 January 193 7 in Gossau, Canton St. Gallen, studied philosophy, psychology, and linguistics at the universities of Louvain/Leuven, Heidelberg, and Zurich. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the phenomenology of the pre- and non-conceptual human experience as explored by Edward Husserl (1859-1938), the German founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy. Holenstein gained professorial status (habilitation) by a book on the phenomenological structuralism of Roman Jakobson.


Book Review: The Hutterites In North America, Christopher Cumo Nov 2015

Book Review: The Hutterites In North America, Christopher Cumo

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Book Review: Against War And Empire: Geneva, Britain, And France In The Eighteenth Century, Eric Rexroat Ph.D. Candidate Nov 2015

Book Review: Against War And Empire: Geneva, Britain, And France In The Eighteenth Century, Eric Rexroat Ph.D. Candidate

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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New Books And Articles Concerning Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889), Donald Tritt Nov 2015

New Books And Articles Concerning Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889), Donald Tritt

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Nine years ago the SwissAmericanHistorical Society sponsored publication of the book Leo Lesquereux, Letters from America 1849- 1853 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2006), a translation from the French by H. Dwight Page of Lesquereux 's Lettres d' Amerique 1849- 1853 with editing and commentary by Wendy Everham. I offered to write a biography for this work, titled "Leo Lesquereux: The Arduous Path of a Nineteenth Century Natural Scientist" (pp.1-122). In addition to being a biographical narrative, this section also contained six appendices that list Lesquereux 's publications, secondary references to his works, the titles in his library, and archival collections …