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American Irish Newsletter - October - November 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter - October - November 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Story Of Emilie Joss-Bigler, Ruth Harbecke Jewett
The Story Of Emilie Joss-Bigler, Ruth Harbecke Jewett
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The story of Emilie Bigler Joss begins not in America, but in Switzerland. It was in the year 1848 that her parents, Christian and Elizabeth Bigler, left their homeland for America.
Booknotes, Leo Schelbert
Booknotes, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Conflict And Compromise In Multilingual Societies, Heinz K. Meier
Book Review: Conflict And Compromise In Multilingual Societies, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Kenneth D. McRae, professor of political science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, has spent much of his academic career studying Swiss multilingualism and multiculturalism. In the course of his endeavors he has become an expert on the topic, as is reflected in the books and articles he has published on it, best known among them Switzerland: Example of Cultural Coexistence (1964). Since Canada is itself a linguistically and culturally divided country, Dr. McRae's work on Switzerland assumed a wider significance, inasmuch as it lent itself as a basis for comparison and, perhaps, instruction, especially in his function as a research …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert, Heinz K. Meier
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
"Grandmother Joss consented, one evening in 1943, to tell me the story of her earlier years," explains her granddaughter Ruth Harbecke Jewett in the Preface to The Swiss Connection, The Lives and Times of Frederick Joss and Emily Bigler Joss and Their Descendants. (Chicago: Privately printed, 1983), 116 pp. Over forty years ago Ms. Jewett had taken copious notes of those conversations, but then forgotten them; when she rediscovered her notes some years ago, Ms. Jewett decided to use them as the core for a loving portrait of six generations of the Joss-Bigler family. Ms. Jewett has given gracious permission …
American Irish Newsletter - August - September 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter - August - September 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter
No abstract provided.
American Irish Newsletter - June - July 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter - June - July 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Tradition And Individualism: Hans Banziger's Books On Swiss And German Literature, Marianne Burkhard
Tradition And Individualism: Hans Banziger's Books On Swiss And German Literature, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Over the years, I have seen Hans Banziger here and there, on both sides of the Atlantic. His slender figure would appear in the midst of people crowding lecture rooms at meetings of the Modern Language Association in New York or Chicago, his smile would suddenly greet me, in the summer, at the library in Zurich, and whenever possible he would attend the annual meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society, an intent listener often adding thoughtful comments or questions. Rather short in stature, his grey hair closely cropped, he has always been, for me, an example of the "Swiss" …
My Life, Hans Banziger
My Life, Hans Banziger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
One of my very young students having gotten once the task to write on his short lifetime introduced his witty essay with the remark that curricula vitae reminded him always of necrologies. He went on, using the fiction of a minister's sermon, to describe his career: "A promising young life came abruptly to an end; Karl X had wanted to become a teacher, but his grades were not good enough ... ". Thus, you might understand, why I myself hesitated a little when Marianne Burkhard asked me to write about my life. Memoirs always sound a little bit sad. But …
The Publications Of Hans Banziger
The Publications Of Hans Banziger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The publications of Hans Banziger including books, articles in scholarly publications, articles in newspapers, and biographical entries on H. Banziger.
Preface, Marianne Burkhard
Preface, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The present issue of the SAHS Newsletter is devoted to Hans Banziger, Professor emeritus of German Literature at Bryn Mawr College. This continues a loose series of articles about Swiss- Americans, about their lives and their contributions to the profession.
Here And There - Remarks On Daily Life, Hans Banziger, Marianne Burkhard
Here And There - Remarks On Daily Life, Hans Banziger, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Banziger's book College-Erinnerungen is a collection of short pieces written between 1967 and 1979 and published first in the periodical Schweizer Monatshefte. Here he describes and comments on a wide variety of phenomena he encountered in his daily life at Bryn Mawr. There are notes about nature and academic procedures, about political events and difficulties with language, about schools and churches. The thread connecting all these details of the old and the new country is a keen interest in human behavior and its inherent attitudes as well as the attempt to show that reality will always surpass our images and …
American Irish Newsletter - April - May 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter - April - May 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter
No abstract provided.
American Irish Newsletter - February - March 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter - February - March 1985, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec
American Irish Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Book Review: The Essence Of Swissness: A Special Issue Of The Times Literary Supplement, Leo Schelbert
Book Review: The Essence Of Swissness: A Special Issue Of The Times Literary Supplement, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Friday, December 7, 1984, issue of the London Times Literary Supplement was devoted in good part to works about Switzerland and its unique literary and historical traditions. It opens with a challenging essay by George Steiner who raises the question "What is Swiss?" "The Writer may speak against the grain," he cautions, "even when he bears close witness. Ten years are, as I have found, too short a time in which to get to know the palimpsest of Genevan society, let alone those of Switzerland." Yet he offers courageously and with much insight his "impressions as to the nature …
Book Review: Des Suisses Pas Comme Les Autres Et Au Bout De La Terre, Marianne Burkhard
Book Review: Des Suisses Pas Comme Les Autres Et Au Bout De La Terre, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
For several months, five French-Swiss journalists travelled in other continents to meet and interview Swiss emigrants, to see how they lived and to explore their views on Switzerland and their emigration. Deliberately, the reporters chose countries far away from Europe, i.e. the United States, the Republic of South Africa, Singapore, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia. As their enterprise was not designed to be either scholarly or encyclopedic, the authors interweave impressions and information, historical facts and personal anecdotes. The result is a book that is fascinating to read as it offers vivid descriptions of places "au bout de la terre" and …
Swiss Mercenaries In The Service Of The British Crown: The War Of 1812, Ivor C.E. Luethy
Swiss Mercenaries In The Service Of The British Crown: The War Of 1812, Ivor C.E. Luethy
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
During the War of 1812, Swiss mercenaries were part of the British army which fought against the American forces. The most important figure among these soldiers in the service of the British Crown was undoubtedly Sir George Prevost, Governor-General and military commander of British North America from 1811-1815. He was a descendant of a prominent Geneva family, several members of which had attained high ranks in the British forces; Augustin Prevost, for example, Sir George's father became Major-General under General Wolfe. Augustin Prevost had also been a friend of Frederick Haldimand, Governor-General of Canada during the American Revolution.
Minutes Of The Twenty-First Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Arnold H. Price
Minutes Of The Twenty-First Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Arnold H. Price
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The twenty-first annual meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society was held at the headquarters of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 1984.
Book Review: One Small Lifetime, Leo Schelbert
Book Review: One Small Lifetime, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
To do justice to this moving memoir is less than easy. It presents the story of two intertwined lives, that of Amalia Thurkauf-Braun who was born in the 1880s and that of her son Ernst Albert, born in 1907 at Liestal, the capital of Canton Basel-Land, in Switzerland. The lives of Ernst's father Emil Thurkauf, in contrast, and of Ernst 's three siblings come only occasionally into view from the perspective of Amalia Thurkauf's reports or of her son's autobiographical reminiscences. Both records are touching documents that tell of unusual endurance, of sincere faith, and of incredible capacity for work. …
Chapter Ii: Chicago And The Danish Settlement
Chapter Ii: Chicago And The Danish Settlement
The Bridge
If two words characterized Chicago in its first halfcentury, they were "growth" and "change." In 1840 Chicago was a small prairie town of 4,500 inhabitants. But the forces that brought immigrants to the Midwest had already begun to transform Chicago. With the development of trade and commerce between the Midwest and the East, better transportation over land and water became essential. In the 1840s, the State of Illinois constructed the Illinois and Michigan Canal, connecting the Mississippi River with Lake Michigan by way of Chicago. For the first time, Midwestern produce could go to market through the Great Lakes, as …
Chapter V: Danish Religious Life In Chicago -- Trinity Church
Chapter V: Danish Religious Life In Chicago -- Trinity Church
The Bridge
When the Danes came to America, the Church of Denmark did not follow on their heels. The Danish Church believed that most Danish emigrants were dissenters, not supporters of the established Lutheran church. The Church viewed Danish immigration as too small to support churches, even in a city as large as Chicago. The few Danes in America might join Norwegian congregations, thereby maintaining ties with a similar form of Lutheranism. 1 The problem of not having churches to attend was somewhat unusual among immigrants. Catholic groups were welcomed by the international Catholic Church, wherever they settled. Such Protestants as the …
The Danish Community Of Chicago, Philip S. Friedman
The Danish Community Of Chicago, Philip S. Friedman
The Bridge
Although millions accepted the challenge of immigrating to America, that choice required extraordinary courage. Even the initial task of leaving the homeland and traveling to America often took on mythical proportions. Prior to the journey, the immigrant needed to settle his affairs, selling for cash the possessions which could be sold. Having decided to emigrate to the New World, he did not expect to make the long return trip for many years. 1 After gathering a few essential provisions and saying goodbye to his old home, the immigrant and his family boarded a ship for the two-week voyage. Every ship …