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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Frederick Adolph Herman Leuchs
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Frederick Adolph Herman Leuchs
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Fritz A. H. Leuchs
Publisher: Columbia University Germanic Studies
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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An overview of the development of German theatre in New York City in the nineteenth century, focusing on the influence of five major theatres. .

Author: Albert Bernhardt Faust
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1518

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Author: Rosalie Fellows Bailey
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806348011
Category : Genealogical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Scottish-American Gravestones, 1700-1900, by David Dobson, contains more than 1,500 death records arranged alphabetically according to the surname of the decedent. While the transcriptions vary, all of them also give the decedent's date and place of death and the source of the information, as well as, in many instances, the names of the individual's parents, name of spouse, and even a word or two about occupation. While this diminutive volume can scarcely purport to be the final word on its subject, it nonetheless affords a substantial number of links to researchers hoping to bridge the gap between Scotland and North America.

Author: John Koegel
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580462154
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.

Author: Moses Rischin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674715011
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city's response to this great influx of immigrants--a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility.

Author: Albert Bernhardt Faust
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978823207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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Where did all the Germans go? How does a community of several hundred thousand people become invisible within a generation? This study examines these questions in relation to the German immigrant community in New York City between 1880-1930, and seeks to understand how German-American New Yorkers assimilated into the larger American society in the early twentieth century. By the turn of the twentieth century, New York City was one of the largest German-speaking cities in the world and was home to the largest German community in the United States. This community was socio-economically diverse and increasingly geographically dispersed, as upwardly mobile second and third generation German Americans began moving out of the Lower East Side, the location of America’s first Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), uptown to Yorkville and other neighborhoods. New York’s German American community was already in transition, geographically, socio-economically, and culturally, when the anti-German/One Hundred Percent Americanism of World War I erupted in 1917. This book examines the structure of New York City’s German community in terms of its maturity, geographic dispersal from the Lower East Side to other neighborhoods, and its ultimate assimilation to the point of invisibility in the 1920s. It argues that when confronted with the anti-German feelings of World War I, German immigrants and German Americans hid their culture – especially their language and their institutions – behind closed doors and sought to make themselves invisible while still existing as a German community. But becoming invisible did not mean being absorbed into an Anglo-American English-speaking culture and society. Instead, German Americans adopted visible behaviors of a new, more pluralistic American culture that they themselves had helped to create, although by no means dominated. Just as the meaning of “German” changed in this period, so did the meaning of “American” change as well, due to nearly 100 years of German immigration.