German Language Newspapers Research Articles

Max Brod in Prag. Identität und Vermittlung. Conditio Judaica: Studien und Quellen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte 75 by Ga�lle Vassogne (review)

Reviews 203 Max Brodin Prag.Identität und Vermittlung. By Gaëlle Vassogne. Conditio Judaica: Studien undQuellenzurdeutsch-jüdischen LiteraturundKulturge schichte75 . Tübingen:Niemeyer. 2009. 366 pp. €79.95.isbn 978-3-48465175 -З. GaëlleVassogne's monograph hasbeenpublished ata very aptmoment. After half a century during whichthememory oftheJewish poet,writer and philosopher MaxBrodseemed tohavebeencompletely erasedfrom publicmemory, hisnameis nowonceagainintheheadlines. Theoccasionisthefierce legalbattle between the Israelinational library andtheDeutsches Literaturarchiv inMarbachoverBrod's NachlasSy anarchive that contains notonly hisownworks butthoseofFranzKafka, hisclosest friend. BroddiedinTelAvivin1968, andhisarchive hasremained closedtohistorical andliterary research eversince.Vassogne, whowrote herdoctoral thesison Max Brodin theSorbonne, maynothavehad accessto his archive, butshehas still managed todepictina fascinating waytheimpressive development ofhisliterary, philosophical andpolitical career inPragueduring theyears1904-39. Unlikemost scholars, who analyseBrodfroma philosophical, religious, literary or Zionist perspective, orelseconcentrate onlyonhisclosefriendship withKafka, Vassogne focuses onBrod'sroleas a mediator between CzechandtheGermanculture. This activity, Vassogne argues, originated from hisidentity as a Jew inwhichmediation between cultures playsa central role. Vassogne divides her studyinto two parts. The firstpart, 'Max Brods Identitätssuche', describes Broďs spectacular riseto literary fame,starting with thepublication ofhisfirst short stories in German-language newspapers around 1905, whenhewasonlytwenty-one yearsold,through thegreat successofhisfirst novelSchloß Nornepygge (1908), andculminating withBrodfinding a newidentity as a Jew aroundtheyears1909-11. At first, Vassognesuggests, BrodadoptedSchopenhauer's deterministic and pessimistic philosophy, a worldviewthatwas typicalofViennesedecadenceat theturnof thecentury. This philosophy, whichBrodentitled 'indifferentism', gaveall phenomena intheworld an equalweight, without themoraljudgment of goodorevil.A turning pointis evident, however, in thenovellaEintschechisches Dienstmädchen (1909).Its hero,a young,alienatedman fromViennawho has beensentto Praguebyhis father, succeedsthrough his loveofa youngCzech maidservant in breaking out ofhis cold,gloomyinnerworldofreflection and thought and openinghimself up forthefirst timeto thewarmth andjoyofthe 'real'world.Andjustas thischaracter is awakenedto thebitter nationalrivalry between theCzechsandtheGermans in Prague, so toodidBrodhimself became aware,after thepublication ofthisnovella, ofthefactthathebelonged toneither nationality, butto a 'third* one,to Judaism, whichfromnowon gavehim'den Schlüssel zurBildung einerindividuellen undkollektiven Identität1 (p.46). Vassognededicatesa wholechapterto Brod'sunique views on Judaism. Brod developedhis opinions afterencounterswith the philosophersHugo Bergmanand MartinBuber,and theyare closerto the nineteenth-century 'philosophy of life' (Lebensphilosophie) movement than to religion.They led 204 Reviews to thepublication of Broďs firstnovelsto focuson Jewish themes, Jüdinnen (1911) and Arnold Beer.Das Schicksal einesJuden (1912). The central elements in Broďs philosophical perception of Judaism includetheimperative Thou shalt lovethyneighbour as thyself, an emphasis on freewilland action, and a strong senseofMessianism. Vassogneanalysestheseelements through different texts, including letters, articles and,ofparticular relevance, Brods mostfamousnovel, Tycho BrakesWegzu Gott(1915). She accountsforanother turning pointin the development of Brod'sphilosophical thought, whichoccurredafterthe shock and turmoil causedbytheFirstWorldWar.Froma worldviewthatdemanded thatman shouldstrive formoralreform and placedon his shoulders thesole responsibility forchange,Brod turnedto a view thatacknowledged man's impotence as wellashispower, a viewthat allowsfor divinemercy andunexpected intervention in the formof miracles.An expressionof this new approach can be seen in Brod'simportant philosophical studyHeidentum, Christentum, Judentum (1920). The second part of Vassone'sstudy,'Max Brods politischesEngagement*, comprises Vassogne's greatest contribution toresearch on Brod'swork. Shebegins thesection byanalysing Brod'sroleintheCzechZionistmovement after theFirst WorldWar.Brodwas electedas vice-president of theJewish nationalcouncil (Jüdischer Nationalrat) in thenewCzechoslovak republic immediately after the War,buthisfailure tobere-elected in1920madehimabandonthepolitical world fora careeras a cultural critic andcommentator. Through thisroleBrodtriedto promote Czechculture intheGerman-speaking world, for example bytranslating intoGermanthelibretti ofLeoš Janácek's operas,and byadapting forthestage Jaroslav Hašek'snovelTheGoodSoldier Švejk. Forall hisgood intentions and hardwork, successprovedelusive, and in her finalchapters Vassogne describes howBrodattempted toconfront thetideofantiSemitism andHitler's ascenttopowerbywriting a bookattacking racism, andby inventing a newphilosophical conceptthathecalled'Distanzliebe'. Thisconcept allowedBrodtokeephisloveofGerman culture despite events, andtomaintain at thesametimehisown'national'identity as a Jew. Realizing thegrowing danger, however, Brodmanaged tofleeonthelasttrainleaving Praguebefore Nazitroops entered thecity. He endedup in Palestine, wherehe worked as a dramaturgical advisor atthenational IsraeliTheater 'Habima'untilhisdeathin1968. VassogneseesBrodas a tragic figure. He failedtoforesee events, ortolookfor a refuge thatwouldallowhimto keephiscentral cultural position. In addition, Broddedicated himself to thepromotion ofotherartists, suchas Werfel, Kafka, Hašekand Janáček, butwiththerecognition and successoftheseartists hisrole endedandhewaslargely forgotten. Still, Brodisa fascinating figure, as Vassogne's research demonstrates. Mostofhis careerwas devotedto culturalmediation in theform ofcountless articles andessaysinPraguenewspapers andother Germanspeaking journals.The extent ofhis workis visiblein thevolume'simpressive bibliographical indexdocumenting allofBrod'spoems,short stories, novels, plays, philosophical worksand articleswritten between1904and 1939.Readingthis almostoverwhelmingly enormous indexbrings homeBrod'smastery ofdiverse Reviews 205 media and underscores Vassogne'scontribution to our understanding of his contribution toGerman-speaking culture andtoJewish history...

Press media coverage effects on destinations – A Monetary Public Value (MPV) analysis

The present study examines the extent, source and nature of reporting about Spain as a tourist destination among Swiss German language newspapers. By testing a method based on the Monetary Publicity Value (MPV) the media coverage is quantified in order to arrive at a positive image of Spain among German Swiss print press. Results confirm that: a) familiarization-trips account for an important volume of positive news; b) culture and travel news are predominantly positive, a trend not pointed out by journalist researchers because generally they focus mainly on political or disaster reporting; c) effectiveness of destination image management among print media can be measured and therefore targeted.

Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory

Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. Poorly deployed, the unit was routed by StonewallJackson and became the scapegoat for the Northern defeat, blamed by many on the flightof German immigrant troops. The impact on America's large German community was devastating. But there is much more to the story than that. Drawing for the first time on German-language newspapers, soldiers' letters, memoirs, and regimental records, Christian Keller reconstructs the battle and its aftermath from the German-American perspective, military and civilian. He offers a fascinating window into a misunderstood past, one where the German soldiers' valor has been either minimized or dismissed as cowardly. He critically analyzes the performance of the German regiments and documents the impact of nativism on Anglo-American and German-American reactions-and on German self-perceptions as patriots and Americans. For German-Americans, the ghost of Chancellorsville lingered long, and Keller traces its effects not only on ethnic identity, but also on the dynamics of inclusion andassimilation in American life.

Uncertain Beginnings: Baseball and Long Bob Ewing in Early-Twentieth-Century-Cincinnati

Uncertain BeginningsBaseball and Long Bob Ewing in Early-Twentieth-Century Cincinnati Mike Lackey (bio) George Lemuel "Long Bob" Ewing was born in 1873 on a farm near the village of New Hampshire in Auglaize County, Ohio. According to family lore, he started out pitching potatoes against a target on the barn. He first attracted notice in the mid-1890s while playing for Wapakoneta, latterly in a semiprofessional "trolley league" of small towns connected by the electric interurban railways that crisscrossed the western part of the state. He signed his first professional contract at the relatively advanced age of twenty-four with the Toledo club in the Inter-State League, known—then as now—as the Mud Hens. Ewing toiled three-plus summers for Toledo before moving up to Kansas City, where he helped the Blues win the Western League pennant in 1901. The turning point in his career came shortly after the season's end. On October 10, 1901, pitching for an amateur team in Sidney, Ohio, Ewing faced the Cincinnati Reds on a postseason barnstorming tour and held the big leaguers to a 3-3 tie. Within two weeks he was under contract to pitch for Cincinnati in 1902. It was the beginning of an eleven-year Major League career. But it wouldn't be an easy beginning. Cincinnati, perched on a bend in the Ohio River, had become in the nineteenth century an important terminus of western migration. The self-styled Queen City of the West had also become an early center of the meatpacking industry, "the nation's premier hog-slaughterer and supplier of cured hams."1 In Bob Ewing's day, Cincinnati was still nicknamed Porkville or Porkopolis, and the ball club was called the Porkers or Porkopolitans. In 1902 Cincinnati, with just over 325,000 people, was the second-smallest city in the National League. Though the population increased by nearly 12 percent over the next several years, Cincinnati would be outstripped by Pittsburgh and by 1910 would be by far the smallest city in the league. But no city had a longer or more vigorous history in baseball. Cincinnati was home to the first [End Page 1] all-professional nine, the illustrious 1869 Red Stockings, and was a charter member of the National League. Expelled from the league in 1881 for refusing to give up Sunday ball and beer sales at the ballpark, Cincinnati spent nearly a decade in exile in the American Association—otherwise known as the Beer and Whiskey League—before returning to the fold in 1890. Beer was part of the culture in heavily German Cincinnati. German immigrants and German Americans made up the largest identifiable segment of the population. The city had dozens of German labor unions, social organizations, and charitable societies; extensive German-language instruction in the public schools; two major German-language newspapers; and twenty-six breweries that produced 1.4 million barrels of beer annually. Nowhere was a ball club more representative of its community. So many players of German ancestry performed for the Reds that the team was sometimes called the Heinies. "Where in the world does the Cincinnati club get these fellows with the funny names?" asked former National League manager Tom Loftus. "When I look at a scorecard in Cincinnati, I always feel as if I was looking over a brewery payroll. They get more Steins, Bachs, Stimmels, Gueses, Peitzes, and other noodle soup names on the scorecard here than any other town in the world."2 Much of the team's talent was homegrown, or at least harvested nearby. Throughout the dead-ball era, Cincinnati was fertile ground for baseball ability. Only St. Louis produced slightly more Major Leaguers relative to population, with Cincinnati and Cleveland in a virtual dead heat for second place.3 Ewing, though not a native, typified the regional nature of the team's scouting. Over his eight years with the Reds, 25 percent of all spots in the opening-day lineup were occupied by players born within 100 miles of Cincinnati's League Park—18 percent by players born within 35 miles. Ewing's first Major League manager was John Alexander "Bid" McPhee. McPhee was an institution...

German Pioneers on the American Frontier: The Wagners in Texas and Illinois

A case study of two brothers, Julius and Wilhelm Wagner, who immigrated to the United States from Baden, Germany. Julius immigrated as part of an early communist group, the Darmstadters or Forty, who established the utopian settlement of Bettina in 1847. His anti-slavery beliefs forced Julius to Mexico during the Civil War, but he returned to Texas after the war. His older brother Wilhelm fled Germany in 1851 as a result of his liberal political beliefs and settled in Texas. He founded a German-language newspaper when he moved to Freeport, Illinois.

The Iberian Dimension of the German-Jewish Discourse: Robert Menasse's "Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle"

The Iberian Dimension of theGerman-Jewish Discourse: Robert Menasse's Dz? Vertreibung aus der H?lle FLORIAN KROBB National UniversityofIreland, Maynooth For Hans-J?rgen Schr?der on his 6oth Birthday, 7 March 2003 In writing about its own history, a community writes a collective autobio graphy for itself.Through historical writing, that community provides itself with a sense of origin, ancestry and lineage, thereby generating both a sense of identity in the present and a sense of direction for the future. As with personal autobiography, collective autobiography chooses and portrays defining events and periods in its subject's development, such as birth (of the individual) or foundation (of the community), defence against dangers from outside or disintegrating forces; probation, consolidation and unification (marriage) are set-pieces of such histories, which help to structure, compre hend and eventually justify the self-image of individual and community alike.1 While this phenomenon has been aptly theorized with reference to communities defining themselves as 'nations', it can be argued that the same holds true for other communities, whether they define themselves in terms of ethnicity, gender, class, regional origin or religion.2 The Jewish commun ity ? even though it has been described, and has occasionally described itself, as a nation ? is one such group, as iswitnessed by the upsurge in historical writing on Jewish history since the early decades of the nineteenth century, when, challenged by new demands for self-definition arising out of the process of embourgeoisement,the historical dimension came to assume a role and an importance previously held by religion.3 From the late eighteenth century onwards, history and historical narration began to fill the void created by the decreased relevance of religion ? a 1 See, for example, the remarks by Roberto Simanowski, 'Einleitung ? Zum Problem kultureller Grenzziehungen', in Kulturelle Grenzziehungen im Spiegel der Literatur. Nationalismus, Regionalismus, Fundamentalismus, ed. by Horst Turk, Brigitte Schultze and Roberto Simanowski (G?ttingen, 1998), pp. 8-60, especially pp. 21-24. 2 One example would be Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Reflections on theOrigins and Spread of Nationalism, 2nd edn (London and New York, 1991). 3 Ismar Schorsch, From Text toContext. The Turn to History in Modern Judaism (Hanover, NH and London, 1994). 172 Menasse's Die Vertreibung aus der H?lle victim of the processes of emancipation and embourgeoisement, with their secularizing consequences. History now had to provide meaning, gaining the responsibility for instilling and fostering a sense of collective identity by deducing from the remembrance of a shared past in the post-biblical world a vision of an anticipated destiny. In this respect, theJewish community was not unique ? the nineteenth century was throughout Western civilization the age of historical legitimization of contemporary views and actions. For the Jewish community as a minority in Christian society, however, such a turn to history surely had a special significance and urgency which have to be considered against the background of collective self-definition at a time of accelerated social and cultural change. If the above statements hold true for the modern ? Jewish or non Jewish ? relationship with history, then the postmodern relationship with history has become fundamentally more problematic. No longer can the assumption be maintained that there is a single, authoritative process called 'history' leading up to the present state in a linear fashion. There is, rather, the acknowledgement of a plethora of competing and conflicting versions of events of the past ? and of competing and conflicting interpretations of their meaning and their relevance for the present. In this perspective, representations of history reveal themselves as projections, while historical accounts become constructions generating their meaning as verbal struc tures, i.e. narratives: 'Every history is first and foremost a verbal artefact, a product of a special kind of language use.'4 I The concept of history as projection and construction characterizes Robert Menasse's Die Vertreibungaus der H?lle [ The Expulsion fromHell], a new historical novel that attracted considerable attention at the Frankfurt Book Fair in September 2001 and sparked a number of controversial reviews in themost influential German-language newspapers.5 Thomas Kraft, writing in the RheinischerMerkur, calls the novel a 'Volltreffer' [here: hit]; Martin Luchsin ger's verdict on the book is...

Gender Stereotypes of Leaders: An Analysis of the Contents of Obituaries from 1974 to 1998

The present study investigates changes in gender stereotypes by an unobtrusive method. Obituaries of deceased women and men in leading positions as published in four German language newspapers between 1974 and 1998 were analyzed. Following a previous study (E. Kirchler, 1992), terms used in the obituaries to describe former leaders were classified into 58 categories. Frequencies of descriptions were analyzed with regard to leadership success, stability of attributes, and person-orientation versus task-orientation. Results show that gender images were dissimilar in content each of the years. In 1992 and 1998, however, female and male stereotypes became more similar.

HISTORIA DE LAS ESTRATEGIAS PERIODISTICAS DEL PERIODICO VALDIVIA’S DEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, 1886-1912

This article analyses the strategies applied by the editors of Valdivia’s Deutsche Zeitung, a German language newspaper in Valdivia (Chile), between 1886 and 1912. It seeks to explain the reasons behind the success or failure of these strategies and the social, political and economic elements involved. The author concludes that the closure of this paper was due to the inability to find a journalistics strategy in tune with the news interests of its readers

Brain death and organ donation in Germany: analysis of procurement in a neurosurgical unit and review of press reports.

A prospective study was undertaken to determine the number of potential organ donors in a neurosurgical intensive care unit and to record the actual number of organ donations. The reasons for refusal of organ donations were analysed with respect to the controversial public discussion of the brain death concept and the transplantation law in Germany. From 1994 to 1997, the number of cases of brain death, and the number of cases in which relatives consented or refused to organ donation as well as the number of actual organ explantations was recorded. Over the same period, press reports of 5 German language newspapers were analysed with regard to the authors' position on brain death and transplantation law, their qualification, intention, and mode of presentation. Annually, about 70 deaths occurred on the department's intensive care unit of which almost 30% of the patients were determined to have suffered brain death without any obvious contraindications against organ donation. The refusal rate of relatives rose from 56% up to 78%, and the rate of organ donors thus decreased from 5% in 1994 to 4% presently in the department. About 100 reports were published each year in the analysed newspapers, of which about 90% voiced approval of organ transplantation. During the review period, the depiction became more objective (57% in 1994 to 82% in 1997) and the suspicious attitude toward the technique of brain death diagnosis declined. Whereas 50% of the articles rejected the brain death concept in 1994, this figure decreased to 39% in 1997 and conversely the concept of consent rose from 33% in 1994 to 56% in 1997. In Germany, the relatives refusal rate in organ donation is continuously high, presumable due to a depressing 39% of press reports rejecting the brain death concept, and resulting in a very low number of organ donations. There is hope that the transplantation law which has finally passed German parliament in 1997, confirming the brain death concept as well as the legal principle of prior consent by the donor or consent by the relatives will eventually result in an increase of organ donation especially when supported by an educational campaign which is embodied in the transplantation law.

Nabokov Criticism in German-Speaking Countries: A Survey

Nabokov Studies 5 (1998/1999) REVIEW ESSAY NASSIM BALESTRINI (Mainz) Nabokov Criticism in German-Speaking Countries: A Survey German critics were quick to praise "Sirin" as the major talent in the young generation of émigré writers. Reviews of the late 1920s express the hope that his works be made available in German translations—as indeed they soon were. Since then, reviewers have routinely noted new German publications of Nabokov's works. Starting in 1989, each new volume of Dieter Zimmer's Rowohlt edition of Nabokov's collected works has produced a new wave of reviews. German literary scholars have been publishing essays on Nabokov— especially since the 1970s, and such studies have grown during the 1980s and 1990s. While earlier essays focused mainly on Nabokov's English works, an increasing number are being devoted to the Russian writings. The first German-language dissertation on Nabokov appeared in 1975, and since then several others (in German and English) have appeared. The following survey first examines German-language Nabokov criticism in newspapers and literary magazines. The second part discusses scholarly essays, dissertations, and recent developments in German-language reception of Nabokov. Full citations will be found in the bibliography section that concludes the survey. The bibliography includes many items not discussed in the survey itself, but does not include criticism published in languages other than German. Book Reviews and Other Newspaper Articles Since 1959 German-language newspapers in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany have frequently published reviews and other articles about Nabokov. In addition to writing about the works themselves, journalists ruminated about the Lolita "phenomenon," honored Nabokov on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and paid tribute to his genius at the time of his passing in 1977. More recently, discussion has turned to Nabokov's reception in the former Soviet Union and its successor states, and to film and stage productions. Mary, among Nabokov's originally Russian novels, received the largest 186 Nabokov Studies number of reviews when it appeared in 1976. Gabriele Leech-Anspach (1976), Andreas Roßmann (1977), Jochen Schmidt (1977), and Werner Waldmann (1977) agree that Mary already shows Nabokov's talent and introduces some of his main themes, such as time, memory, and dealing with one's past. HansJ ürgen Fröhlich (1976) thinks that Mary should be read in the context of Nabokov's later works and sees Balzac's Père Goriot as a model. Mary proves Nabokov's conventionality as a novelist—a conventionality that the writer manages to conceal more efficiently in later works. In contrast, Werner Waldmann finds that Mary shows Nabokov's mastery in "effecting strong feelings with economic linguistic means and of impressively describing psychological situations" (1977). In 1986, Angelika Kaps reports on director John Goldschmidt's movie version of Mary (with a screenplay by the British writer John Mortimer). Goldschmidt sets the film's opening in Russia and then moves the setting to Berlin where the protagonist, Ganin, experiences flashbacks of his Russian past. This makes the plot more accessible and stresses the analogy between physical and interior journeys. Several critics describe Nabokov's other Russian novels as precursors of later developments in his works or of literature in general. Otto F. Beer (1985a and 1985b) and Wilhelm Krull (1986) regard The Eye as stylistically ahead of its time: Beer concludes that Nabokov used fantastic realism thirty years before it became popular and Krull describes The Eye as a meta-novel. Glory strikes four reviewers as praiseworthy (cf. Friesel 1978, Frisé 1977, Leech-Anspach 1978, Wirsing 1977). Uwe Friesel, the translator of several English Nabokov novels, describes Glory as a step in Nabokov's evolution towards Speak, Memory and Ada. The novel's weakness lies in the merely decorative function of its historical and cultural details, whereas in Ada Nabokov creates a timeless world, "a utopia with occasional eschatological allusions." Sibylle Wirsing stresses that Nabokov does not ridicule Glory's ineffectual protagonist, but treats him with tenderness. She regards the characterization of Martin as an argument against Freudian theories about the fragmentation of the self and finds Nabokov concerned with the sacredness of the individual mystery. In contrast, Sabine Schultze's brief review in Die Zeit describes Glory as...

Islands of Deutschtum: German-Americans in Manchester, New Hampshire and Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1870-1942

The history of the German-American communities of Manchester, New Hampshire and Lawrence, Massachusetts raises several important issues about immigration to the United States. Comprising only a small percentage of the population of the two cities immigrants founded a distinctive culture – islands of Deutschtum – as vibrant as those in the German belt of the Midwest. The historiography has generally concluded that German-Americans could not unite in common cause, and that World War I ended culture in America. However, not only did Germans in Manchester and Lawrence unite, but they maintained Deutschtum through World War I into World War II. Several factors led to the longevity of these islands of Deutschtum. Atypical of the majority of immigrants, one-third of the Germans in Manchester and Lawrence came from Saxony and another seventeen percent came from Silesia. America's pre-eminent textile cities attracted textile workers from the small towns of Saxony and Silesia. Many were acquainted or related to each other, and bonds of family and province existed. The small size of the immigrant community also helped it survive. The immigrants and leaders knew each other, and first-generation leaders remained active into the 1920s and 1930s. Members of the second-generation continued Deutschtum into the 1940s. A family owned German-language newspaper supported their efforts from 1883 to 1942. The ability of Protestants, Catholics, and Vereinsdeutschen to put aside old world animosities and unite in common causes helped preserve ethnicity. Presbyterian churches and their members played influential roles in Deutschtum in Manchester and Lawrence. The Lutheran denomination, pre-eminent elsewhere in German-American communities, was small or nonexistent, and Catholic parishes also played less important roles. During World War I, German-Americans in the two cities maintained active and public expressions of Deutschtum, mostly unthreatened by the larger community. Paradoxically, although culture proudly continued between the wars, the larger and dominant American culture slowly engulfed it. The shock of World War II submerged identity, and migration out of the cities after the war finally ended the enclaves and doomed ethnicity.

Getting to know Dr Müller: Accounts of Ferdinand von Müller in Victoria's Mid-Nineteenth-Century German-Language Newspapers.

Victoria's mid-nineteenth-century German-language newspapers are a rich source of information about prominent members of the local German community. The activities of Ferdinand von Muller, Australia's greatest nineteenth-century scientist, received regular coverage. These sources have been systematically studied to provide insights into the Muller known to the German community.

German Russian Newspapers in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1728–1990

In the fall 1989 issue of Heimatliche Weiten, the semiannual Soviet German literary journal, a bibliographical article by Victor Herdt, “Verzeichnis der russland- und sowjet-deutschen Zeitungen (1728–1989),” lists more than 150 German-language newspapers published in Russia and the Soviet Union. The entries are limited to German Russian newspapers and exclude those of other ethnic Germans, such as the Baltic, Bessarabian, or urban Germans, who differ from the German Russians in origin, culture, and history.

The Val J. Peter Newspapers: The Rise and Decline of a Twentieth-Century German-Language Newspaper Empire

The Val J. Peter Newspapers: The Rise and Decline of a Twentieth-Century German-Language Newspaper Empire

‘ZUR BEGLEITMUSIK VON HITLERS BOMBERN’: THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER DIE ZEITUNG IN WARTIME LONDON (1941-1945)1

German Life and LettersVolume 45, Issue 3 p. 234-238 ‘ZUR BEGLEITMUSIK VON HITLERS BOMBERN’: THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER DIE ZEITUNG IN WARTIME LONDON (1941–1945)† Donal McLaughlin, Donal McLaughlinSearch for more papers by this author Donal McLaughlin, Donal McLaughlinSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1992 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.1992.tb00954.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume45, Issue3July 1992Pages 234-238 RelatedInformation

President's report to the membership

I am pleased to provide this report to the membership on the activities of the Arkansas Historical Association during 2015. At last year's business meeting in West Memphis, members elected Robert Thompson of Paragould, Carl Drexler of Magnolia, Archie Moore of Little Rock, and Buck Foster of Clarksville to the Association's Board of Trustees. Billy Higgins and Jessica Hayes, both of Fort Smith, were re-elected to second terms. Blake Wintory, Simon Hosken, Linda McDowell, and Josh Williams completed their service on the board. Those who left the board remain dedicated to the mission of the Association, and their talents and expertise will be missed. I appreciate the hard work, support, and encouragement that they gave during their tenures. Join me in thanking them for their service, as well as in welcoming the newest board members.The financial position of the Association remains strong, despite the volatility of the financial markets. The Finance Committee, under the guidance of Bob Razer, followed the market's ups and downs and made portfolio adjustments when needed to ensure the greatest return on the Association's assets. Other members of the committee included Maylon Rice and Robert Thompson. Membership in the Association remained steady in 2015. However, to sustain a robust organization our numbers must increase. As we enter the Association's seventy-fifth year, I challenge each of you to recruit one, two, or even three individuals to join. For the cost of four large cups of coffee, they could become members of the now venerable Arkansas Historical Association.Editor Patrick G. Williams and his editorial colleagues produced four outstanding issues of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly last year. New scholarship on understudied topics was on full display in each. Fascinating articles on colonial Arkansas written by Judge Morris S. Buzz Arnold appeared in the spring and winter issues, while University of Arkansas faculty member Kathleen Condray addressed the 1892 war between two German-language newspapers in Little Rock. Other subjects included Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller and death sentence commutations, the deseg- regation of North Little Rock schools, the assassination of Congressman James Hinds during Reconstruction, and an 1854 Arkansas Supreme Court case involving an Independence County slave charged with murder. The Quarterly remains one of the premier state historical journals in the country, and it is a publication of which we can all be proud.The AHA Newsletter, edited by the affable Blake Wintory, continued to be an indispensable venue for reporting the Association's activities. As any editor will tell you, gathering copy can test even the most patient person. Blake, with unlimited patience, ferreted out newsworthy information and produced two excellent issues. I encourage all of you to send Blake news and other history-related tidbits for possible inclusion in the newsletter (bwintor@gmail.com). The Association's website and social media presence also remained important means of disseminating information about the AHA to members and other interested parties. If you are on Faccbook, please consider following the Arkansas Historical Association. Donna Ludlow, the only full-time employee of the Association, remains our best ambassador.The city of West Memphis rolled out the red carpet last year, hosting our annual meeting for the first time in the Association's history. complete the sesquicentennial commemoration of the Civil War, last year's conference theme was To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds, which focused not only on the war's end but also on the state's medical history. AHA board member Simon Hosken served as local arrangements chair, and Susan Young of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History acted as program chair, excellently organizing informative, entertaining, and exciting sessions. Simon and Susan were ably assisted by Rachel Silva of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. …

Positivist Liberalism in Mexico

Among the thousands of disillusioned republicans who left Germany after the revolutions of 1848 was a Jew named Isidoro Epstein. He was one of the small number of forty-eighters who chose to migrate to Mexico. There the record of his varied career as statistician, mapmaker, educator, publisher, and journalist illustrates how the skills and talents of a professionally trained foreigner met the needs of Mexico as these needs were perceived and defined by the Mexican elite of the second half of the nineteenth century. His career as outspoken liberal editor of German language newspapers, however, was marred by conflict with a German community that was divided in its interpretation of German nationalism and in its feelings about liberals and Jews. Both aspects of Epstein's life in Mexico, from his immigration in 1851 until his death in 1894, demand attention and prove to be fascinating.

German Literature as Represented in Two German Language Newspapers of Ontario, Canada

German Literature as Represented in Two German Language Newspapers of Ontario, Canada

German Language Influences in St. Clair County, Illinois

#-ERMAN IMMIGRANTS began coming to St. Clair County, Illinois, in vJ large numbers during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and in the course of time they became the dominant gwoup in many sections of the county. The bordering counties of Madison, Monroe, and Randolph also embraced large segments of Germans in their populations. These Germans for a long period of time perpetuated their own particuliar type of culture in this new setting. In particular, they tended to cling to the German language as the common means of communication among themselves. German language newspapers were common, the German language was taught in schools, and religious services were carried on in German. In the course of time, this German population tended to become bilingual, using English for communication with the Englishspeaking public but retaining the parent language for communication in their own gwoup. In fact, many older citizens of the county still speak both German and English. English, however, has gradually displaced German as the major language of these people. Since World War I, this tendency has been accelerated until at present many, possibly most, of the descendants of the German pioneer element in St. Clair County speak only English. As might be expected, however, despite the decline of German as the major language in the county, German has left a residue of impact upon the language of the community. In the following discussion, I shall point out some of the ways in which German has left its mark on the language here. Although the German element in the population of St. Clair County is very numerous, its influence on the language has not been as great as might be expected. Place names of German origin are more or less typiclal of the German influence uas a whole. Of the nineteen townships in St. Clair County, first organized in 1884, only two, Engelmann and Millstadt, are of genuine German origin. A third, Lenzburg Township, was named for a town in Switzerland. Names of towns and villages-Millstadt, Paderborn, Darmstadt, and so forth-run in about the same proportion. Rural school districts named for local families such as Richter, Liebig, Batdorf, Funck, Klein, Baltz, Eckert, are perhaps a little more numerous. Practically no natural features bear Germlan names, excepting an occasional unoicial Hexenbuckel, or an Americanized Dutch Hill or Dutch Hollow. In proportion to the population of German origin, German