German Milwaukee: It's History- It's Recipes

Product Description

This book, by history and photograph, recipe and anecdote, recounts the lately forgotten story of the Germans in Milwaukee and the profound influence these German-speaking immigrants and their descendants had upon the dynamic city of today. Author Trudy Knauss Paradis, with the assistance of E.J. Brumder, beautifully sets forth this extraordinary history; from the early German-speaking arrivals to Milwaukee County in the 1830s, to the vibrant German Athens on Lake Michigan which these immigrants and their children created, to the suppression of German identity following the two World Wars, to the renaissance of German ancestral pride of today. Together, Ms. Knauss Paradis, Director-in-Charge of Cultural Exhibition for German Fest Milwaukee and a child of German-born immigrants; and Mr. Brumder, local historian and scion of the Brumder German-language publishing empire, provide a well-rounded view of not only what it has meant and still means to be German in Milwaukee, but also an insightful portrayal of an often brilliant, culturally vibrant and always industrious community which has enriched Milwaukee at every conceivable level.

Ach Ya!: Traditional German-American Music from Wisconsin

Average customer rating:

Ach Ya!: Traditional German-American Music from Wisconsin

Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

General | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

General | Books on CD | Audiobooks | Formats | Books
ASIN: 0924119144

Book Description

Now available as a double CD, Ach Ya! was selected in 1985 as an outstanding American folk music recording by the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. Featuring acapella singers, yodelers, zither players, button accordionists, and full-fledged "Dutchman" bands from Watertown to Wausau, from Cedar Grove to Birnamwood, this compilation’s nearly 50 performances were chosen by folklorists Philip Martin and James P. Leary following a year of intensive field and archival research. Accompanied by an extensively annotated booklet, the CD’s tracks follow four themes: Around the Table, Children’s Songs and Rites of Passage, Across the Generations, and Dance Melodies and Marches. A valuable resource for teachers of German, especially in the Badger State, the lives, lyrics, and melodies captured on Ach Ya! help reflect and define the German American experience in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.

Originally released as a 1985 double LP, Wisconsin Folklife Center
Distributed for the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of Wisconsin–Madison

German Expressionist Prints: The Specks Collection at the Milwaukee Museum of Art

Average customer rating:

Don't judge a book by it's cover
A "must" for art history buff supplemental reading lists
German Expressionism in Prints

German Expressionist Prints: The Specks Collection at the Milwaukee Museum of Art
Stephanie D'Alessandro
Manufacturer: Hudson Hills Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Museums & Collections | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Prints | Other Media | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Expressionism | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0944110940

Book Description

The Specks Collection is noted for its high quality, breadth, and profound graphic power. In celebration of the gift to the museum, the collection is presented here for the first time in its entirety.

Customer Reviews:

Don't judge a book by it's cover.......2005-05-26

This book opens with a sequence of images which shows how good it might have been. Each image is given a full page, unencumbered with text, and thus obtains its full power. Unfortunately, that's where it ends, as most of the rest of the book is like looking through somebody's stamp collection, with up to 5 images a page!. There are simply too many images crammed in, so, instead of enjoying the prints for what they are, you are left wondering what they would have looked like had they been presented properly. This is especially unfortunate when you realise prints are an ideal opportunity to present the work as the artist might have wished - since, unlike paintings, they are actually intended for reproduction.

So, useful if you want just an academic catalogue record of everything that is in the Marcia and Granvil Specks collection, but pretty useless otherwise.

A "must" for art history buff supplemental reading lists .......2004-08-10

An impressive collaborative project of the Hudson Hills Press and the Milwaukee Art Museum, German Expressionist Prints: The Marcia And Granvil Specks Collection is a striking artbook portraying black and white imagery, reflecting the positive and negative facets of German life from the 1890s to the 1930s. Bold figures of over 475 prints with brief biographies of the artists who created them and commentaries upon the art form itself make German Expressionist Prints a "must" especially for art history buff supplemental reading lists in general, and academic library German art history collections in particular!

German Expressionism in Prints.......2004-08-06

German Expressionist Prints: The Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Stephanie D'Alessandro, James Deyoung, David Gordon, Reinhold Heller, Sarah B. Kirk, Kristin Marholm, Gretchen L. Wagner, Milwaukee Museum of Art (Hudson Hills Press) 531 colorplates and 9 black-and-white illustrations A good overview of prints by early 20th Century masters.
Widely acclaimed as one of the most significant bodies of German Expressionist prints in the United States, The Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection is noted for its high quality, breadth, and profound graphic power. In celebration of its gift to the Milwaukee Art Museum, it is presented here for the first time as a whole, as a body of imagery that reveals the myriad concerns of the age-the joys and pain of life in Germany from the 1890s to the 1930s.
The Specks collection is a vast mirror reflecting that complicated and fiery period when printmaking asserted itself, when images impressed on paper became the most profound and exacting expressions of the age. From the tragic and sorrowful prints of Käthe Kollwitz to the profoundly human religious woodcuts of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff to the biting satire of radical artist George Grosz, the collection illuminates the sense of urgency, originality, and vision of a wide range of artists, all attempting to limn a shifting world of despair, hope, and renewal in the fragile years from the Second Empire to the rise of the Nazis. Etchings and drypoints of biting spontaneity and intensity, lithographs of corrosive ingenuity, woodcuts to stir the soul, heralded an era of individuality and democracy in visions of a new society that could be reproduced, illustrated, and mass produced to reach the most remote and casual of observers. Emotionally, technically, and rebelliously, prints offered artists fresh directions and challenges at a time of intense preoccupation and ultimately disillusionment with society and the world.
Within this broad terrain, the publication of The Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection constitutes an extraordinary opportunity to delve assiduously into an entire generation of remarkable images and artists. The stunning quality and vast range of prints, personally researched and selected by the Specks during countless trips to Europe over three decades, offer riches unparalleled in any other American collection of Expressionist prints-everything from the most iconic, rare impressions to remarkable prints by artists little known in the United States. In its totality the collection invites repeated viewing and comparison of similar themes and media by an array of artists over several decades. In its specifics there are areas of strength that reach the highest levels of excellence, importance, and expressive mastery.
In addition to the illustrated catalogue of over 475 prints accompanied by biographies of the artists, the book includes essays discussing issues of visual culture and representation by leading scholars in the field: Reinhold Heller, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Chicago; and Stephanie D'Alessandro, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. The Milwaukee Art Museum's Senior Conservator James deYoung contributes a study of the papers used in their prints.

Average customer rating:

Wisconsin German Land and Life

Manufacturer: Max Kade Institute
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Americas | History | Subjects | Books

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

Social History | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books

Emigration & Immigration | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This volume, an innovative approach to immigration research, is the cooperative project of a group of German and American scholars. The focus is on migrants from farming communities along the Rhine who relocated to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century: from the Westerwald to Reeseville, from the Cologne area to Cross Plains, from the Eifel to the so-called Holyland in Fond du Lac and Calumet Counties, and from Rhine Hesse to Washington and Sheboygan Counties. Taking different approaches, the authors of the essays concentrate on the migrants' relationship to the land, and use, among other sources, official records on both sides of the Atlantic, such as census and family records, and land registers, plat maps, and land surveys. The broad picture presented here includes the migrants' situation in their original home, the migration process itself, and their experience in Wisconsin.

Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies

Average customer rating:

Values and ideas Germans brought with them to Wisconsin

Germans in Wisconsin (Ethnic Series)
Richard H. Zeitlin
Manufacturer: Wisconsin Historical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

General | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Biographies & Memoirs | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books

All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Norwegians in Wisconsin (Ethnic Series)

ASIN: 087020324X

Book Description

Between 1820 and 1910, nearly five and a half million German-speaking immigrants came to the United States in search of new homes, new opportunities, and freedom from European tyrannies. Most settled in the Midwest, and many came to Wisconsin, whose rich farmlands and rising cities attracted three major waves of immigrants. By 1900, German farmers, merchants, manufacturers, editors, and educators--to say nothing of German churches (both Catholic and Lutheran), cultural institutions, food, and folkways--had all set their mark upon Wisconsin. In the most recent census (1990), more than 53 percent of the state's residents considered themselves "German"--the highest of any state in the Union.

In this best-selling book, now with updated text and additional historical photographs, Richard H. Zeitlin describes the values and ideas the Germans brought with them from the Old Country; highlights their achievements on the farm, in the workplace, and in the academy over the course of 150 years; and explains why their impact has been so profound and pervasive.

Customer Reviews:

Values and ideas Germans brought with them to Wisconsin.......2001-04-05

From 1820 to 1910 German-speaking immigrants immigrated to Wisconsin in search of new homes, opportunities, political and religious freedom. By 1900 Wisconsin had a wealth of German farmers, merchants, manufacturers, editors, educators, churches (both Catholic and Lutheran), and communities making up the Wisconsin social, political, cultural, and economic landscape. With his seminal treatise, Germans In Wisconsin, Richard Zeitlin describes the values and ideas Germans brought with them to Wisconsin as he highlights their achievements in both rural and urban settings over the course of the last 150 years. A "must" for all Wisconsin school and community library collections, historical photographs enhance Zeitlin's informative and engaging text.

Art in Germany 1909-1936: From Expressionism to Resistance : The Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection

Average customer rating:

Art in Germany 1909-1936: From Expressionism to Resistance : The Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection
Reinhold Heller
Manufacturer: Prestel
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Average customer rating:

If Negative Stars Were Possible...
Exciting Book!
A Fast Read
A Fast Read
Pass..........

Wolf Pass (Mysteries & Horror)
Steve Thayer
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

Literary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0399149910
Release Date: 2003-03-10

Book Description

When a railroad engineer is shot dead, and it is determined that the bullet came from a sniper's rifle more than six hundred yards away, all eyes turn on Deputy Sheriff P. A. Pennington as a suspect. Pennington-the man who solved the Wheat Field murders-is by far the best marksman in town, and had been an Army Ranger sniper in the war. When the engineer's young and sexy wife is shot dead days later, he realizes that his worst nightmare is about to begin.

During the war, Nazi SS Colonel Christian Wolfgang Stangl-known as "the Wolf"-controlled the narrow mountain railroad pass in the Bavarian Alps used to ship millions of dollars in gold and war loot. Pennington had been sent on a suicide mission to shut down the pass-but the Wolf got away. Now it appears as if the Wolf is at his door.

Customer Reviews:

If Negative Stars Were Possible..........2005-04-25

I bought two books (used) by Steve Thayer at the same time, having never before read anything by this writer and deciding to take a chance. I like mysteries; I like Wisconsin and I often like a WWII connection in fiction. The first of the two Thayer books that I read was The Wheat Field and I thought it might be the worst book I have ever read so I was leery of the second book, Wolf Pass., but gave this writer a second chance. That was my second mistake, the first being the reading of the first book. Having now finished both books, I can say that it is hard to decide which is the worse book! Who are these readers and reviewers who think these books are good, exciting, interesting, coherent, worthwhile writing? That is completely baffling to me and any positive regard for these Steve Thayer books is the actual mystery ! It is astonishing that this writer gets published when there are competent writers whose books are not getting published. That Thayer's books make the New York Times bestseller lists, according to the book cover, or receive great blurb comments make me think I have entered some alternate universe, some cosmic warp. Both of these books have utterly implausible, extremely annoying plots with thin, less than one-dimensional characters and ridiculous dialogue; the stories are disjointed with entire segments that are non sequitur! Both of these Thayer books feature the same protagonist, a small-town Wisconsin deputy sheriff named Pennington. In both books, it is 1962. The very odd association between this seemingly young deputy in 1962 and his history as a WWII sharpshooter-sniper just doesn't ring true, accurate or plausible. The recurring association with this small town in the Wisconsin Dells and bizarre sexual rings and Nazis and world political conspiracies and JFK assassination attempts (one in each book!) not only stretch credulity, they break and destroy credulity!! To say these "plots" are contrived gives them far more credit than they are due. If anything I am saying about these books leads anyone to think that these might be like an Indiana Jones adventure or some hero versus evil villains story line, please, please understand - these books are NONE of that! There is nothing engaging or interesting or fun or charming or adventurious or mysterious in these books, nothing!! Here is a condensed version of one ludicrous scene in Wolf Pass: deputy Pennington is driving the rural backroads in the night in his squad car when he impulsively decides to indulge his bizarre, perverse, and gratuitous sexual voyeurism by hiding himself in the deep woods at some distance from a farmhouse way out in the country where live a young newlywed couple. (The book's writer - I cannot call this person an author - makes these books even more sophomoric and pornographic by throwing in voyeuristic sexual scenes out of the blue, without any discernible rationale and also by inserting the recurring sub-plot of attempted JFK assassinations.) This protagonist is just creepy - and he is supposed to be the "good guy" apparently - but he's just odd and creepy and disgusting, unlike all the other "characters" who are disgusting, creepy and odd! So he's out in the woods in the dark night, allowing the writer to wax pornographic, apparently,(could have been a dark and stormy night, but it wasn't...) when what to deputy Pennington's eyes and ears should appear but Nazis - on a loudspeaker - speaking German - to him. Again: nighttime, deep woods, rural Wisconsin, 1962, impulsive/disgusting/creepy voyeur, a seemingly young man who also happens to be a WWII veteran (did I mention it's 1962 and he's still young??) jarred by Nazis who are - suddenly - out there with him on his unplanned, impulsive stop in the woods - and the Nazi stalkers have audio equipment, and this all just happens to happen just at the same time as the "protagonist" deputy/WWII sniper/voyeur creepily watches a newlywed farm couple engage in sexual activity while they just happen to stand at their picture window, out in the deep woods at night in 1962 just as the deputy just happens to pass by in his car,just happens to hike through the woods to a clearing where the farm house with the big picture window just happens to be and decides to position himself behind trees and the Nazi stalker from WWII who just happens to be in the same deep woods in the night turns on the loudspeaker directed at the young deputy who, readers are told, was a sniper in WWII and made this Nazi commander so angry that he is now in the deep Wisconsin woods with audio equipment directed at the deputy-sniper. Oh, and while engaged as a sniper in WWII in the Bavarian Alps, although spending days and nights in the mountains - having never been in mountains before - the young Pennington (young in WWII and still young in 1962!) singlehandedly destroys Nazi train installations with one rifle but is wounded from Nazi weapon onslaught and from being buried under land and rocks but he miraculously! emerges albeit almost mortally wounded with organs and limbs damaged/exposed/destroyed, is captured by Nazis but in the next scene is sipping delicious wine - never mind those destroyed internal organs and broken limbs! - with the Nazi commander who, later in 1962,we are led to believe just happens to end up in the Wisconsin woods at night with speaker equipment just as Pennington, erstwhile captured sniper, has just happened to secret himself to watch a young farm couple act as pornographic performers for the voyeur, who in a previous book and in this book, too, will save JFK from assassination! Whew. It's pretty amazing, all right, but - say, isn't that JFK over there chatting with some young farm girls in the Bavarian Alps? No, wait, I'm sorry - that part didn't happen. That wouldn't be believable...
In both books - again, without any rationale or connection to anything plausible - a completely nutty and contrived connection to JFK and assassination attempts gets thrown into the mix. Why not? Nothing else makes sense in these books! One can only think that these books, these "plots", are the result of one of those monkey with a keyboard experiments! The fact that these books get published is one thing, that they get any positive reviews by people who can read is another, that publishers and others put glowing blurbs on the back covers is insulting and disingenuous, that the word `intelligent' is used in association with these books is just ridiculous! I have now tried Steve Thayer's writing and I only wish I had that time back because it was a giant waste. There are books that one simply didn't like for one reason or another, but I have never read anything before that actually made me angry that it made it into print and onto shelves, that reviewers promote them. Ridiculous, stupid, time-wasting, prurient, nonsensical drivel. One last point: according to the book information, the books' writer, Thayer, lives in Minnesota so one wonders - why doesn't he set his books in Minnesota, rather than Wisconsin? Is this all part of the legendary rivalry between Minnesota and Wisconsin and by setting these "stories" in Wisconsin, is he trying to pollute beautiful Wisconsin? Are these ridiculous books actually part of some nasty tourism plot? I know one thing: I will never again travel into Thayer-land! Waste of time. Waste of brain cells. Waste of eyesight. Waste of trees. All thumbs down; all digits down.

Exciting Book!.......2004-08-14

A train engineer is shot from long distance by an expert marksman.Soon after his sexy wife is also murdered.The hero of this book Deputy P.A. Pennington becomes the number 1 suspect.
Pennington was an Army Ranger ssniper during World War II.The
deputy has a suspect from his past.He has not seen his suspect
since World War II ended.Pennington was captured and held by
his chief suspect Nazi Colonel Christian Stangl.Pennington's
sharpshooting had disrupted the train operations of an important
Bavarian railroad pass.Clues indicate to Deputy Pennington that
Stangl has come back into his life.Also added to the mix is Alex
LaChapelle a Scotland Yard Detective who also has an interest in finding Stangl.Add to the mix Sheriff Zimmer.The end of the book
is shocking and finishes with a bang.A very good book that you
will have trouble putting down.

A Fast Read.......2004-06-24

Steve Thayer continues the saga of P.A. Pennington with a novel set in 1962 with side trips to WWII. The novel begins with the murder of a railroad engineer in Deputy Pennington's hometown, Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin. The deputy begins to fear that this murder, and the ones that follow, have something to do with his WWII experience. The book is a fast read and while not the greatest work of fiction, it is certainly readable.

A Fast Read.......2004-06-24

Steve Thayer continues the saga of P.A. Pennington with a novel set in 1962 with side trips to WWII. The novel begins with the murder of a railroad engineer in Deputy Pennington's hometown, Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin. The deputy begins to fear that this murder, and the ones that follow have something to do with his WWII experience. The book is a fast read and while not the greatest work of fiction, it is certainly readable.

Pass.................2004-05-30

Wolf Pass opens up with the murder of a railroad engineer. Turns out our Deputy Sheriff P.A. Pennington of Kickapoo County is having a "special" sexual affair with this railroad engineer's wife, Lisa. And when he drives over and tells her her husband has been murdered, what does she do? Why orders Pennington to strip her and watch while she masturbates, screaming her bloody head off, of course. Seems all the reviewers here think that is sexy. I think it's sicko. Why does Pennington just watch? Cuz of some war injury, he can no longer get it up. What watching sex is gonna do for him I don't have the slightest idea. The same thing happens the day of the funeral out there in the cemetery, again screaming her head off. Get real.

Next a woman detective from Scotland Yard arrives. And she is incessantly flirty and unprofessional. She doesn't know Pennington from adam yet she hones in on his "special" sexual relationship with Lisa like a tease. Like she'd like to take Lisa place.

Book Description

Based on true stories of immigrant families.

Will Emilie ever see her brother again?

"Nordamerika?" Twelve-year-old Emilie Borner jumped at her brother's shout. Karl leaped from his chair and towered over Pap. "You want to emigrate—auswandern? Well, I'm staying here!"

The lure of "America letters" from New World settlers has reached the provinces of central Germany. August 1855 finds the Borners, a middle-class farm family struggling with crop failure, making plans to heed God's call leading them westward.

Emilie is torn. America is just a dream to her, and she loves the rugged beauty of her native land. Besides, her best friend, Louise, must stay, while snoopy, snooty Rosamund Albrecht comes along!

The Borners' journey from Germany to Wisconsin is filled with hardship and surprises. Hated by a fellow traveler, accused of theft aboard ship, and worried over the sadness of a little girl, Emilie finds that only faith and the help of new friends can carry her through. In the New World, the challenges only grow. Can the Borners meet their needs for shelter, clothing, and food for the winter? Can the heartbreaking split in their family be healed? And when Emilie and her younger brother are stranded in a blizzard, can they even survive?

In The Journey of Emilie, Emilie Borner finds that God hears and answers our prayers—sometimes in unexpected ways.

Marcia Hoehne has written several books for children. Many of the characters and events in The Journey of Emilie are based on the lives of the author's great-great-great grandparents who emigrated from Germany to Wisconsin in 1855. Mrs. Hoehne lives in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, with her husband and three children.

Customer Reviews:

A good historical immigrant story for young readers........2004-11-13

When twelve-year-old Emilie Borner's parents decide to emigrate from Germany to America in 1855, she has mixed feelings. She is excited about the better opportunities her family will have in America, but she will miss her best friend, and is worried about her older brother Karl, who wants to stay in Germany. Her worst fears come true when Karl runs away just before the family is to board the ship. Even worse, Emilie's mother decides to stay behind and search for Karl, while Emilie, her father, and her younger brother continue on to America. The long voyage across the ocean is difficult, and is made worse by Emilie's longing for her mother, and the fact that Rosamund, a mean girl from her village, is traveling on the same ship. Rosamund seems determined to make things worse for Emilie. What awaits the Borners in America? And will Emilie ever see her mother and Karl again?

Although not among my top favorites, this was an enjoyable story about a young immigrant girl's life. However, I felt that the ending was very abrupt, and I would have liked to read more about Emilie's life in America, as most of the book took place on the ship. However, young readers who enjoy historical fiction immigrant stories will most likely still enjoy this book.

This book is astounding.......2003-11-29

Emilie has lived in Germany all her life, and suddenly her father announces that her family is immigrating to America. That means that she will have to go and leave her best friend Louise behind, and travel with snooty Rosemund, and girl who thinks she's above everyone else.
From the very biginning there's trouble in the air, which only turns worse when Emilie's older brother Karl and his friend leave right before the ship is to sail. Emilie's mother decides to stay and look for them, while the rest of the family continues on their way to America. This forces Emilie to shoulder the responsibility of being the woman of the house until her mother arrives. The task seems impossible, but she puts her faith in God and trusts Him to help her along the way.

This is such a marvelous book! My mom gave me the entire series for my birthday once, and this was the first one I read. It was so wonderful to finally read a book about a Christain who made the journey from Europe to America. It was a real encouragement to me, and I reccomend this book to everyone, at all ages. This book will never get old to me!

Couldn't put it down!.......1999-11-15

We're a homeschooling family, and I picked up this book while looking for ideas for a Unit study on pioneers and immigration. I loved it! Not only was the story engrossing, but I learned so much about how my ancestors got from Germany to America. I also liked reading a story where Christians were portrayed in a positive light.

The Breithaupt in the Civil War: The Breithaupt Family-An Unfolding History

Average customer rating:

The Breithaupt in the Civil War: The Breithaupt Family-An Unfolding History
Gerald O. Breithaupt
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Memoirs | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Americas | History | Subjects | Books

Country catalog of memories: (a childhood on a German-American farm in the late 1920's and 30's)

Average customer rating:

Country catalog of memories: (a childhood on a German-American farm in the late 1920's and 30's)
Helen E Ouimette
Manufacturer: H.E. Ouimette
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books