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Newsletter Summer 2008 Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2008 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON, 901 UNIVERSITY BAY DR., MADISON, WI 53705 Collection Feature WHAT'S INSIDE: Gifts from the Past: Items Found between the Pages Director’s Corner. Page 2 of German-American Books by Kevin M. Kurdylo, MKI Librarian Notes from the Board. Page 2 A researcher seeking to trace his or her family history would feel Projects at blessed to find MKI: something in a The Heine German-language Diaries. Page 4 book handed down within the family. Oftentimes the most desired One million-mark bill, 1923. discovery would be a list of family members, a handwritten letter or poem, perhaps some photographs, or—wonder of wonders—the name Upcoming Events. of the town from which one’s ancestors came. Other than such valu- Page 5 Collection able information (or possibly large amounts of legal tender), what else Feature: Let's go to might one find within the pages of a book? All kinds of items are used 2008-2009the World's Friends Board of to mark one’s place or point to significant sections, and there is also the Directors.Fair! venerable tradition of pressing flowers and leaves between the pages of Page 10 Page 6 thick books. A few months ago MKI Friend Jacob Mar- Book Review: Two University tens donated two books that contain a fair of Missouri Press Publications Focus on Germans in the number of items kept between the pages. One State. is a Neue Illustrirte Familien Bibel, published Page 7 1875 in St. Louis by the St. Louis Bibel Pub- lications-Compagnie, and the other is In der Report on the 2008 MKI neuen Heimath. Geschichtliche Mittheilungen Friends Annual Meeting & über die deutschen Einwanderer in allen Dinner. Theilen der Union, edited by Anton Eichhoff Page 13 A pressed Continued on page 3 four-leaf clover. 2 3 Director’s Corner Notes from the Board by Cora Lee Kluge, MKI Director by Donald D. Zamzow Summer is here, and we rejoice! The new season As I stand in an elevator shortly after arriving in should bring a somewhat slower pace, at least in Pila (formerly Schneidemühl), a man greets me in theory, and we would like to sit back and catch up German. I return the greeting and ask, “Kast du a little. Rest and relaxation are not quite what we ok Platt snacken?” upon which he answers, “Joa! get, however, as activity in the Keystone House Von wo kömmst do hin?” “Von Amerika, oawe min does not let up. Our library and archives continue öllen sinn frühe von Hinterpommern ut wanderd.” to attract visitors, we get ready for German Fest, (“Can you speak Low German, too?” “Yes! Where we produce the summer Newsletter, and we are are you from?” “From America, all my ancestors busy with plans for the coming academic year. emigrated from Eastern Pomerania a long time Despite the fact that we are a little short on staff ago.”) The elevator reaches the ground floor and in the summer months, we are in business, just as we proceed to the dining room for dinner. We are always. traveling on a “Roots” tour of Germany and Po- The academic year is a time for us to take stock land. As my wife and I get up to leave the dining of what we have finished, but we also look for- room, we are suddenly surrounded by a dozen or ward to what we have ahead. Please join us for the so people all wanting to speak Plattdüütsch with MKI 25th Anniversary Kick-Off event on October these strange Platt-speaking Americans. We felt 23 with a lecture by Frank Trommler, Professor like some kind of specimens. The group was from Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania; attend Lower Saxony, also on tour, and for us, their Low our three-part lecture series on the German-Amer- German dialect was very easy to understand. For ican experience in October and November; come the next 15 minutes or so no standard German or to West Bend on November 1 for an international English was heard. There is an inexplicable feel- symposium on the Milwaukee painter Friedrich ing of familiarity that results when one speaks Continued on page 6 with total strangers in a common dialect. It’s as if you were speaking with neighbors whom you’ve known for years even though you’ve never before met. Earlier in the tour, we were being interviewed for Bremen radio by a Platt-speaking reporter who had The Newsletter of the Friends of the Max Kade Institute been alerted that we were in town. Then in Greifs- for German-American Studies is published quarterly at wald, a school teacher also interviewed us. She the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It is edited and produced by Kevin Kurdylo with the assistance of the was looking for emigration stories for her 12- to Newsletter Committee of the Board of Directors and is 13-year-old students who were fascinated by the printed by Great Graphics, Inc. The Newsletter appears exodus of so many people from Germany over the quarterly in March, June, September, and December. years. In the process, we also spoke a little Platt, Submissions are invited and should be sent directly to: and to our amazement, she informed us that Platt Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies had recently been introduced at the Kindergarten 901 University Bay Drive level in Greifswald. Madison, WI 53705 This summer the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Ger- Phone: (608) 262-7546 Fax: (608) 265-4640 man Public Television), will come to Wausau to Any submissions via email may be directed to produce a new episode of the series “Die Welt op [email protected] Platt,” to be called “Wisconsin op Platt.” Designed Visit the Max Kade Institute on the to be viewed by the north German TV audience, World Wide Web at: <http://mki.wisc.edu>. this program will represent a kind of family re- Blog: http://maxkade.blogspot.com union for our dialect. Continued on page 12 2 3 Collection Feature continued from page 1 band, and in the and published in third, well, look 1884 in New York at the picture by E. Steiger & Co. accompanying Jacob did not have this article to see any information on how her family the previous own- has grown! ers of these books, The only so let’s take a look other item at what we have to found within see if we can de- the pages of this duce anything about Bible that has a them. name upon it is The massive a death notice weight of a fam- for Joh. Gottfried Family photo found in the Bible. ily Bible makes it Kaufmann, who Photo found in the family the perfect instru- died at the age of 70 years, 7 months, and 29 days Bible. ment for pressing on January 25, 1892, in Waverly, Iowa. Described foliage, and this one served that function. Scattered in the notice as a beloved husband, father, and throughout its pages I found fern fronds, an oak leaf, grandfather, we can only wonder if Joh. Gottfried is a fan-shaped leaf that could be from a catalpa, and the older man in the group photograph. other small, reddish leaves. However, there is abso- Also found between the pages are two elaborate lutely no writing anywhere. The pages provided to cut-outs, one of a cherub with wings, whose hands document one’s family are left blank—no indica- are missing, and the other of a heron silhouette tion of marriages, births, or deaths. However, a few standing among reeds and cat-tails. The detailed photographs can still be seen in the windows at the cutting around the heron figure would indicate a back of the book (pages, interestingly, labeled—in certain degree of patience and a steady hand. English—for “Family Portraits”). Possibly there once Earlier I mentioned the possibility of finding were photos in nearly all of the sixteen available money within the pages of a book. This Bible windows, but only three remain now. On the back of does indeed contain many paper bills, but none each photo is the name of the photographer, which that are legal currency. We have a pre-inflationary provides us with at least one clue about the original 1910 German 100-mark note and a 1914 owner of this Bible—two bear the imprint “Photo- Darlehenskassenschein for five marks, and then graphie von Jac. Patotzka, Minden” and the third the inflationary bills: 100 marks (1920), 10,000 reads “J. Hülsenbeck, Minden.” A good guess would marks (1922), 50,000 marks (1922), 100,000 marks be that the folks in these photos lived in or near Min- (1923), 1,000,000 marks (1923), and 100,000,000 den, in North Rhine-Westphalia, and that the owner marks (1923). Then we have a 1924 ten-Reichs- of this Bible also came from that region. One woman mark bill issued by the Reichsbankdirektorium Ber- seems to appear in all three photos: in one she is lin during the Weimar Republic. Strangely enough, standing alone, in the second seated with her hus- Continued on page 8 The Friends of the Max Kade Institute Board of Directors Peter Arvedson (Treasurer), Elm Grove Fran Luebke (Secretary), Brookfield Hans Werner Bernet, Monroe Peter Monkmeyer (Asst. to the Treasurer), Madison Betsy Greene, Madison Antje Petty (ex officio), Madison Cora Lee Kluge (ex officio), Madison Karyl Rommelfanger (President), Manitowoc Ed Langer, Hales Corners Greg Smith, Beaver Dam Tom Lidtke, West Bend Ted E.
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