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The domestic life and characteristics of the Pennsylvania-German pioneer : a narrative and critical history ; prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German Society

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Author: Schantz, F. J. F.

Date of Publication: 1900.

Call Number: 390 S299

Responsibility: by F.J.F. Schantz.

Author: Schantz, F. J. F.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [New Era Printing Co.],

Date of Publication: 1900.

Physical Description: 95 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Also found in Pennsylvania German Society, v.10.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania-German Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 390 S299

Pennsylvania Dutch : the story of an American language

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Author: Louden, Mark Laurence,

Date of Publication: 2016.

Call Number: 427.9748 L886

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Responsibility: Mark L. Louden.

ISBN: 9781421418285 (hardback : acidfree paper); 1421418282 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

Author: Louden, Mark Laurence,

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication: 2016.

Physical Description: xxii, 473 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series: Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-455) and index.

Summary: "While most world languages spoken by minority populations are in serious danger of becoming extinct, Pennsylvania Dutch is thriving. In fact, the number of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers is growing exponentially, although it is spoken by less than one-tenth of one percent of the United States population and has remained for the most part an oral vernacular without official recognition or support. A true sociolinguistic wonder, Pennsylvania Dutch has been spoken continuously since the late eighteenth century, even though it has never been "refreshed" by later waves of immigration from abroad.In this probing study, Mark L. Louden, himself a fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, provides readers with a close look at the place of the language in the life and culture of two major subgroups of speakers: the "Fancy Dutch," whose ancestors were affiliated mainly with Lutheran and German Reformed churches, and conservative Anabaptist sectarians known as the "Plain people"--the Old Order Amish and Mennonites.Drawing on scholarly literature, three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documents--most of which have never before been made accessible to English-speaking readers--this is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at this unlikely linguistic success story"--

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; German Americans - Pennsylvania; Languages in contact - Pennsylvania.; Berks County (Pa.) - Languages.; Berks County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 427.9748 L886

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Farming, always farming : a photographic essay of rural Pennsylvania German land and life

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Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Responsibility: made by H. Winslow Fegley ; [introduction, Scott T. Swank ; captions, Alan G. Keiser, Frederick S. Weiser].

Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Place of Publication: Birdsboro, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ;

Notes: "Photographs from the collection of the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania."; Bibliography: p. 30.

Subjects: Fegley, H. Winslow - 1871-1944 - Photography collections.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Berks County; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Pennsylvania - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Swank, Scott T.; Keyser, Alan G.; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Additional Corporate Author: Schwenkfelder Library.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Celebrating the Pennsylvania Germans : the Kunkel family fracturs

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Author: Breininger, Lester P.

Date of Publication: c1997

Call Number: 740 B835

Author: Breininger, Lester P.

Place of Publication: Reading, PA

Publisher: Friends of the Reading Museum,

Date of Publication: c1997

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.), map ; 22 x 29 cm.

Notes: Title from cover.; Text by Lester P. Breininger.

Subjects: Kunkel family.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Birth certificates - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country.; Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 740 B835

Pennsylvania German fraktur and printed broadsides : a guide to the collections in the Library of Congress

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Corporate Author: Library of Congress.

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 740 P415L

Responsibility: compiled by Paul Conner [sic] & Jill Roberts for the American Folklife Center ; introduction by Don Yoder.

ISBN: 0844406007

Corporate Author: Library of Congress.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Library of Congresss : For sale by the American Folklife Center,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Series: Publications of the American Folklife Center ;

Notes: Includes indexes.; Bibliography: p. 46-47.

Subjects: Library of Congress - Catalogs.; Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch; Broadsides - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Additional Author: Connor, Paul.; Roberts, Jill.

Additional Corporate Author: American Folklife Center.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 740 P415L

The Pennsylvania Dutch and their cookery : their history, art, accomplishments, also a broad collection of their food recipes

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Author: Frederick, J. George

Date of Publication: 1946, c1935

Call Number: 641.5 F852 1946

Responsibility: by J. George Frederick.

Author: Frederick, J. George

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Business Bourse,

Date of Publication: 1946, c1935

Physical Description: 275 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Includes index to recipes.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-85).

Contents: I. The Old-World background of the Pennsylvania Dutch -- II. Regional cookery and the Pennsylvania Dutch.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Art, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Cookery, American - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 641.5 F852 1946

The ABC books of the Pennsylvania Germans

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Author: Klinefelter, Walter,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v.7

Alternate Title: Abraham Harley Cassel, nineteenth century Pennsylvania German American book collector; Marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, 1748-1767

Responsibility: [by] Walter Klinefelter. Abraham Harley Cassel, nineteenth century Pennsylvania German American book collector [by] Marlin L. Heckman. Marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, 1748-1767 [by] Fritz Braun and Frederick S. Weiser.

Author: Klinefelter, Walter,

Place of Publication: Breinigsville

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Physical Description: viii, 299 p. illus. 24 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ;

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Cassel, Abraham Harley, - 1820-1908.; German language; Pennsylvania Dutch; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Heckman, Marlin L.; Braun, Fritz.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v.7

Traditional food on the commerical market: the history of Pennsylvania scrapple

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Author: Ellis, Susan J.

Call Number: 905.748 PDF v.22

Responsibility: by Susan J. Ellis.

Author: Ellis, Susan J.

Physical Description: 10-21 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Folklife, v.22, (Autumn 1972-Summer 1973).

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PDF v.22

Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans; a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English

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Author: Aurand, A. Monroe

Edition: Revised Edition.

Date of Publication: 1939.

Call Number: 437.9748 A927 Rev

Responsibility: by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.

Author: Aurand, A. Monroe

Edition: Revised Edition.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Privately printed : The Aurand press,

Date of Publication: 1939.

Physical Description: 32 pages 22 cm

Subjects: Pennsylvania German dialect.; Pennsylvania German dialect - Glossaries, vacabularies, etc.; English language - Pennsylvania - Glossaries, vacabularies, etc.; English language - Pennsylvania - Humor.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch - Humor.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 437.9748 A927 Rev

Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans : a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English

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Author: Aurand, A. Monroe

Edition: 6th printing.

Date of Publication: c1939.

Call Number: 437.9748 A927 6th

Responsibility: by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.

Author: Aurand, A. Monroe

Edition: 6th printing.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Privately Printed : the Aurand Press,

Date of Publication: c1939.

Physical Description: 32 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Title says 6th Edition.

Subjects: Pennsylvania German dialect; Pennsylvania German dialect - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; English language - Pennsylvania - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; English language - Pennsylvania - Humor.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Humor.; Pennsylvania Dutch

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 437.9748 A927 6th

God bless this house : the printed house blessings (Haus-Segen) of the Pennsylvania Germans 1780-1921

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Author: Earnest, Russell D.,

Date of Publication: 2015.

Call Number: 745.67 E12

Responsibility: Russell D. Earnest, Corinne P. Earnest, and Patricia Earnest Suter.

ISBN: 1879311224; 9781879311220

Author: Earnest, Russell D.,

Place of Publication: Clayton, DE

Publisher: Russell D. Earnest Associates,

Date of Publication: 2015.

Physical Description: 128 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.; An example of a house blessing can be found here: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/5861

Summary: This book features printed house blessings, a type of Pennsylvania German broadside that is often classified with fraktur because major fraktur artists decorated them. In fact, as God Bless This House points out, few fraktur artists made freehand examples of these blessings, but some artists designed press-printed examples, and many others added color and freehand artwork to printed sheets.

Subjects: Printing - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Broadsides - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Pennsylvania Dutch; Folk religion - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country.; House blessings - Pennsylvania.; German Americans; Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

Additional Author: Earnest, Corinne P.,; Suter, Patricia,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 745.67 E12

The Conestoga Wagon : a Pennsylvania German product

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Author: Frey, Howard C.,

Date of Publication: 1947

praises would have been eulogized even beyond the imagination of a New Englander. In Pennsylvania German com- munities, where farming, farm exporting and wagoning have been given the greatest amount of attention for generations, folks are prone to sit idly by, or to be so busily engaged in agricultural

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Responsibility: by H. C. Frey.

Author: Frey, Howard C.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1947

Physical Description: [61]-[92] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 3

Subjects: Blacksmithing.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Carriages and carts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Ironwork.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 3 (1947), p. 61-92Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51

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Winter holidays in the Dutch country: some early Christmases in Manheim

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Author: Kendig, John D.

Call Number: 905.748 PDF v.31

Responsibility: by John D. Kendig.

Author: Kendig, John D.

Physical Description: 64-68 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Folklife, v.31 (Autumn 1981-Summer 1982).

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Christmas - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Manheim (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PDF v.31

The English Pennsylvania Dutch dictionary : a glossary of English words and expressions with their Pennsylvania Dutch equivalents : together with an illustrated compilation of many unique and fascinating facets of the wonderful Pennsylvania Dutch people and their historical background, including their culture and customs, arts and crafts, folklore and folkways

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Author: Snader, Howard,

Date of Publication: c1965.

Call Number: 437 S669

Responsibility: by Howard Snader [and Ann Hark].

Author: Snader, Howard,

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Publisher: Culinary Arts Press,

Date of Publication: c1965.

Physical Description: 96, [4] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: "Parts of this book were originally published as a Glossary of Pennsylvania Dutch words, c1949, and by House & garden magazine, June 1941"--P. [4].

Subjects: English language - Dictionaries; Pennsylvania German dialect.; Pennsylvania Dutch

Additional Author: Hark, Ann.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 437 S669

To the latest posterity : Pennsylvania-German family registers in the Fraktur tradition

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Author: Earnest, Corinne P.

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 740 E12t

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Responsibility: Corinne and Russell Earnest.

ISBN: 0271023686 (alk. paper)

Author: Earnest, Corinne P.

Place of Publication: University Park

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: xxi, 153 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 37. Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 4

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.; Pennsylvania Dutch

Additional Author: Earnest, Russell D.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 740 E12t

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Helen Reimensnyder Martin's "caricatures" of the Pennsylvania Germans

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Author: Seaton, Beverly.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v. 104

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Responsibility: by Beverly Seaton.

Author: Seaton, Beverly.

Physical Description: p. 86 - 95.

Notes: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 104, no. 1 (January 1980).; This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.

Subjects: Martin, Helen Reimensnyder - Criticism and interpretation.; Pennsylvania Dutch; German Americans - Pennsylvania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v. 104

Websites

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The Pennsylvania German broadside : a history and guide

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Author: Yoder, Don.

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 398.089 Y54

Responsibility: Don Yoder.

ISBN: 0271026790 (acidfree paper)

Author: Yoder, Don.

Place of Publication: University Park, PA

Publisher: Penn State University Press for the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: xviii, 367 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 39. Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 6

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Song and ballad broadsides -- The broadside and customs of the year -- Political and military broadsides -- Medical broadsides -- Sale bills, advertisements, and bookplates -- Dialect broadsides and community events -- Religious broadsides -- House-blessings and heaven-letters -- The broadside and the rites of passage -- Prints : the picture world of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

Summary: "Fifteenth-century Germany was the birthplace of movable type and of one of its powerful consequences, the broadside. These mass-produced printed sheets allowed both the Renaissance and the Reformation to spread with previously unimaginable speed, and when German immigrants made their way to North America, the cultural significance of the broadside followed.The author defines a broadside as any piece of paper printed on one side that is intended to be given away or sold. Where some experts have narrowed the definition of the broadside to focus primarily on song and ballad broadsides, Professor Yoderâ€™s definition encompasses a much wider range of material. In this more comprehensive approach to the medium, not only â€œstreet literatureâ€ but also such documents as elegies, spiritual testaments, and certificates of birth, baptism, confirmation, and marriage are all considered legitimate broadsides that tie the individual to the culture of the community. After tracing the migration of the broadside from Germany to America, the author dedicates each of ten chapters to a specific broadside subject." [publisher's comments]

Subjects: Printing - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Broadsides - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Pennsylvania Dutch; German Americans

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 398.089 Y54

The printed birth and baptismal certificates of the German Americans

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Author: Stopp, Klaus.

Date of Publication: c1997-

Call Number: 740 S883

Alternate Title: BBCs

Responsibility: by Klaus Stopp.

ISBN: 3000008330 (v. 1); 3000013571 (v. 2)

Author: Stopp, Klaus.

Place of Publication: Mainz, Germany ; East Berlin, PA : East Berlin, PA (P.O. Box 1007, East Berlin 17316)

Publisher: K. Stopp ; Available from Russell D. Earnest Associates,

Date of Publication: c1997-

Physical Description: v. <1-2 > : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: v. 1. General part: forms anonymously published, Pennsylvania, Allentown, Bath -- v. 2. Pennsylvania: Carlisle-Hanover -- v.3. Pennsylvania: Harrisburg-Philadelphia

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Decorative arts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Baptismal certificates - Pennsylvania; Birth certificates - Pennsylvania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 740 S883

The language and culture of the Pennsylvania Germans : a Festschrift for Earl C. Haag

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Date of Publication: 2010.

Call Number: 325.243 K26

Responsibility: ed. by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.

Place of Publication: Topeka, KS

Publisher: Soc. for German-American Studies,

Date of Publication: 2010.

Physical Description: 237 S. : Ill., Notenbeisp.

Series: Yearbook of German-American studies : Supplemental issues ; 3

Notes: Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.; From the editor -- A Fraktur tribute to Professor Earl C. Haag / Peter V. Fritsch -- A tribute to a friend and fellow scholar / C. Richard Beam -- Ernest Waldo Bechtel (1923-88): the leading Pennsylvania poet of his generation / C. Richard Beam -- The first college course in Pennsylvania German / William W. Donner -- Reverend Howard J. Frey's Pennsylvania German service at Swamps Community Chapel in Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, 29 September 1984 / K.A. "Butch" Reigart -- A letter defining Old Order Mennonite worship in the nineteenth century / Amos B. Hoover -- New directions in a traditional Pennsylvania German healing practice: a twenty-first century powwower / David W. Kriebel -- Language and otherness: popular fiction and the Amish / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner -- An Amish mortuary ritual at the intersection of cultural anthropology and lexicography / Joshua R. Brown -- "Mir schwetze noch die Mudderschprooch!": zur Geschichte und Zukunft des Pennsylvaniadeutschen in den USA / Michael Werner -- Pennsylvania German in Lyndon, Kansas: variation, change, decline / Michael R. DeHaven -- Solving the preacher's dilemma: communication strategies in Old Order Amish sermons / JÃ¶rg Meindl -- The comprehensive Pennsylvania German dictionary brings back memories / Jennifer L. Trout -- Kucheheiser: cake and mead shop traditions / Alan G. Keyser -- Der Schtruwwelpitter: Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, dutchified by Earl C. Haag / Walter Sauer -- An 1857 version of the Schnitzelbank-Song from Basel, Switzerland / William D. Keel -- Revisiting Aunt Hannah: African-American folk humor in nineteenth-century Lancaster County / Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Wortfindungsprobleme im Sprachgebrauch von Minderheitensprechern / Elisabeth Knipf-KomlÃ³si -- FrÃ¼hes deutsches Stadtbuch, Landgeschichte, Mundarten: Geistig-religiÃ¶se StrÃ¶mungen in Europa vor der Entdeckung Amerikas / Helmut Protze -- Contributors.; On front of front flyleaf: "Compliments of C. Richard Beam, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University.; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: German Americans.; German language / Dialects.; Pennsylvania Dutch.; Pennsylvania Dutch / Folklore.; German language; Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvaniadeutsch.; Pennsylvaniadeutsche.; Aufsatzsammlung.

Additional Author: Haag, Earl C.; Keel, William D.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 325.243 K26

The distelfink country of the Pennsylvania Dutch

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Author: Jordan, Mildred,

Date of Publication: c1978.

Call Number: 917.48 J82d

Responsibility: by Mildred Jordan ; illustrated by Howard Berelson.

ISBN: 0517532603; 9780517532607

Author: Jordan, Mildred,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Crown Publishers,

Date of Publication: c1978.

Physical Description: xxx, 258 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Summary: "Mildred Jordan, a longtime student of the Pennsylvania Dutch, tells us the fascinating story of their customs and traditions, the history of their different sects, their distinctive dialect, and their rich heritage of folklore and tales. She depicts the Plain sect - the Mennonites, the Amish, the Schwenkfelders, the Moravians, and the Brethren, and the church people - the Lutheran and German Reformed sects. All the important developments unique to the Pennsylvania Dutch society are described. Here are their delicious cuisine (with many recipes), their architecture, their superstitions, their farming and gardening innovations. Sprinkled throughout the book are amusing and affectionate anecdotes that will bring the reader closer to this interesting and enduring society. A final chapter attempts to peer into the future of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Here is a group of remarkable human beings with a great zest for living. And for anyone who wonders what a distelfink is - this symbol of the Pennsylvania Dutch countryside - its charming story can be found in these pages." [from the book jacket]

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Christian sects - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania Dutch (Ethnie)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.48 J82d

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The domestic life and characteristics of the Pennsylvania-German pioneer : a narrative and critical history ; prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German Society

Pennsylvania Dutch : the story of an American language

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Farming, always farming : a photographic essay of rural Pennsylvania German land and life

Celebrating the Pennsylvania Germans : the Kunkel family fracturs

Pennsylvania German fraktur and printed broadsides : a guide to the collections in the Library of Congress

The Pennsylvania Dutch and their cookery : their history, art, accomplishments, also a broad collection of their food recipes

The ABC books of the Pennsylvania Germans

Traditional food on the commerical market: the history of Pennsylvania scrapple

Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans; a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English

Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans : a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English

God bless this house : the printed house blessings (Haus-Segen) of the Pennsylvania Germans 1780-1921

The Conestoga Wagon : a Pennsylvania German product

Documents

Winter holidays in the Dutch country: some early Christmases in Manheim

To the latest posterity : Pennsylvania-German family registers in the Fraktur tradition

Websites

Helen Reimensnyder Martin's "caricatures" of the Pennsylvania Germans

Websites

The Pennsylvania German broadside : a history and guide

The printed birth and baptismal certificates of the German Americans

The language and culture of the Pennsylvania Germans : a Festschrift for Earl C. Haag

The distelfink country of the Pennsylvania Dutch