‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge
Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale.
Rübelmann’s Letters: Knowledge Transfer through Emigrant Correspondence
Analyzes the content of a collection of letters from a Baden emigrant to America to determine the knowledge he shared back home.
The Latest News from the Other Side: ‘America’ in the <em>Freiburger Zeitung</em> of 1876
Analyzes the news items pertaining to America from all issues of the Freiburger Zeitung of 1876 in the context of the press of that era.
Through the Information Jungle Towards the ‘Land of Freedom’: Images of ‘America’ in German Magazines in the 1870s and 1880s
Analyzes the knowledge of America presented in the popular late 19th-c. German magazines Die Gartenlaube and Deutscher Hausschatz.
A Cautionary Tale: Baden’s Late Nineteenth-Century Textbooks and Their Portrayal of America
Compares two textbooks for schoolchildren in Baden in the late nineteenth century and presents the ideas they conveyed about the US.
What Did They Know?: An Introduction to the Miniseries
Introduces a 6-part miniseries analyzing 6 sources of knowledge of the US for prospective migrants in Baden in the late 19th century.
New Book from the Network: Central European Jewish Socialist Refugees in the US
Joseph Malherek has recently published the book Free-Market Socialists with Central European University Press. He also contributed an article to Dynamics of Emigration, edited by Stefan Berger and Philipp Müller and published by Berghahn Books.
New Book from the Network: Yiddish Press in Poland in the Nazi Era
Anne-Christin Klotz has published a new book with De Gruyter, Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland, analyzing the Yiddish press in Poland, 1930-1941.
More than Tourism: Re-reading Yiddish Travelogues as Sources of Migrant Knowledge
Klotz shows how Yiddish travelogues functioned as purveyors of knowledge about destination countries for potential Polish-Jewish refugees.
News from the Network
News from Migrant Knowledge Network members and news about other events associated with the network. Members are invited to share theirs as well.
