Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

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Examines the knowledge and images of Native Americans conveyed through the art of Texas German Richard Petri.

Knowledge between Romanticism and Reverence: German-American Perceptions of Native Americans through the Art of Friedrich Richard Petri

Jacob Johnson and Taylor Mullins

Weiss introduces a miniseries on German migration to Texas and knowledge transfers that occurred between German settlers and Texans.

‘On to Texas’: An Introduction to the Miniseries on Texas Germans

Bohemian immigrant Anton Schwarz impacted brewing knowledge and practice in the US by introducing knowledge from Germany, especially. He founded the US Brewers' Academy and introduced brewing with adjuncts.

Migration and the Transatlantic Circulation of Brewing Knowledge: The Case of Anton Schwarz

Examines knowledge that radio programs made for Greek guest workers in West Germany conveyed and their role in creating an emotional community.

For Their Ears Only: Migrant Knowledge in the Greek Radio Programs for Gastarbeiter in West Germany

Maria Adamopoulou

Looks at travelogues and guidebooks available in two Baden libraries in the 1890s to determine the knowledge of the USA, and particularly of American women, presented therein.

‘Plant-like Women and Luxury Wives’—American Women in Nineteenth-century German Travelogues and Guides

Marie Nella Hoffmann

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.

The Latest News from the Other Side: ‘America’ in the Freiburger Zeitung of 1876

Anne-Christin Klotz has published a new book with De Gruyter, Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland, analyzing the Yiddish press in Poland, 1930-1941.

New Book from the Network: Yiddish Press in Poland in the Nazi Era

Anne-Christin Klotz

Klotz shows how Yiddish travelogues functioned as purveyors of knowledge about destination countries for potential Polish-Jewish refugees.

More than Tourism: Re-reading Yiddish Travelogues as Sources of Migrant Knowledge

Anne-Christin Klotz

Frei discusses the knowledge prospective Jesuit missionaries sought to gain before applying, and knowledge missionaries provided back home.

Missionary FAQs: The Migration of Knowledge about and from Early Modern Jesuit Missions

Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there.

European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism

Germans translated Buddhist texts in Germany, and they migrated to British Ceylon in order to get closer to Buddhism. Their Buddhist practices ended up changing Buddhism's relationship to texts in their South Asian home.

German Migrants and the Circulation of Buddhist Knowledge between Germany and British Ceylon

Sebastian Musch

Julie Weise asks how migrants responded to state-driven mandates to control and shape labor migration in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

In Sickness and in Health: Migrant Citizenships in the Postwar Years

The author expected to find files in Paris for his study of Franco-Yiddishness in the interwar period, but they had wandered elsewhere. His surprise led him to consider "the migratory history of knowledge and knowledge-making."

Following the Archives: Migrating Documents and their Changing Meanings