I have been tracing my family for some years, including the Roggenbucks. (Roggenburk is a variant adopted by those Roggenbucks who emigrated to the Cleveland area.) My great grandfather Albert emigrated from Flötenstein, a small town three quarters of the way along a line from Berlin to Danzig, where many Roggenbucks lived. Flötenstein was in […]
This article by Nancy Goebel first appeared in Texas Highways in February 1985. The unincorporated little village of Serbin, nestled amid wooded environs along a winding farm-to-market road east of Austin, rarely appears on highway maps. So travelers whisk by, unaware that they’re passing through a unique ethnic region of Texas. Serbin is the heartland
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This article by Marguerite Johnston first appeared in the Houston Chronicle on Friday, 31 October 1966. Note: John Kilian’s grandson did not succeed him as pastor. Gerhard became the teacher. The road climbs and dips through pine woods from LaGrange toward Giddings, and the French mulberry bushes were royal purple in the sunshine. We paused in Warda
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The Sorbian Hymn by Dr. Gerald Stone first appeared in 1993 in Perspektiven sorbischer Literatur (ed. W. Koschmal), 79-95. Cologne-Weimar-Vienna: Böhlau. THE SORBIAN HYMN 1 A belief in the importance of secularization in literary history has caused the Sorbian hymn to receive less attention than it deserves, even though
None of the following is in the Bodleian catalogue: 1. Duchomny wopor Wjernych Kschesczijanow, aby Kyrlischowe Knihi (Budyšin, 1734). 2. (bound under same cover as 1.) To nutyrne Dzjecżo Boże… wot Jana Böhmerja (Budyšin, 1733)=Das andächtige Kind Gottes (bilingual edition). 3. Sserske Spiwarske Knigly… Nowy pschegledany a poreżeny Hudawk (Grodk=Spremberg, 1881). 4. Benjamina Schmolki ton
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Books 1971: Lexical changes in the Upper Sorbian literary language during and following the national awakening (=Lětopis Instituta za serbski ludospyt 18/1). Bautzen/Budyšin: Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina 1972: The smallest Slavonic nation: the Sorbs of Lusatia. London: Athlone Press 1995: (ed.) Kěrluše (=Serbska poezija 37), Bautzen/Budyšin: Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina 1996: (ed.) Kjarliže (Serbska poezija 39), Bautzen/Budyšin:
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On this Memorial Day weekend, it causes one to wonder how the men who were sent overseas reacted to fighting against people from the Fatherland. I recall how that on the 75th anniversary of the Texas District, I wrote a fictional scenario of a German/Wend by the name of Moerbe who was sent to Germany
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Feb. 4: A few things to be announced from our area. The overall health conditions here are serious, with colds, pneumonia, as well as small pox are now in large numbers. From all indications, they will not disappear very quickly, since the unfavorable weather does not provide very good conditions. Recently, in the
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Valued Editor! After a prolonged silence, I would like to report something again from our community, and it is as follows: On last Thursday, 8 days ago, Mr. Pobran died, and was given a Christian burial on Friday by Pastor Buchschacher. In spite of the day, a large number of friends and relatives
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Dear Editor! Since there has been nothing to write about for such a long time, I now want to send a few lines. On the 28th of the month, last Friday, there was a big fish fry on Mr. Michael Pietsch’s farm on the Colorado River. It had to take a lot of fish
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