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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Gillhoff, Johannes |
| Title, Monographic | Letters of a German American Farmer: Juernjakob Swehn Travels to America |
| Edition or Version | Translated by Richard Lorenz August Trost |
| Place of Publication | Iowa City |
| Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
| Date of Publication | 2000 |
| Extent of Work | xvi, 180 |
| Abstract | From back cover: "Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by immigrants from Mecklenburg, Germany, Johannes Gillhoff created the archetypal character of Juernjakob Swehn: the upright, honest mensch who personified the German immigrant. This farmer-hero--planting and harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during he snowy winters, building a church with his own hands--proved so popular with the German public that a million copies of Juernjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer are in print. Now for the first time this wise and endearing book is available in English." |
| Notes | Donated by Prof. Jim Leary |
| Call Number | MKI/MEM PT 2613 .I63 J8613 2000 |
| MKI Terms | Letters/ Personal narratives/ Atlantic crossing/ Immigrants, German/ Iowa/ Biographies/ Fiction/ Immigrants in literature/ German Americans -- Iowa |