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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Yoder, Don |
| Title, Analytic | The 'Dutchman' and the 'Deitschlenner': The New World Confronts the Old |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1988 |
| Volume ID | 23 |
| Location in Work | 1-17 |
| Abstract | By the middle of the nineteenth century in North America, there were two separate German-speaking worlds: the Pennsylvania Dutch and the German immigrant, known by the Pennsylvania Dutch as the "Deitschlenner." These groups came into contact with each other in Pennsylvania, the Midwest, and Ontario, and increasingly so in the second half of the nineteenth century. While the Pennsylvania Dutch had become Americanized by 1850, both in politics and general outlook, the German immigrants were developing a distinctly German-American culture. While the Pennsylvania Dutchman had long ago given up interest in Europe, the newcomers tried to be "Germans in America." The author concludes that the contact between the two groups resulted in the following influences: (1) the immigrant Germans who settled in Pennsylvania in the nineteenth century served the existing Pennsylvania Dutch culture in industry, business, church and the press; (2) the immigrant Germans enriched Pennsylvania Dutch folklore; and, most importantly, (3) the presence of the immigrant Germans stimulated the Pennsylvania Dutch to decide who they were, ethnically speaking. They saw that they were not "Germans in America" nor "German-Americans," but Pennsylvania Dutch, different in almost every aspect of their culture. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans/ 19th century/ Immigrants, German |