Acknowledgments

Introduction

The German American Tradition Reconsidered

German? American? Literature?---Some Thoughts on the Problem of Question Marks and Hyphens

Literary Scholarship and Ethnic Studies: A Reevaluation

Part I: From Franz Daniel Pastorius to the Forty-Eighters

The Intellectual World of a Seventeenth-Century Jurist: Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Reconstruction of Pietist Thought

The Moravian Spiritual Autobiography: A Tale of Personal Faith or an Instrument of Community Discipline?

Personal Traits, Success, and Failure in Immigration: The Letters of the Van Dreveldts

Part II: Mysteries and the West

The Mysteries of Philadelphia in 1850: The German American Context

Unity and Diversity in Friedrich Gerstacker's Novels of North American Immigration

Literature and German-Language Publications in Texas

Part III: From 1848 to 1917

From German Cultural Criticism to Abolitionism. Ottilie Assing: ``Zealous to give vent to her gall''

The Man Who Became Weary of America: Ferdinand Kurnberger's Novel Der Amerika-Mude (1855)

Transatlantic Relations: The German Du Bois

Constituting a Public: German Jewish Contact, German American Theater, and the Formation of German American Ethnicity in the 1890s

Language Traitors, Translation, and Die Emigranten

Hugo Munsterberg's Life, Career and Photoplay: A Psychological Study

Part IV: Twentieth-Century Exiles and Immigrants

The Collector, the Educator, and the Humanist: Austrian Publishers and Book Dealers in the USA after 1938

``Homeless'': The Poetry of Anna Krommer

Simkhe: Yiddish Words of Love

Multilingualism and Metaphors of Musicality: Israel Zangwill, Jeannette Lander, Ferdinand Kurnberger

The Complications in Making an American Book of Poems about Germany

Same Place, Other Language: German Literature from America

List of Contributors