LIN 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sholem Aleichem, Hebrew Alphabet, Breaking Amish
12 May 2016
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1/3 of pennsylvania population was german in colonial times. Several southeastern penn. counties were almost entirely german-speaking. 1800s: rural german-speaking islands across the midwest and in texas. Urban little germanies in many cities (milwaukee, cincinnati, buffalo) Socially (poor and illiterate; wealthy and highly educated) Complex reality of the german-american: diverse: religiously (catholics-italians/polish; lutherans; anabaptists; jews) Highpoint of german in the u. s around 1910: 9 million americans used german actively = 10% of total u. s pop. Spanish: 2000 census: 28 million speaking spanish at home = 10. 7% of total u. s pop. Culture: 800 german-language newspapers and magazines published in the u. s. Thousands of churches (lutheran, catholic ) with service only in german: church schools (1800s-early 1900s): German-american children were educated in schools operated by a synod of the lutheran. Catholic church also ran many german-language schools in the u. s: public schools (after 1840): Virtually no laws regarding language of instruction before 1889; many public schools used.
