German New York City

by Richard Panchyk

Overview

German New York is an interesting history of the rich cultural heritage of this community.

German New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and turmoil of 19th- and 20th-century Europe for the promise of a better life in the bustling American metropolis. German immigration to New York peaked during the 1850s and again during the 1880s, and by the end of the 19th century New York had the third-largest German-born population of any city worldwide. German immigrants established their new community in a downtown Manhattan neighborhood that became known as Kleindeutschland or Little Germany. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, much of the German population moved north to the Upper East Side's Yorkville and subsequently spread out to the other boroughs of the city.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439620267
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Series:	Images of America Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	50 MB
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About the Author

Richard Panchyk is the author of 12 books and dozens of articles. His family left Germany for New York in 1866, and he has been studying German immigrants in New York City since 1992. Using photographs culled from his extensive collection of images and from the Library of Congress, the author offers a closer look at the German American experience in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6 Introduction 7
1 The Immigrant Experience 9
2 Places and Businesses 27
3 People 53
4 Religion and Education 73
5 Food and Drink 89
6 Culture and Recreation 103 Bibliography 126 Index 127

Editorial Reviews

Title: German New York City
Author: Staff Writer
Publisher: Book News, Inc.
Date: February 2010

This pictorial history of German immigrants who settled in New York City during the late 19th and early 20th centuries follows the movements of this population through the use of archival photographs from the Library of Congress and the author's own personal collection. Panchyk, a noted author, has been researching German immigrants since 1992, and his images of settlers and city landscapes through the decades capture the migration patterns from the Little Germany section of Manhattan to the surrounding boroughs and beyond. Photographs are organized according to such themes as religion and education, food and drink and culture and recreation.
(Annotation ©2009 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

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