Edwin Miller Fogel Livres

As a facsimile reprint of an original antiquarian work, this book offers a glimpse into its historical context, though it may include imperfections like marks and notations due to its age. The commitment to preserving and promoting literature is evident, making this edition a valuable resource for those interested in cultural heritage. It combines affordability with high-quality reproduction, ensuring that readers can access and appreciate the original text's significance.

With this reprint of Edwin Miller Fogel's (1874-1949) major collection of Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans (1929), readers from both the United States and the German-speaking countries will once again have at their disposal a book that contains about two thousand proverbs derived from the oral tradition of the Pennsylvania Germans. Most of these German dialect proverbs were brought to America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by immigrants from the Rhenish Palatinate and southern Germany as well as northern Switzerland. The proverbs are ample proof that German folk speech is still in use among their descendants. This proverbial wisdom is of great sociolinguistic value for the study of an American minority as well as for comparative dialect and proverb studies. A detailed introduction and an extensive bibliography have been added by the editor.