Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans

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.