Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 – Summer 1995

Cover: On the cover: Picture of a typical Volga German musical group; Ellis County, Kansas, 1903. The instruments were the kind used for playing folk songs.

Content:

“Folklore Forum-Oral Folklore, Customary Folklore, and Material Folk Traditions: Towards a Typology of German-Russian Folklore” by Timothy J. Kloberdanz

“Ethnic and German Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union Since 1989” by Eric J. Schmaltz

“From God’s Lost Crop” by Ronald Vossler

“The Fate of My Village and My Family” by Alvina Dietrich, translated by Jo Ann Kuhr

“A Journey to Our Ancestral Village, Basel on the Volga” by Edythe F. Robinson

“In Lieb und Lied: The Stories of my Great-Grandparents” by Irmgard Hein Ellingson

“Preserving Your Family Artifacts” by George Miller and John Schleicher