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The names of John Gergen : immigrant identities in early twentieth-century St. Louis /

Rescued from the dumpster of a boarded-up house, the yellowing scraps of a young migrant's schoolwork provided Benjamin Moore with the jumping-off point for this study of migration, memory and identity. Centering on the compelling story of its eponymous subject, The Names of John Gergen examine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Benjamin, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Gergen, John, > 1908-1935.
Swabian Americans > Missouri > Saint Louis > Biography.
Immigrants > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Banat > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Soulard (Saint Louis, Mo.) > History.
Soulard (Saint Louis, Mo.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Soulard and its discontents (1903-1914)
  • Sorting the Albecks (1909-1910)
  • Becoming John Gergen (1910-1915)
  • 916A Allen Avenue (1916-1920)
  • "Have you a mother?" (1917-1918)
  • Beyond the walk from home to school (1920-1926)
  • Becoming John Albeck (1926-1930)
  • "Our dear son, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, nephew, and cousin" (1930-1935)
  • The forgetting (1935-1993).