Older Works
Kurt Simon: Businessman and Benefactor
In 1930,when he was only sixteen years old, Kurt Simon left his village of Enkirch on the Mosel River in Germany. He came to South Bend, Indiana, where his cousins owned Simon Brothers, a wholesale grocery company.
Step by step Kurt worked his way up to become its President in 1962. Under his leadership Simon Brothers grew into the area’s premier supplier of institutional foods and supplies.
Kurt was a major philanthropist and benefactor to his chosen community, supporting a long list of both Jewish and non-Jewish institutions. However, he sees it as his greatest accomplishment to have rescued his family out of Hitler’s Germany in 1937.
Wolfson Press, Expanded ed, 2009
Life In Letters
A correspondence between families in Bavaria and South Bend, Indiana, from the mid-18th to early nineteenth century.
The correspondence stretches over decades, showing detailed changes in both public and private life in Arzberg and South Bend.
Max Kade German-American Center, 2006. Genealogist Erwin Scherer from Arzberg helped with the old script.
A Private Mythology: The Manuscripts and Plays of John Whiting
The incoherence, violence and moodiness of John Whiting’s plays may fit our time even better than when he wrote them in the 1950’s and early 60’s.
Some of his best known plays are:
Saint’s Day, Marching Song, The Devils, and the delightful comedy A Penny for a Song.
Associated University Presses, 1988