The Coming of the Russian Mennonites
Author | : C. Henry Smith |
Publisher | : Berne, Ind. : Mennonite Book Concern |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Mennonites |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : C. Henry Smith |
Publisher | : Berne, Ind. : Mennonite Book Concern |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Mennonites |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1442667737 |
In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history. Such truths abound in the diaries of Jacob Epp, a Russian Mennonite school-teacher, lay minister, farmer, and village secretary in southern Ukraine. This abridged translation of his diaries offers a remarkably vivid picture of Mennonite community life in Imperial Russia during a period of troubled change. Epp’s writings reveal a skilled and honest diarist of deep feelings, and tell a human story that no conventional historical account could hope to equal. The diaries overflow with the details of his workaday world. Family, village, church, and community routines are broken by trips to market, visits to other Mennonite settlements, and a memorable steamer voyage to boomtown Odessa on the Black Sea. He chronicles his long-time involvement in an unusual Imperial experiment in which Mennonites were “model farmers” in Jewish villages. Harvey L. Dyck places the diaries in their historical, ethnocultural, social, religious, economic, and political settings. Based on archival research, interviews, travels, and consultations with other scholars, his detailed and perceptive introduction and analysis trace Jacob Epp’s life and present a sketch and interpretation of his larger family, community, and Imperial world. With striking clarity the diaries and introduction together re-create a time and way of life marked by controversy and flux. They reflect significant facets of the experience of ethno-religious minorities in Imperial Russia and of the development of the southern Ukrainian frontier. Above all, they fill significant missing pages of the great community-centred story of Russian Mennonite life. This book is richly illustrated with maps, black-and-white photographs, and watercolour paintings by Cornelius Hildebrand, Jacob Epp’s former village school pupil and later brother-in-law.
Author | : Fred Richard Belk |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2000-10-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1579105068 |
Author | : Arthur Kroeger |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2007-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780888644732 |
In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
Author | : Robert Zacharias |
Publisher | : Studies in Immigration and Cul |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780887557477 |
"Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the fall of the Mennonite Commonwealth of the 1920s and its subsequent migration of 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada. This privileging of a seminal dispersal, or "break event," within the broader historic narrative has come to function as a mythological beginning or origin story for the Russian Mennonite community in Canada, and serves as a means of affirming a communal identity across national and generational boundaries.
Author | : Helmut T. Huebert |
Publisher | : Kindred Productions |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780920643099 |
Author | : James Urry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Mennonites are heirs to the Anabaptist movement of the Reformation period in Western and Central Europe. Mennonite groups from what is today the Netherlands and northwestern Germany settled in Danzig (Gdansk) and Polish-Prussia from the sixteenth century on-wards. At the end of the eighteenth century large numbers of their descendants began to emigrate to the southern steppes of the Ukraine, a movement which continued well into the nineteenth century. This book deals with the first century of Russian Mennonite settlement, and the dynamics of change in Mennonite communities in Russia between 1789 and 1889. It chronicles the establishment in southern Russia of prosperous agrarian colonies, the foundation of religious congregations and the creation of new economic, social and political institutions. Mennonites in Russia had to face the dual challenge of the emergence of a modern, industrial society and the increasing power of the Russian State. As Mennonites responded to these challenges, and some grew rich and successful, tension and conflict in their communities increased. This resulted in the division of congregations and communities and the further emigration of many Mennonites to North America." -- Back cover
Author | : David G. Rempel |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802036392 |
Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony in 1789.