The Coming of the Russian Mennonites
Author: C. Henry Smith
Publisher: Berne, Ind. : Mennonite Book Concern
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 322
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Author: C. Henry Smith
Publisher: Berne, Ind. : Mennonite Book Concern
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 322
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Published: 1927
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fred Richard Belk
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2000-10-17
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1579105068
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1442667737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Wally Kroeker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2005-04-01
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 1680992449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes -- in exchange for exemption from military service -- Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and Europe. Nearly all retain memories and stories from that place -- unbelievable prosperity for some; unspeakable terror for many; church tensions; struggles between the landed and the landless; exquisite clockmaking, storytelling, musicmaking, and food. Himself a Russian Mennonite, Kroeker heads into the history, but also the later movement of these people to the U.S. and Canada. Are they at all distinctive today? What has drawn some to the cities and professions, and others to the rural prairies? What about those in Europe, and those still in the former Soviet Union? Kroeker tells it all with vibrancy -- the overview and the memorable details. Includes dozens of historic and contemporary photographs. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author: C. Henry Smith
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonas Smucker Hartzler
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 185
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMennonites in the World War (Non-Resistance Under Test) is a historical work by Jonas Smucker Hartzler, American Mennonite minister and teacher. The Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496-1561) of Friesland. The author initially provides an insight in the early history of the Mennonite Church and their involvement in other wars, previous to the WWI. The rest of the work covers various issues Mennonites had to deal with during the Great War, starting with non-resistant nature of their doctrine.
Author: C. Henry Smith
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Abraham Friesen
Publisher: Kindred Productions
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9781894791076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Zacharias
Publisher: Studies in Immigration and Cul
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780887557477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.