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Author : N. J. Kroeker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book First Mennonite Villages in Russia, 1789-1943 written by N. J. Kroeker and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. Rempel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442613181
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 written by David G. Rempel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-09-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Leonard G. Friesen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148750568X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union written by Leonard G. Friesen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted the many faces of modernity. He shows how the Mennonite minority remained engaged with the wider empire that surrounded them, and how they reconstructed and reconfigured their identity after the Bolsheviks seized power and formed a Soviet regime committed to atheism. Integrating Mennonite history into developments in the Russian Empire and the USSR, Friesen provides a history of an ethno-religious people that illuminates the larger canvas of Imperial Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history.
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442667737
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book A Mennonite in Russia written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Urry
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554113
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood written by James Urry and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and through different migrations to North America, James Urry’s meticulous research traces Mennonite links with kingdoms, empires, republics, and democratic nations in the context of peace, war, and revolution. Urry stresses a degree of Mennonite involvement in politics not previously discussed in literature, including Mennonite participation in constitutional reform and party politics, and shows the polarization of their political views from conservatism to liberalism and even revolutionary activities. Urry looks at the Mennonite reaction to politics and political events from the Reformation onwards and focuses particularly on those people who settled in Russia and their descendants who came to Manitoba. Using a wide variety of sources, Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood combines an inter-disciplinary approach to reveal that Mennonites, far from being the “Quiet in the Land,” have deep roots in politics.
Author : Paul R. Magocsi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442610212
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book A History of Ukraine written by Paul R. Magocsi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dotyczy m. in. Kresów wschodnich Rzeczypospolitej.
Author : Mark Jantzen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487525540
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book European Mennonites and the Holocaust written by Mark Jantzen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Mennonites and the Holocaust is one of the first books to examine Mennonite involvement in the Holocaust, sometimes as rescuers but more often as killers, accomplices, beneficiaries, and bystanders.
Author : Robert Glen Guenther
Publisher : Robert Guenther
ISBN 13 : 9780964147508
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Passionate Possessions of Faith written by Robert Glen Guenther and published by Robert Guenther. This book was released on 1994 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guenther family appears to have originated in Switzerland. Members of the family converted to the Anabaptist movement and were forced to flee first to Moravia and later to the valley of the Vistula in Poland and west Prussia. Eventually members of the family became Mennonites and moved to the Ukraine where a number of Germans were settling. One of the Guenthers to move there was Franz Günther (1827-1900) who married Maria Warkentin and was the father of six children. In 1878 Franz, Maria and four of their children immigrated to America. They settled in South Dakota where one of the children, Cornelius F. Guenther (185301934) married Eva Dürksen and was the father of fourteen children. Their many descendants live throughout the United States.
Author : Leonard G. Friesen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487501943
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Minority Report written by Leonard G. Friesen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume's contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine.
Author : James Urry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487547404
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book On Stony Ground written by James Urry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Stony Ground presents a historical ethnographic account of a generation of Mennonites from the Soviet Union who, following Russia’s revolution and civil war, immigrated to Manitoba during the 1920s. James Urry examines how they came to terms with a new land and with their new neighbours, including other Mennonites, Ukrainians, French Canadians, and Indigenous Peoples. The book discusses the impact of the Great Depression and how the immigrants struggled with their identity in Canada as Hitler and Stalin rose to power in Germany and the USSR. It reveals the immigrants’ desire to maintain their faith, language, and culture while encouraging their children to take advantage of an education conducted mainly in English. On Stony Ground explores how prosperity following the Second World War helped the immigrants to build a community in conjunction with others, including Mennonites and non-Mennonites, and to accept their new home in Canada.
Author : Karen Jensen
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480983829
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Never Come Back written by Karen Jensen and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Come Back By: Karen Jensen Never Come Back is a gold mine of anthropological/sociological information about a very distinct social-religious group of people. The determination with which these Mennonites faced and overcame countless obstacles is a wonder and inspiration. -Col. Thomas Snodgrass, USAF (retired); history professor at the Air War College, USA Air Force Academy and adjunct history professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona Follow Karen Jensen as she painstakingly uncovers her Mennonite roots in Prussia and Russia. It is an exciting story, not because it is a well-written novel, but because it is true! -Dr. William Varner, The Master’s University Karen Jensen grew up knowing she was living proof of her family’s miraculous survival. In Never Come Back, she shares her family’s extraordinary tale of deliverance and hope. In 1909, Aaron and Susanna Rempel were enjoying a peaceful life in Gnadenfeld, a Mennonite village in Russia. While wealthy, owning the first car the village had ever seen, the young family personified the Mennonite values of pacifism, hard work, and community. But World War I and Communist uprisings bankrupted the family, forcing them to Siberia. Despite being loyal citizens for a century, the Mennonites were at the mercy of the vicious Cheka secret police, the brutal Red Army, and savage bandits. Desperate to save his family, Aaron agreed to enlist in the Red Army in order to move his family back to Gnadenfeld. The family braved the deadly journey only to discover life in their village was just as brutal – neighbor betrayed neighbor and disease and famine were rampant. The Rempel family struggled to maintain their culture, but under the Bolshevik government, their lives were repeatedly threatened. In 1922, they began the long process of immigrating to America – a land of hope and freedom, but a journey that would be even more dangerous than what had come before. Rich with details of daily life as well as the horrors of war and Communism, Never Come Back is an intimate look at one family’s survival during the catastrophes of war and revolution.
Author : Werner Toews
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525533428
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Sketches From Siberia written by Werner Toews and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant biography of Jacob Davidovitch Sudermann, a teacher and artist from a Russian Mennonite community who, like so many others, fell victim to the bloodthirsty paranoia of the Stalinist purges and died in a Siberian gulag in 1937. Sketches from Siberia is pieced together from letters, sketches, and paintings done by Sudermann himself during his imprisonment as well as the unpublished memoir of his sister Anna. It was Anna and other family members that brought these documents with them when they immigrated to Canada in the late forties. This important biography also serves as a valuable cultural history of the plight of the Russian Mennonite community. At once moving and chilling, it is a story that shows the strength that lies at the heart of kindness, the light that outlives the darkness. A timely story even eighty years after Sudermann’s death, it reminds us of the plight of displaced communities around the world today that are struggling to survive.
Author : Karel C. Berkhoff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674020788
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Harvest of Despair written by Karel C. Berkhoff and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If I find a Ukrainian who is worthy of sitting at the same table with me, I must have him shot,” declared Nazi commissar Erich Koch. To the Nazi leaders, the Ukrainians were Untermenschen—subhumans. But the rich land was deemed prime territory for Lebensraum expansion. Once the Germans rid the country of Jews, Roma, and Bolsheviks, the Ukrainians would be used to harvest the land for the master race. Karel Berkhoff provides a searing portrait of life in the Third Reich’s largest colony. Under the Nazis, a blend of German nationalism, anti-Semitism, and racist notions about the Slavs produced a reign of terror and genocide. But it is impossible to understand fully Ukraine’s response to this assault without addressing the impact of decades of repressive Soviet rule. Berkhoff shows how a pervasive Soviet mentality worked against solidarity, which helps explain why the vast majority of the population did not resist the Germans. He also challenges standard views of wartime eastern Europe by treating in a more nuanced way issues of collaboration and local anti-Semitism. Berkhoff offers a multifaceted discussion that includes the brutal nature of the Nazi administration; the genocide of the Jews and Roma; the deliberate starving of Kiev; mass deportations within and beyond Ukraine; the role of ethnic Germans; religion and national culture; partisans and the German response; and the desperate struggle to stay alive. Harvest of Despair is a gripping depiction of ordinary people trying to survive extraordinary events.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of Mennonite Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Mennonite mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mennonite Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Dyck Family History Book Committee
Publisher : Winkler, Man. : Jacob Dyck Family History Book Committee
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Descendants of Jacob Dyck and Elisabeth Jaeger written by Jacob Dyck Family History Book Committee and published by Winkler, Man. : Jacob Dyck Family History Book Committee. This book was released on 1992 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dyck family likely came with the German migration to the Ukraine in 1788. Jacob Dyck (1800-1869) was born in Kronsgarten, Russia to Jacob and Anna Bartel Dyck. He married Elisabeth Jaeger and they had eight children. They later moved to Kronsthal, Russia. In the 1870's their children began immigrating to Manitoba, Canada. Descendants still live in Canada as well as the United States.
