A Mennonite In Russia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442667730

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A Mennonite in Russia by Anonim Pdf

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 : David G. Rempel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442613188

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A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 by David G. Rempel Pdf

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 : Arthur Kroeger
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0888644736

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Hard Passage by Arthur Kroeger Pdf

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 : Wally Kroeker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781680992441

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Introduction to Russian Mennonites by Wally Kroeker Pdf

Mennonites 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 : Paul Toews,Aileen Friesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986812323

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The Russian Mennonite Story by Paul Toews,Aileen Friesen Pdf

Author : Leonard G. Friesen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487514273

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Minority Report by Leonard G. Friesen Pdf

The history of the Black Sea littoral, an area of longstanding interest to Russia, provides important insight into Ukraine as a contemporary state. In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume’s contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine. This volume engages scholars from Ukraine, Russia, and North America, and includes translated and accessible contributions by scholars from the Ukrainian-German Institute of Dnipropetrovsk State University. Minority Report is divided into four sections: New Approaches to Mennonite History; Imperial Mennonite Isolationism Revisited; Mennonite Identities in Diaspora; and Mennonite Identities in the Soviet Cauldron. An appendix is included which recounts for the first time the emergence of Mennonite public history in southern Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The volume’s contributors reveal that far from being isolated from the larger society, Mennonites played an integral role in shaping the entire region. Minority Report successfully places Mennonite history within the recent historiographical insights offered by Ukrainian and Russian scholars and significantly enriches our understanding of minority relations in Soviet Ukraine.

Author : Helmut T. Huebert
Publisher : Kindred Productions
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 0920643094

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Mennonite Estates in Imperial Russia by Helmut T. Huebert Pdf

Author : Helmut Huebert
Publisher : Kindred Productions
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Hierschau, Russia
ISBN : 0920643019

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Hierschau by Helmut Huebert Pdf

Contains history and discription of Hierschau (or Girshau, aka Primernoe), Tavrida, Russia; now Vladivka, Chernihivka, Zaporiz︠h︡z︠h︡i︠a︡, Ukraine. Hierschau was part of a group of villages collectively known as the Molotschna Colony.

Author : Peter Rempel,Alfred H. Redekopp,Richard D. Thiessen,Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mennonites
ISBN : 0969088361

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Mennonite Migration to Russia, 1788-1828 by Peter Rempel,Alfred H. Redekopp,Richard D. Thiessen,Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society Pdf

Author : Peter Rempel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082698666

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Mennonite Migration to Russia, 1788-1828 by Peter Rempel Pdf

Author : N. J. Kroeker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Kant︠s︡erivka (Ukraine)
ISBN : IND:39000000412234

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First Mennonite Villages in Russia, 1789-1943 by N. J. Kroeker Pdf

Author : Fred Richard Belk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579105068

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The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia 1880-1884 by Fred Richard Belk Pdf

Author : John B. Toews
Publisher : Kindred Productions
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0921788487

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Journeys by John B. Toews Pdf

Author : Igor Trutanow
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Konstantinovka (Kazakhstan)
ISBN : 9781365188558

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Konstantinovka - A Mennonite village in the Soviet Empire. The last chapter of the history of the Mennonites in Russia by Igor Trutanow Pdf

This book is about everyday life of people in Soviet Russia who called themselves Mennisten, meaning Mennonites. They lived in the village of Konstantinovka, which was established by Mennonites from Chortitza in 1907 in the Central Asian steppe between Russia and China.

Author : James Urry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020677558

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None But Saints by James Urry Pdf

"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