The Constructed Mennonite

Author : Hans Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554384

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The Constructed Mennonite by Hans Werner Pdf

John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler’s German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.

Author : Marlene Epp
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553431

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Mennonite Women in Canada by Marlene Epp Pdf

"Mennonite Women in Canada "traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women's roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. The combined histories of Mennonite women offer a rich and fascinating study of how women actively participate in ordering their lives within ethno-religious communities.

Author : Hans Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106017336634

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Imagined Homes by Hans Werner Pdf

A study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment.

Author : James Urry
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780887554117

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Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood by James Urry Pdf

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. He 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 focusses 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 : Robert Zacharias
Publisher : Studies in Immigration and Cul
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0887557473

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Rewriting the Break Event by Robert Zacharias Pdf

"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 : Royden Loewen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442666733

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Village Among Nations by Royden Loewen Pdf

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress. Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations “returned” in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men and women – letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on land settlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. They relate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.

Author : Frances Swyripa
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887557200

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Storied Landscapes by Frances Swyripa Pdf

Storied Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West including Ukrainians, Mennonites, Icelanders, Doukhobors, Germans, Poles, Romanians, Jews, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes.

Author : Hans Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553264

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Imagined Homes by Hans Werner Pdf

Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities is a study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment. Winnipeg’s migrants chose a receiving society where they knew they would again be a minority group in a foreign country, while Bielefeld’s newcomers believed they were “going home” and were unprepared for the conflict between their imagined homeland and the realities of post-war Germany. Werner also shows that differences in the way the two receiving societies perceived immigrants, and the degree to which secularization and the sexual and media revolutions influenced these perceptions in the two cities, were crucially important in the immigrant experience.

Author : Benjamin W. Goossen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691192741

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Chosen Nation by Benjamin W. Goossen Pdf

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen Nation is a sweeping history of this encounter and the debates it sparked among parliaments, dictatorships, and congregations across Eurasia and the Americas. Offering a multifaceted perspective on nationalism's emergence in Europe and around the world, Benjamin Goossen demonstrates how Mennonites' nationalization reflected and reshaped their faith convictions. While some church leaders modified German identity along Mennonite lines, others appropriated nationalism wholesale, advocating a specifically Mennonite version of nationhood. Examining sources from Poland to Paraguay, Goossen shows how patriotic loyalties rose and fell with religious affiliation. Individuals might claim to be German at one moment but Mennonite the next. Some external parties encouraged separatism, as when the Weimar Republic helped establish an autonomous "Mennonite State" in Latin America. Still others treated Mennonites as quintessentially German; under Hitler's Third Reich, entire colonies benefited from racial warfare and genocide in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Whether choosing Germany as a national homeland or identifying as a chosen people, called and elected by God, Mennonites committed to collective action in ways that were intricate, fluid, and always surprising. The first book to place Christianity and diaspora at the heart of nationality studies, Chosen Nation illuminates the rising religious nationalism of our own age.

Author : Robert Zacharias
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271076584

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After Identity by Robert Zacharias Pdf

For decades, the field of Mennonite literature has been dominated by the question of Mennonite identity. After Identity interrogates this prolonged preoccupation and explores the potential to move beyond it to a truly post-identity Mennonite literature. The twelve essays collected here view Mennonite writing as transitioning beyond a tradition concerned primarily with defining itself and its cultural milieu. What this means for the future of Mennonite literature and its attendant criticism is the question at the heart of this volume. Contributors explore the histories and contexts—as well as the gaps—that have informed and diverted the perennial focus on identity in Mennonite literature, even as that identity is reread, reframed, and expanded. After Identity is a timely reappraisal of the Mennonite literature of Canada and the United States at the very moment when that literature seems ready to progress into a new era. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Ervin Beck, Di Brandt, Daniel Shank Cruz, Jeff Gundy, Ann Hostetler, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Royden Loewen, Jesse Nathan, Magdalene Redekop, Hildi Froese Tiessen, and Paul Tiessen.

Author : Kimberly D. Schmidt,Diane Zimmerman Umble,Steven D. Reschly
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080186786X

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Strangers at Home by Kimberly D. Schmidt,Diane Zimmerman Umble,Steven D. Reschly Pdf

""A major contribution to our understanding of Anabaptist history and the ongoing construction of Anabaptist identity."" -- Mennonite Quarterly Review.

Author : Steve Friesen
Publisher : Intercourse, Penn. : Good Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000037276874

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A Modest Mennonite Home by Steve Friesen Pdf

In this 128 page book, Steve Friesen tells the story of the Hans Herr House located in an area known as "Conestoga" in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1719 by Mennonites who traveled west from Philadelphia to settle in this area of Pennsylvania. To this day, the house remains an integral part of not only Lancaster County history, but that of the settlement by Mennonites nearly 300 years ago. Includes several black and white photos, illustrations and a few color photos as well.

Author : Donald B. Kraybill,James P. Hurd
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271028651

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Horse-and-buggy Mennonites by Donald B. Kraybill,James P. Hurd Pdf

Examining how the Wengers have cautiously and incrementally adapted to the changes swirling around them, this book offers an invaluable case study of a traditional group caught in the throes of a postmodern world."--Jacket.

Author : Bruce Lloyd Guenther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Mennonites
ISBN : 0889775745

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The Ältester by Bruce Lloyd Guenther Pdf

Author : Orest T. Martynowych
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554728

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The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause by Orest T. Martynowych Pdf

A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian immigrants sustain their identity. His feature-length Ukrainian language films made in the 1930s with Hollywood director Edgar G. Ulmer, the “king of ethnic and B movies,” were shown throughout North America. Orest T. Martynowych’s The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause is a fascinating portrait how culture can become a political tool in a diaspora community.