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On Stony Ground
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.
The Kleine Gemeinde Historical Series, Vol. 5: Pioneers and Pilgrims. The Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Manitoba, Nebraska, and Kansas, 1874-1882
The largest single collection of published source material on the Russian Mennonites available today, these seven volumes include much genealogical and historical data on the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Man., Nebr., and Kans. (604pp. index. D.F. Publications, 1990.)
IMMIGRANT DAUGHTER
Many of us come from poor immigrant farm families and can identify with Tina’s story. Yet each story is different. Tina’s stunning story takes you at a fast clip from the early migrations of her Mennonite people from The Netherlands to Prussia to Ukraine. Her parents were born toward the end of the 19th Century in Czarist Russia, just in time to witness World War I, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in St. Petersburg, the Civil War that followed, and the reign of Lenin. For most of those years in their Ukrainian village the Klassen family prospered. The collectivization and purges of Stalin followed the Klassen’s emigration from Russia to Canada in 1925. Canada is the setting for Tina’s ...
Genealogy of Johann Janzen, 1752-1977
Johann Janzen (1752-1823) was born at Schoenseerfeld, West Prussia. He married Maria Bergmann in 1779. They emigrated from West Prussia to Petershagen, Molotschna. They had thirteen children. Maria died in 1808 and in 1809, he married (2) Agatha Fast from Halbstadt. They had one child, Abram (b.1810). A direct descendant, Abram Janzen (b.1908), married Margaret Toews and emigrated from Russia to Watrous, Saskatchewan--as did other direct descendants. Descendants lived in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Québec, British Columbia and elsewhere. Other relatives emigrated from Russia to Brazil and elsewhere in South America. Includes relatives and some descendants in the USSR and in The Netherlands.
Mennonite Family History Ten Year Index, 1982-1991
A 52,640-name index to the past ten years of Mennonite Family History published from 1982 through 1991, this index includes surnames, authors of articles, subjects and every name mentioned in the articles. (170pp. Masthof Press, 1992.)
Hierschau
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.
Profile of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde, 1874
Genealogical and passenger list information about the two hundred families, members of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde, who emigrated from settlements in Taurida and Ekaterinoslav Gubernii︠a︡, Russia (now in the Ukraine, U. S. S. R.) to Manitoba, Canada and Nebraska and Kansas in the United States.
