A Mennonite in Russia

The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880

Harvey L. Dyck

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University of Toronto Press
15 February 2013

Memoirs; Protestantism & Protestant Churches

Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies

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.

Edited and translated by: Harvey L. Dyck
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9781442615410
ISBN 10: 1442615419
Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
Pages: 492
Publication Date: 15 February 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Maps Introduction and Analysis BOOK I, 1851-1853 Old Colony Teacher and Judenplan Settler BOOK II, 1860-1866 Family and Village Life on the Judenplan BOOK III, 1867-1870 Contending with Change BOOK IV, 1871-1880 Balancing the Old and the New Notes Glossary Genealogy of the Jacob D. Epp Family Index

Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for A Mennonite in Russia: The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880

'Many threads are drawn together in a long introduction by the editor which goes beyond the material in the diary ... [A book] well worth reading.' -- Roy R. Robson Harvard Ukrainian Studies 'New insights into the life of Mennonites in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century come to us in the form of their diaries. These diaries have been preserved by those of their descendants who came to Canada. Dyck has translated Jacob Epp's diaries and made available a useful source of information about the Russian Mennonites.' -- Michael Newton Studies in Religion