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Book SynopsisEpp'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.
Trade Review'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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
