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My Ancestors
Letters, diaries and documents from many centuries in the past provided the details for this enthralling read, but it is no ordinary collection of dry-as-dust facts. It is a chronicle stretching back into the Middle Ages, the history of a fascinating, influential and many-branched family with exciting life-stories to relate. The authors grandfather was the artist Johann Hinrich Geerken, and his aunt was housekeeper to Albert Einstein. This richly illustrated volume tells the tales of farmers and inventors, artists and artisans, but also of courageous women who had to see their families through difficult times alone. Among the ancestors described are the famous master tower-clock maker Johann...
The Mennonite Encyclopedia
Comprehensive reference work covering 400 years of the history, faith, life, culture of Anabaptism-Mennonitism.
Sisters
Harlot, pious martyr, marriage breaker, obedient sister, prophetess, literate woman, agent of the devil, hypocrite. These are some qualifications of the image of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, from a wide array of perspectives. Over the ages they became both negative and positive stereotypes, created by either opponents or sympathizers, as a means of demonizing or promoting the dissident, radical free church movement. This volume explores the characteristics, backgrounds and effects of the collective perceptions of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, as well as their self-understanding, from the sixteenth into the nineteenth centuries, in a variety of case studies. This is not a gender study in the traditional sense. The theory of imagology sets the stage for the interpretation of the image of the European Mennonite sisters, acting within their religious, moral, cultural and social landscapes of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine (tsarist Russia).
Exiled by the Czar
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Mennonite Life
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Die Ahnen
Briefe, Tagebücher und Dokumente aus den vergangenen Jahrhunderten lieferten die Details für diese packende Lektüre. Dies ist kein übliches Buch mit trockenen Daten. Es ist eine Zeitgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis heute, die Geschichte einer interessanten, einflussreichen und weitverzweigten Familie mit abenteuerlichen Lebensläufen. Der Großvater des Autors war der Kunstmaler Johann Hinrich Geerken und die Tante Haushälterin bei Albert Einstein. Von Bauern und Erfindern, Künstlern und Handwerkern, aber auch von mutigen Frauen, die in schwierigen Zeiten ihre Familien allein durchbringen mussten, erzählt dieser reich bebilderte Band. Unter den Vorfahren findet sich der berühmte Uhrmac...
