Paul Tschetter

by Janzen, Rod

• ISBN13: 9781606081341
• ISBN10: 1606081349
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-04
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

Paul Tschetter was a leading figure in late nineteenth-century Hutterite history, the "Hutterite Joshua," who convinced 1,250 Hutterites to leave Russia in the 1870s and resettle in Dakota Territory. Tschetter's life elucidates the way that an immigrant community fought for survival in a North American environment that stressed assimilation to radically different political, economic, cultural, and religious values. Janzen provides an in-depth narrative and analysis of Tschetter's influence based on diaries, sermons, hymns, interviews, and other primary materials. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Rod Janzen is Distinguished Scholar and Professor of History at Fresno Pacific University. He is the author of The Prairie People: Forgotten Anabaptists (1999) and The Rise and Falt of Synanon: A California Utopia (2001).

Table of Contents

Tables and Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Paul Tschetter, the Hutterite Joshua	p. 1
The Hutterites	p. 9
Growing up in Ukraine	p. 25
The Journey to North America	p. 48
Immigration	p. 84
A New Life in Dakota Territory	p. 113
Paul Tschetter and the Hutterite Colonies	p. 131
Leading the Neu Hutterthaler Church	p. 142
The Evangelical Alternative	p. 172
The Final Years	p. 189
The Legacy of Paul Tschetter	p. 218
Paul Tschetter's Summer 1873 Diary	p. 227
Neu Hutterthaler Church Record Book, 1875-1919, Narrative Sections	p. 267
Paul Tschetter's Letter of Petition to President Ulysses S. Grant, August 8, 1873	p. 285
Ulysses S. Grant's Response to Paul Tschetter's Petition, September 5, 1873	p. 287
Hutterite Memorial, 1874-1974, Bridgewater, South Dakota	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 289
Index	p. 299
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