Paul Tschetter

by Rod Janzen

Book Overview

This volume is the biography of Paul Tschetter, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606081349
• ISBN13: 9781606081341
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"