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Arnold Neufeldt-Fast: Welcome! I have been studying themes of Mennonite history and thought for decades, and have also had opportunity to teach the same in high school and to teach 6 years at the Mennonite seminary in Switzerland. Since 2006 I have been a prof. of theology and now dean at the seminary of Tyndale University, Toronto. I grew up in Canada as a child of Mennonite immigrants and was deeply impacted by stories that included two waves of refugee resettlement in Paraguay, flight over Moscow, liberation and complicity with Nazi Germany, Mennonite Central Committee famine relief, the execution of a grandfather in the Stalin purge, and a grandmother who experienced all of that including revolution and more. In a few hundred blog posts--all written and tested--I will unfold the Russian Mennonite experiment at "being Mennonite" in times so very different than our own. Each post includes notes and links. While some will read to learn more about their story, there is so much more that is of universal interest and value as well. For some of my related print articles, see: https://digitalcollections.tyndale.ca/browse?value=Neufeldt-Fast,%20Arnold&type=author.

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Index of key names, events, places

Agricultural Society School
Akkerman
Alexander I Tsar
Alexander II Tsar
Alms houses
Alt Schottland
Alternative Service
Alternative Service (Forestry)
Am Trakt
Ambarzumov A.G.

American Mennonite Relief
Amnesty
Anabaptism
Anarchy
Anchor (symbol)
Andres Otto
Anna von Oldenburg
Anti-Menno (Reimarus)
Anti-Semitism
Apocalypse
Art
Bachmut
Baczko Ludwig von
Balzer Heinrich
Baptism
Bartsch Johann
Berdjansk
Berg Helene
Bergmann Kornelius
Bergthal Colony
Bethania Mental Hospital
Bible Schottländische
Bote
Bouwens Leenaert
Bräul Heinrich
Bräul Jacob
Bräul Jakob
Braun Peter J.
Brazil
British
Brothers in Need
Bruges
Buenos Aires Argentina
Büsig H.C.
Calvin John
Calvinism
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Carlos Casado Company
Catechism
Catherine the Great
Cattepoel Dirk
Choirs
Chortitza
Chortitzer Mennonites
Christmas
Church discipline
Claszen J. P.
Collectivization
colonization
Communion
Contenius Samuel
Cornelis Friar
Cornies David
Cornies Johann
Cornies Philipp
Cornies Phillip
Cornonation
Crimean War
Culm Cadet School
Dancing
Danzig
Danzig)
Das Neue Dorf
De Roore Jacob
Deaf and Mute
DeFehr C.A.
Deknatel Johannes
Denner Jacob
Der praktische Landwirt
Deutsch Kazun
Dirks Heinrich
Donner Heinrich
Ducal Prussia
Dutch language
Ecumenism
education
Einlage
Elbing
Emancipation
Emigration
Engen Fred
Ens Gerhard
Epidemic (1929-30)
Epp David
Epp David (Elder Chortitza)
Epp David H.
Epp Frank
Epp Hans
Epp Jacob
Epp Peter (Danzig Elder)
Epp Peter (Elder
Erasmus
Estates
Ewert H. H.
Ewert W. J.
Fadeev Andrei
Famine
Fast Gerhard
Fast Jakob Jr.
February Revolution 1917
Fernheim
Flanders
Flemish
Flemsh
Flooding
Food
Franz Heinrich
Frederick II
Friedmann Robert
Friesen Peter M.
Friesland
Frisian
Funk Johann
Gerlach Horst
German Pietists
Germany
Gnadenfeld
Goossen Benjamin
Görz Franz Elder
Göttner Erich
GPU secret police
Guardianship Committee for Foreign Colonists
Hahn Evgenii von
Halbstadt Barnaul
Händiges Emil
Hans
Hanseatic League
Hansen Georg
Harbin China
Harder Bernhard
Heese Heinrich
Heil Hitler greeting
Henderson Ebeneezer
Heresy
Hershey F.K.
Himmler Heinrich
Hitler Adolf
Hoeppner D. R.
Hoffmeyer
Holocaust
Holodomor
Homage
HöppnerJakob
Hunzinger Abraham
Hüpfer (leapers)
Hutterites
Hymnal
Immigration to North America
Inquisition
Islam
Janz B.B.
Janzen Jacob H.
Janzen Jacob P.
Janzen Peter Wilhelm
Jews
Jews and Mennonites
John III Sobieski King of Poland
Jung-Stilling Johann H.
Kant Immanuel
Karlsruhe
Kharkiv
Kingdom of Poland
Kinship research
Kizik Edmund
Klaasen Martin
Klassen Abram
Klassen C.F.
Kleine Gemeinde
Kliewer Fritz
Koran
Kraemer Gustav
Krehbiel C.E.
Kristallnacht
Kröker Abraham
Kröker Isaac (elder)
Kurrent
landlessness
Last Days
Legacy
Lengua people
Lenin Vladimir
Liquidation Laws
literacy
Loewen Harry
London Bible Society
Low Countries
Ludendorff Festival
Lutbrandau
Luther Martin
Makhno Nestor
Mander Karel van
Manifesto 1763
Marienburg Castle
martyrs
Martyrs Mirror
Mary School for the Deaf
Matthysz Jan
McRoberts Samuel
Medical Orderlies
Melitopol
Memrik
Menno Colony Paraguay
Mennonite Brethren
Mennonite Central Committee
Military service
millenium
Miller A. J.
Molotschna
Molotschna Society for the Advancement of Schools
Monarchy
mortality infant
Moscow
Moscow Flight 1929
Münster
Münsterite
Müntzer
Napolean
National Socialism
Netherlands
Neufeld Jacob A.
New Economic Policy (NEP)
New Jerusalem
Nicholas I Tsar
Nicholas II Tsar
NKVD -People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Nogai
Non-resistance
Northern Provinces
Oath
Ohrloff
Old Colony Mennonites
Ontario
Orlofferfelde
Paraguay
Peace
Penmanship
Penner David J. (Reimarus)
Peters Isaak
Petition
Philip II of Spain
Philips Dirk
Pietersz Pieter
Plague Danzig
Poland
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Political cartoons
Political indoctrination
Pordenau Molotschna
Potemkin Gregory
Preaching
Printing
Privilegium
Privilegium (Royal Prussia)
Privilegium (Russia)
Propaganda
Propaganda Soviet
Proselytization
Prussia
Quakers
Quiet in the Land
Quiring Horst
Quiring Walter
Ratzlaff Benjamin
Rebellion
Red Cross Trains
Reesor
Refugees
Regehr Franz
Regier Cornelius
Reimer Gustav
Reimer Klaas
Relics
Rempel David
Rempel David G.
Rempel Jakob
repression
Revolution Bolshevik October 1917
Revolution February 1917
Roore Jacob de
Roosen Gerrit
Rosenort Fernheim
Royal Prussia
Rudnerweide
Rundschau
Russia
Russian language study
Saskatchewan
Schabalie Jan P.
Schlatter Daniel
Schleitheim Confession
Schmidt Peter
Schöder Heinrich Hajo
Schooling
Schwetz
Secret Police
Seeman Enoch
Selbstschutz
Siemens Katharina
Sigismund II Augustus King of Poland
Simons Menno
Skoropadsky Pavlo
SmissenJacob van der
Sommerfelder Mennonites
Spain
Speyer Diet of
Stalin
Stalin Josef
Stuhm
Stumpp Village Reports
Sumatra
Swartzentrber A.
Swedish War 1657
Thirty Years War
Toews David
Toews Susanna
Tolstoi Count
Totleben Eduard
Tragheimerweide
Trappe Georg von
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Trinity
Ukraine German Occupation
Ukraine German Occupation (1918)
Ukrainian People's Republic
Union of Citizens of Dutch Lineage
Unruh Benjamin
Unser Blatt
Urry James
Van Dühren Hendrick
Van Steen
Vereinigung (denomination)
Vistula Delta
Vlekwijk Herman
Volendam
Von Steen Hans
Voth Tobias
Waffen -SS
Warkentin Cornelius
Warkentin Jakob Elder
Warte
Warthegau
Wartheland
Weaver J Denny
West Prussia
Wiebe Gerhard (Prussia)
Wiebe Philipp
Wiens Gerhard
William of Orange
Williams Rowan
Willms Johann A.
Winkelschulen
Winnipeg
Witch hunts
Witness
Wladislaus IV
Wolfrum
World War I
Worship
Württemberg
Wüst Eduard
Wybe Adam

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