Take a unique journey through the Russian Mennonite past with Paul Toews’ Mennonite Heritage Cruise Lectures. With nearly 100 historic photographs, this coffee-table book offers a rare glimpse into the prosperity, sorrow, and rebirth of the Mennonite story in Russia and Ukraine.
All proceeds from book sales go to the Paul Toews Professorship in Russian Mennonite History Fund.
About the Authors:
Paul Toews was a professor of history at Fresno Pacific University. Toews published widely in the field of Mennonite history and devoted nearly two decades to locating, identifying, and reproducing tens of thousands of documents from Russian and Ukrainian archives. For sixteen years, Toews shared his interpretation of Mennonite history through these lectures with participants on the Mennonite Heritage Cruise in Ukraine.
Aileen Friesen is the inaugural J. Winfield Fretz Visiting Research Scholar in Mennonite Studies at Conrad Grebel University College. She has presented and published on themes related to Mennonites and Russian Orthodoxy. In addition to contributing an introduction, she judiciously edited Paul’s text and selected the pictures included in this book.
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