Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.

‘Many threads are drawn together in a long introduction by the editor which goes beyond the material in the diary … [A book] well worth reading.’ - Roy R. Robson (Harvard Ukrainian Studies) ‘New insights into the life of Mennonites in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century come to us in the form of their diaries. These diaries have been preserved by those of their descendants who came to Canada. Dyck has translated Jacob Epp’s diaries and made available a useful source of information about the Russian Mennonites.’ - Michael Newton (Studies in Religion)

• AcknowledgmentsMapsIntroduction and AnalysisBOOK I, 1851-1853Old Colony Teacher and Judenplan SettlerBOOK II, 1860-1866Family and Village Life on the JudenplanBOOK III, 1867-1870Contending with ChangeBOOK IV, 1871-1880Balancing the Old and the NewNotesGlossaryGenealogy of the Jacob D. Epp FamilyIndex

Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.

‘Many threads are drawn together in a long introduction by the editor which goes beyond the material in the diary … [A book] well worth reading.’ - Roy R. Robson (Harvard Ukrainian Studies) ‘New insights into the life of Mennonites in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century come to us in the form of their diaries. These diaries have been preserved by those of their descendants who came to Canada. Dyck has translated Jacob Epp’s diaries and made available a useful source of information about the Russian Mennonites.’ - Michael Newton (Studies in Religion)

• AcknowledgmentsMapsIntroduction and AnalysisBOOK I, 1851-1853Old Colony Teacher and Judenplan SettlerBOOK II, 1860-1866Family and Village Life on the JudenplanBOOK III, 1867-1870Contending with ChangeBOOK IV, 1871-1880Balancing the Old and the NewNotesGlossaryGenealogy of the Jacob D. Epp FamilyIndex

Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto.

‘Many threads are drawn together in a long introduction by the editor which goes beyond the material in the diary … [A book] well worth reading.’ - Roy R. Robson (Harvard Ukrainian Studies) ‘New insights into the life of Mennonites in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century come to us in the form of their diaries. These diaries have been preserved by those of their descendants who came to Canada. Dyck has translated Jacob Epp’s diaries and made available a useful source of information about the Russian Mennonites.’ - Michael Newton (Studies in Religion)

• AcknowledgmentsMapsIntroduction and AnalysisBOOK I, 1851-1853Old Colony Teacher and Judenplan SettlerBOOK II, 1860-1866Family and Village Life on the JudenplanBOOK III, 1867-1870Contending with ChangeBOOK IV, 1871-1880Balancing the Old and the NewNotesGlossaryGenealogy of the Jacob D. Epp FamilyIndex