Paul Tschetter: The Story of a Hutterite Immigrant Leader, Pioneer, and Pastor

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 provides an in-depth narrative and analysis of Tschetter's influence based on diaries, sermons, hymns, interviews, and other primary materials.