Series 5 - "And When They Shall Ask" film- Bibliographic sources

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CA MHSBC 112-5

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"And When They Shall Ask" film- Bibliographic sources

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  • 1984 (Creation)

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30 cm of textual records

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(1940-2019)

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Series consists of the following files:
1) Auhagen, Otto - Land Management & Administration, 1927-1928, 1931-1932 - (1 file) Box 238
2) von Aesche, Gerd - "Jawohl, Herr Leutnant!" - (1 file) Box 238
3) Anger, Dr. Helmut - Vom Deutschtum in Sibirien - (1 file) Box 238
4) Aschkewitz, Max, 1952 - Die Deutsche Siedlung in Westpreussen im 16., 17 und 18. Jahrhundert - (1 file) Box 238
5) Bederke, Dr. Otto - Deutsches Zuchtvieh in Kaukasus - (1 file) Box 238
6) Belk, Fred R. - Central Asian Mennonite Migration Problems, mid-1880's - (1 file) Box 238
7) Beer, Manfred R. - Deutsche for Chinas Toren - Ein Bericht au Kasachstan - (1 file) Box 238
8) Beermann, R., 1968-1969 - The Baptists and Soviet Society - (1 file) Box 238
9) Berg, Wesley, 1980 - (1 file) Box 238
A) Choral Singing Among the Mennonites of Russia to 1895
B) Choral Singing Among the Mennonites of Russia 1895-1928
10) Botziurkiv, Bohdon, Sowjetrussische Religionpolitik und die Ukrainische Kathollische Kirche - (1 file) Box 238
11) Clippings - Duetsches Schrifttum in Sibirien - (1 file) Box 238
12) Correll, Ernst - Mennonite Immigration into Manitoba, 1872, 1873 - (1 file) Box 238
13) Crawford, J.M. - Agriculture and Forestry in Russia, 1882-1891 - (1 file) Box 238
14) Buzinkai, Donald I. - The Bolsheviks, The League of Nations and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 - (1 file) Box 238
15) Cleinow, Georg - Die Nationalitaetenpolitik in der Sowjetunion - (1 file) Box 238
16) Dorosenko, D. - Das Deutsche Recht in der Ukraine - (1 file) Box 238
17) Doerksen, Victor G. - Eduard Wuest and Jerusalem - (1 file) Box 238
18) Dueck Film Productions, John B. Toews, Scriptwriter - (1 file) Box 238
19) Dyck, Harvey L., 1969 - Immigration, 1929-1930: A Chance Interplay - (1 file) Box 238
20) Eudin, Xenia Jourkoff - The German Occupation of the Ukraine in 1918 - (1 file) Box 238
21) Fletcher, William C. - Russian Orthodoxy: The Church and the Communist State - (1 file) Box 238
22) Francis, E.K. - The Mennonite Commonwealth in Russia, 1789-1914 - (1 file) Box 238
23) Friesen, John W. - Characteristics of Mennonite Identity - (1 file) Box 238
24) Friesen, P.M. - Ein Mennonitischer Schaecher, Drei Briefe - (1 file) Box 238
25) Gingerich, Owen - Relations between the Russian Mennonites and the Friends During the Nineteenth Century - (1 file) Box 238
26) Froese, Leonard - Buecher der Harders & Johann Cornies Bedeutung fuer die Molotschna - (1 file) Box 238
27) Gerz, P.H. - Am Grossen Feuer Vorbei - (1 file) Box 238
28) Haury, David A. - Bernhard Warkentin: A Mennonite Success Story - (1 file) Box 238
29) Hofer, J.M. - The Diary of Paul Tschetter, 1873 - (1 file) Box 238
30) Ewert, Wilhelm - A Defense of the Ancient Mennonite Principle of Non-resistance by a Leading Prussian Mennonite Elder in 1873 - (1 file) Box 238
31) Huebner, Ernst - Der Deutschunterricht in der Sowjetunion - (1 file) Box 238
32) Kahle, Wilhelm - Wege und Wandlungen der Evangelischen Gemeinden in Russland und in der Sowjetuinion - (1 file) Box 238
33) Klassen, C.F. - The Mennonites of Russia, 1917-1928 - (1 file) Box 238
34) Janzen, Helen - Recaps 100 Years of Mennonite History - (1 file) Box 238
35) Klassen, G.F. - Die Flucht vor den Deutschen - (1 file) Box 238
36) Klassen, Nick - Famine of 1921 in Mennonite Colonies: Alvin J. Miller's Role - (1 file) Box 238
37) Klassen, Peter - Durch Dreuz zur Krone - (1 file) Box 238
38) Klippenstein, Lawrence - Exercising a Free Conscience - (1 file) Box 238
39) Kornelsen, S. - Meine Flucht aus Russland - (1 file) Box 238
40) Hoemsen, Jakob - Articles by Jokob Hoemsen in Mennonitische Rundschau - (1 file) Box 238
41) Krahn, Cornelius, 1902-1990 - Some Social Attitudes of the Mennonites of Russia - (1 file) Box 238
42) Kreider, Robert - The Anabaptist Conception of the Church in the Russian Mennonite environment, 1789-1870 - (1 file) Box 238
43) Kuhn, Walter - Cultural Achievements of the Chortitza Mennonites - (1 file) Box 238
44) Kulischer, Eugene M. - Recent Migration in the Soviet Union - (1 file) Box 238
45) Liebbrandt, Dr. George - The Emmigration of the German Mennonites from Russia to the United States & Canada om 1873-1880 - (1 file) Box 238
46) Lipset, Harry - The Status of National Minority Language in Soviet Education - (1 file) Box 238
47) Loewen, Harry - Echos of Drumbeats: The Movement of Exuberance among the Mennonite Brethren, 1984 - (1 file) Box 238
48) Malycky, Alexander - First Mennonites in Alberta in 1888? - (1 file) Box 238
49) Matznetter, Thusnelda - Zur Reform des Fremdspachenunterrichts in der Sowjetunion - (1 file) Box 238
50) Martius, Georg - Das deutsch-russiche Protokoll vom 21. Dezember 1928 - (1 file) Box 238
51) McNeal, Robert H. Soviet Historigraphy on the October Revolution: A Review of Forty Years 1958 - (1 file) Box 238
52) Mergenthaler, Andreas - Die ruchlosen Mordtaten des Banditenhaeuptlings Machno - (1 file) Box 238
53) Miller, Alvin J. - Relief work in Revolutionary Russia, 1962 - (1 file) Box 238
54) Neufeld, J. - Mennoniten 'reisen' durch Sibirien - (1 file) Box 238
55) Peters, G.A, - Die Mennoniten in China (Mitten-Asien) und ihre Umgebung - (1 file) Box 238
56) Plett, Delbert F. - Print Culture of the East Reserve 1874-1930 - (1 file) Box 238
57) Powell, A. - The Nationalist Trend in Soviet Historiography - (1 file) Box 238
58) Quiring, Walter - Zum Problem der innermennonitischen Abwanderung - (1 file) Box 238
59) Rabinowitsch, J.M. - Die Rectslage der staatenlosen russischen Emigranted in Deutschland, 1927-1928 - (1 file) Box 238
60) Rastenis, Vincas - The Russification of Non-Russian Peoples in the Russian Empire: Under the Czars and under the Soviets - (1 file) Box 238
61) Regier, C.C. - Childhood Reminiscences of a Russian Mennonite Immigrant Mother 1859-1880 - (1 file) Box 238
62) Reimer, Adolf A. - Wen es kam! - (1 file) Box 238
63) Rempel, David G. - The Mennonite Migration to New Russia (1787-1870) - (1 file) Box 238
64) Roemmich, Heinrich - Die Diskriminierung der Deutschen in der Sowjetunion wurde Zurueckgenommen - (1 file) Box 238
65) Rohan, A.B. - Die Deutschen als Ethnische Gruppen in Russland - (1 file) Box 238
66) Sawatsky, Walter - Mennonite Congregations in the Soviet Union Today - (1 file) Box 238
67) Schroeder, Henrich H. - Unser Kampf gegen den Banden Machnos 1918-1919 - (1 file) Box 238
68) Schultz, Harold J. - Portrait of a Premier: William Aberhart & Search for Utopia: The Exodus of Russian Mennonites to Canada, 1917-1927 - (1 file) Box 238
69) Senn, Alfred Erich - Die Bolschewistische Politik in Litauen 1917-1919 - (1 file) Box 238
70) Stahn, R. O. - Die staatliche Versicherung in Russland und das Dekret vom 18. September 1925 - (1 file) Box 238
71) Stratil-Sauer, G. - Bei deutschen Bauern in Wolynien - (1 file) Box 238
72) Stupperich, Robert - Die russische Kirchengeschichte in Deutschland seit 1914. Motive und Ergebnisse. - (1 file) Box 238
73) Stumpp, Karl - Die Deutschen in der Sowjetunion von 1917-1965 - (1 file) Box 238
74) Suderman, Jacob - The Origin of Mennonite State Service in Russia, 1987-1880. - (1 file) Box 238
75) Timasheff, N. S. - The Church in the Soviet Union, 1917-1941 & Russian Nationalism Under the Soviets - (1 file) Box 238
76) Thiessen, A. - Der Flucht ueber den Amur - (1 file) Box 238
77) von Unruh, Georg Christoph - Die Selbsverwaltung deutscher Gemeinden in Polen im Spiegel oertlicher Satzungen - (1 file) Box 238
78) Unruh, Benjamin H. - The Background and causes of the Flight of the Mennonites from Russia in 1929 - (1 file) Box 238
79) Urry, James - Mennonites in Russia - (1 file) Box 238
80) Voltner, M. - Wolgadeutsche Schulprobleme - (1 file) Box 238
81) Weinreich, Uriel - Yiddish and Colonial German in Eastern Europe: The Differential Impact of Slavic - (1 file) Box 238
82) Wiens, Delbert - From the Village to the City: A Grammar for the Languages we are - (1 file) Box 238
83) Zenzinov, Vladimir - Exodus of a People: The German Colonists have left the USSR - (1 file) Box 238
84) Annonymous - Die Lage der evangelischen Kirche in der Sowjetunion - (1 file) Box 238
85) Anti-Mennonite Sentiments, Letters to the Editor, 1927, 1929, 1936, 1964-1965 - (1 file) Box 238
86) Suderman, Leonhard - Ueber Unsere Reise nach St. Petersburg in den ersten Monaten des Jahres 1871 - (1 file) Box 238

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The series consists of research material compiled by John B Toews for the writing of the screen play for the film "And When They Shall Ask: the Story of the Mennonites from Russia", a feature length motion picture that seeks to answer the question "Who are these People?" It is a 90 minute documentary set in 1910-1930 which dramatizes a time of prosperity to one of persecution of the Mennonites. The film was produced by Dueck Film Productions Ltd., Winnipeg in 1984, Dave B Dueck, Executive Producer. A relaunch of the DVD was made in 2011 which includes special features.
John B Toews' research for the screenplay includes 86 essays and articles for the interviews used in the film and writing of the script. Articles are taken from journals Osteuropa, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Mennonitische Rundschau, Mennonite Life, Der Bote, Bibel und Pfug, Soviet Studies and chapters from books, and other essays. The articles are listed alphabetically by author. A book of interviews conducted by John Toews is included in this series. - (83 files) Box 250

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Title is based on the contents of the series.
The material in this series is arranged according to the original filing system of the creator.

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Record created 4/16/2012
Record modified July 13, 2015

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