Andrew Karpovich Dubovoy (1886–1968)
Auteur van Pilgrims of the prairie : pioneer Ukrainian Baptists in North Dakota
Werken van Andrew Karpovich Dubovoy
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Dubovoy, Andrew Karpovich
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Dubovyĭ, Andrew
- Geboortedatum
- 1886-11-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1968-12-27
- Graflocatie
- Kief Cemetery, Kief, McHenry County, North Dakota
- Nationaliteit
- Ukraine
- Geboorteplaats
- Poheblok, Ukraine
- Plaats van overlijden
- North Dakota
Leden
Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 1
- Leden
- 3
- Populariteit
- #1,791,150
- Waardering
- 5.0
- Besprekingen
- 1
The book primarily relates the story of those Ukrainian Baptists who settled a colony roughly 40 miles long and 15 miles wide in the area of McHenry, McLean, and Sheridan counties in North Dakota. Dubovy relates their struggles in the new land, with nature, shysters, and more (including their confusion with the German and American Baptists). He tells of their religion, though he does not go in depth into their theology. One striking account to me is the following:
“Liudwig Novak, an old man of seventy-five or eighty years, tall, with a beard white as snow…always walked with a big staff and carried a Russian edition of the Bible in a sack on his back. It was big, weighing nearly twenty pounds, and bound in thick leather covers. He never parted from it. People used to ask him, ‘What do you have in that sack, Grandad?’
“And he would answer, ‘Life and death.’” (p. 52)
Translator Bloch writes, “…the book…testifies to the excellence of a people who, through force of circumstances largely uneducated, yet had the courage to stand up under persecution and to make efforts to better their lot, even to leaving their native place for the fearful unknown” (p. xii).
Recommended.… (meer)