Andrew Karpovich Dubovoy (1886–1968)
Auteur de Pilgrims of the prairie : pioneer Ukrainian Baptists in North Dakota
Œuvres de Andrew Karpovich Dubovoy
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Dubovoy, Andrew Karpovich
- Autres noms
- Dubovyĭ, Andrew
- Date de naissance
- 1886-11-30
- Date de décès
- 1968-12-27
- Lieu de sépulture
- Kief Cemetery, Kief, McHenry County, North Dakota
- Nationalité
- Ukraine
- Lieu de naissance
- Poheblok, Ukraine
- Lieu du décès
- North Dakota
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 3
- Popularité
- #1,791,150
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 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).
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