CONTENTS

Jacob Hutter's Friends: Twelve Narrative Voices From Switzerland to South Dakota Over Four Centuries By Marian Kleinsasser Towne

Voice 1, Anna Baptista

• The Swiss Brethren of Zurich, 1420 - 1
• Spreading the Seeds of Anabaptism - 10
• Beginning Community of Goods in Moravia, 1528 - 17
• Jacob Hutter Shapes Our Movement - 21
• Baptistas as Part of the Wandering Hutterites - 40

Voice Two, Paul Baptista

• A Period of Peace in Moravia - 45
• Persecution Returns - 49
• The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 - 54
• Exile from Moravia, 1622 - 57
• Sojourning in Hungary and Transylvania, 1622-1665 - 59

Voice Three, Johannes Walder

• Decay in the Hutterite Communities - 73
• Decline of the Hutterites in Alwinz, Transylvania - 76
• Renewal of Hutterites by Lutherans from Carinthia - 77
• Move to Kreuz, Transylvania, 1761 - 85
• Happening Back in Hungary - 87
• Final Move to Kreuz, 1762-1767 - 93

Voice Four, Joseph Kuhr

• Johannes Stahl and I Arrive at Kreuz - 113
• The Flight into Wallachia, 1767 - 117
• From Wallachia to Wischenka, Ukraine, 1770 - 132

Voice Five, Christian Hofer

• Continuation of the Story of Our Stay in Wischenka, 1794-1802 - 77

Voice Six, Peter Hofer

• In Radichewa, 1802-1842 - 87

Voice Seven, Peter Janzen

• "On the Molotschna River," 1842-1874 - 193

Voice Eight, Rev. Paul Tschetter

• "Losing Our Privileges in Russia & Spying Out the Land in America" - 199

Voice Nine, Anna Tschetter Kleinsasser

• "My LIfe, 1856-1931 - 215

Voice Ten, Mrs. John J. Hofer

• Mother of Three Inductees, World War I - 225

Voice Eleven, John P. Kleinsasser (Morgan)

• "I Learn About Community" - 229

Voice Twelve, Rev. D. M. Hofer

• . . .In Ruszland, 1922 - 239