Hutterites: A Selected Bibliography

CNH Bibliographies 2

Books & Other Monographs

last updated 16 June 2008

1. Alberta, Special Advisory Committee on Communal Property and Land Use. (1973). Communal property in Alberta. [Edmonton]: Dept. of Municipal Affairs, Special Advisory Office.
2. Bach, Marcus. (1949). The dream gate. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co. (Note: a novel about life among the Hutterians.) (Note: This entry taken from: Riley, Marvin P. (1965). The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography...).
3. Barnett, Don C., & Knight, Lowry R. (1977). The Hutterite people. Saskatoon: Western Extension College Educational Publishers. (Note: sketches by Neil Wagner).
4. Bennett, John William. (1967). Hutterian Brethren: the agricultural economy and social organization of a communal people. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
5. Bennett, John W. (1993). Human ecology as human behavior: essays in environmental and developmental anthropology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. (Note: Part two includes the "Social aspects of sustainability and common property: Lessons form the history of the Hutterian Brethren.").
6. Blumhardt, Christoph. (1988). Lift thine eyes: evening prayers for every day of the year. (3rd. ed.). Rifton, NY: Plough Publishing House. (Note: a translation of Abendgebete fur alle Tage des Jahres, previously published as Evening Prayers for Every Day of the Year).
7. Blumhardt, Christoph. (1998). Lift thine eyes: evening prayers for every day of the year. (4th. ed.). Farmington, PA: Plough Publishing House. (Note: a translation of Abendgebete fur alle Tage des Jahres).
8. Braitmichel, Kasper. (1987). The Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren. Framington PA: Plough Publishing House. (Note: This is the first English translation of a 1581 manuscript, which was previously published in German. An introduction is provided by Jacob Kleinsasser.).
9. Brednich, Rolf Wilhelm. (1981). The Bible and the plough: the lives of a Hutterite minister and a Mennonite farmer. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
10. Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Economic and Social Research Branch. (1961). Citizenship, immigration and ethnic groups in Canada: a bibliography of research, published and unpublished sources 1920-1958. Ottawa: Roger Duhamel, F.R.S.C., Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationary. (Note: contains many entries about Hutterites.)  (Note: This entry taken from: Riley, Marvin P. (1965). The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography...).
11. Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Economic and Social Research Branch. (1962). Citizenship, immigration and ethnic groups in Canada: a bibliography of research, published and unpublished sources 1959-1961. Ottawa: Roger Duhamel, F.R.S.C., Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationary. (Note: contains many entries about Hutterites)  (Note: This entry taken from: Riley, Marvin P. (1965). The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography...).
12. Canadian Mental Health Association, Saskatchewan Division. (1953). The Hutterites and Saskatchewan: a study of inter-group relations. Regina: The Saskatchewan Division.
13. Capp, Kristin. (1998). Hutterite: a world of grace. Zurich: Edition Stemmle. (Note: Photographs by Kristin Capp. Text by Kristin Capp, Sieglinde Geisel, and Rod Slemmons. Includes a brief introductory text, Brief chronological outline of the history of Hutterites, and From Zurich to the North American plains.)
14. Conkin, Paul Keith. (1964). Two paths to utopia: the Hutterites and the Llano Colony. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
15. Conkin, Paul Keith. (1964, Reissued 1983). Two paths to utopia: the Hutterites and the Llano Colony. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
16. Deets, Lee Emerson. (1939). The Hutterites: a study in social cohesion. Gettysburg, PA: times and News Pub. Co.
17. Deets, Lee Emerson. (1975). The Hutterites: a study in social cohesion. Philadelphia: Porcupine Press. (Note: includes The origins of conflict in the Hutterische communities).
18. Eaton, Joseph W., & Mayer, Albert J. (1954). Man's capacity to reproduce: a demography of a unique population. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press.
19. Eaton, Joseph W., & Weil, Robert J. (1955). Culture and mental disorders; a comparative study of the Hutterites and other populations. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
20. Eaton, Joseph W.; Weil, Robert J.; & Kaplan, Bert. (1951). The Hutterite mental health study. Goshen, IN: Mennonite Historical Society. (Note: This is a reprint from Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 1951).
21. Ehrenpreis, Andreas; Felbinger, Klaus; & Friedmann, Robert. (1978). Brotherly community--the highest command of love: two Anabaptist documents of 1650 and 1560. Rifton, NY: Plough Pub. House.
22. Eggers, Ulrich. (1988). Community for life. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.
23. Esau, Alvin A.J. (2005). The Courts and the colonies: the litigation of Hutterite church disputes.  Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. (Note: Professor Esau based this book on a careful review of over a dozen cases of litigation using voluminous court records.).
24. Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration, State of South Dakota. (1938). A South Dakota guide. Pierre, SD: State Publishing Company. (Note: many references to Hutterites and Mennonites) (Note: This entry taken from: Riley, Marvin P. (1965). The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography...).
25. Fleming, John A.; Rowan, Michael J.; Chambers, James A. (2004). Folk furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. (Note: photographs by James A. Chambers).
26. Flint, David. (1975). The Hutterites: a study in prejudice. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
27. Friedmann, Robert. (1961). Hutterite studies; essays by Robert Friedmann, collected and published in honor of his seventieth anniversary. (Bender, Harold Stauffer, Ed.). Goshen, IN: Mennonite Historical Society. (Note: includes a chronological bibliography of the chief writings of Robert Friedmann).
28. Gerlach, Horst. (1999). Hutterites in West Prussia: a bruderhof in Wengeln at Lake Drausen, including a general survey of Hutterite history (Gerhard Schmutterer, Trans., Shirley Tschetter, Ed.). Sioux Falls, SD: Pine Hill Press. (Note: a translation from German).
29. Gross, Leonard. (1980). The golden years of the Hutterites: the witness and thought of the communal Moravian Anabaptists during the Walpot Era, 1565-1578. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.
30. Gross, Leonard. (1998). The golden years of the Hutterites: the witness and thought of the communal Moravian Anabaptists during the Walpot Era, 1565-1578 (Rev. ed.). Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press.
31. Gross, Paul S. (n.d.). Who are the Hutterites. Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House. (Note: a pamphlet) (Note: This entry taken from: Riley, Marvin P. (1965). The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography...).
32. Gross, Paul S. (1965). The Hutterite way: the inside story of the life, customs, religion, and traditions of the Hutterites. Saskatoon, Canada: Freeman Pub. Co.
33. Harder, Geraldine Gross, & Harder, Milton. (1990). Christmas goose. Newton, KS: Faith and Life Press. (Note: illustrations by Lavonne Dyck).
34. Harrison, Wes. (1997). Andreas Ehrenpreis & Hutterite faith & practice. London: Pandora Press.
35. Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. (1962). A bibliography of Anabaptism, 1520-1630. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies. (Note: contains much information about Hutterites) (Note: This entry taken from: Riley, Marvin P. (1965). The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography...).
36. Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. (1975). A bibliography of Anabaptism, 1520-1630, a sequel, 1962-1974. St Louis: Center for Reformation Research. 
37. Hofer, Joshua. (1985). Japanese Hutterites: a visit to Owa community. Altona, Manitoba: D.W. Friesen & Sons. (Note: much if this book is written in the German language, portions are in English).
38. Hofer, Peter. (1955). The Hutterian Brethren and their beliefs. Starbuck, Manitoba, Canada: Hutterian Brethren of Manitoba.
39. Hofer, Samuel. (1991). Born Hutterite: stories. Saskatoon, Canada: Hofer Pub. (Note: fiction).
40. Hofer, Samuel. (1992). The Hutterite community cookbook. Saskatoon, Canada: Hofer Publishing.
41. Hofer, Samuel. (1995). Dance like a poor man. Winnipeg: Hofer Publishers. (Note: fiction).
42. Hofer, Samuel. (1998). The Hutterites: lives and images of a communal people. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: Hofer Publishers.
43. Holzach, Michael. (1993). The forgotten people: a year among the Hutterites (Stephan Lhotzky, Trans.). Sioux Falls, SD: Ex Machina Pub. Co. (Note: More information about this book can be found by searching "Holzach" on LibraryThing.).
44. Hoover, Walter B. (1997). Hutterian-English dictionary: compendium of the common vocabulary of the Hutterian Prairie People at Langham, Saskatchewan (1905-1997). Saskatoon, Canada: W.B. Hoover.
45. Hoover, Walter B. (1997). The Hutterian language: a grammar and lexicon. Saskatoon, Canada: W.B. Hoover.
46. Horsch, John. (1927, reissued 1972). The Hutterian Brethren, 1528-1931; and the principle of nonresistance as held by the Mennonite Church. New York: Garland Pub. (Note: reissued 1972).
47. Horsch, John. (1931). The Hutterian Brethren, 1528-1931. Goshen, IN: The Mennonite Historical Society.
48. Hostetler, John Andrew. (1965). Education and marginality in the communal society of the Hutterites. University Park: Pennsylvania State University.
49. Hostetler, John Andrew. (1965). Hutterite life. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.
50. Hostetler, John Andrew. (1974). Hutterite society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University.
51. Hostetler, John Andrew. (1983). Hutterite life. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.
52. Hostetler, John Andrew. (1997). Hutterite society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. (Note: reprint).
53. Hostetler, John Andrew, & Huntington, Gertrude Enders. (1967). The Hutterites in North America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
54. Hostetler, John Andrew, & Huntington, Gertrude Enders. (1980). The Hutterites in North America (Fieldwork ed.). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (Note: photographs by Kryn Taconis).
55. Hostetler, John Andrew, & Huntington, Gertrude Enders. (1996). The Hutterites in North America (3rd ed.). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
56. Hostetler, John Andrew; Michaels, Eric; & Miller, Diane Levy. (1974). Communitarian societies. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
57. Hottmann, Henry. (1990). The Hutterites in South Dakota. Rapid City, SD: The Author.
58. Howells, W. W., & Bleibtreu, Hermann K. (1970). Hutterite age differences in body measurements. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum.
59. Hull, Terence H., & Saladi, Riningsih. (1977). The application of Hutterite fertility-weighted indexes to studies of changing marriage patterns. Yogyakarta: Population Institute, Gadjah Mada University.
60. Hutter, Jakob. (1979). Brotherly faithfulness: epistles from a time of persecution (The Hutterian Society of Brothers, Trans.). Rifton, NY: Plough Pub. House.
61. Hutterian Brethren. (Eds.). (1987). The chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren. Rifton, NY: Plough Pub. House.
62. Hutterian Brethren directory of western Canada & US, the unique 2006. (2006). Holden, Alberta, Canada: Darius Leut Publishing Group.
63. Hutterite Centennial Steering Committee. (1975). History of the Hutterite Mennonites: published in connection with the Centennial Observance of the coming of Hutterites to Dakota (2nd ed.). Freeman, SD: Pine Hill.
64. Hutterite Centennial Steering Committee. (1985). Hutterite roots. Freeman, SD: Pine Hill Press
65. Infield, Henrik F. & Maier, Joseph B. (1950). Cooperative group living: an international symposium on group farming and the sociology of cooperation. New York: Henry Koosis & Company. (Note: "The Last Stop, The Hutterische Gemein", pp. 183-191, discusses two Hutterites communities in Jamesville and Bonhomme, SD.) (Note: This entry taken from: Riley, Marvin P. (1965). The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography...).
66. Janzen, Rod A. (1984). Perceptions of the South Dakota Hutterites in the 1980s. Publisher: Freeman, S D: Freeman Publishing Co. (Note: illustrations by Lavonne Dyck).
67. Janzen, Rod A. (1985). Terry Miller: the pacifist politician: from Hutterite colony to state capitol. Freeman, SD: Pine Hill Press.
68. Janzen, Rod A. (1999). The prairie people: forgotten Anabaptists. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
69. Janzen, William. (1990). Limits on liberty: the experience of Mennonite, Hutterite , and Doukhobor communities in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
70. Kant, Joanita. (Ed.). (1984). The Hutterite cookbook: traditional and contemporary recipes of the Hutterite Brethren in eastern South Dakota (1st ed.). Watertown, SD: Sioux River Press. (Note: illustrated by Mary Elmore Wipf).
71. Kant, Joanita. (1990). The Hutterite community cookbook. Intercourse, PA: Good Books.
72. Kaplan, Bert, & Plaut, Thomas F. (1956). Personality in a communal society; an analysis of the mental health of the Hutterites. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas.
73. Krause, Bertha Louise Schmidt. (1991). Tschetter-Waldner and allied families. Ridgefield, WA: B.L.S. Krause.
74. Kraybill, Donald B. & Bowman, Carl F. (2001). On the backroad to heaven: old order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
75. Kraybill, Donald B. (2003). Who are the Anabaptists?: Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.
76. Krisztinkovich, Maria H. (1998). An annotated Hutterite bibliography.  Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: Pandora Press. (Note: edited by Peter C. Erb).
77. Maendel, Rachel. (1999). Rachel, a Hutterite girl. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, a Division of Mennonite Publishing House. (Note: juvenile fiction, illustrated by Hannah Marsden).
78. Martens, Helen. (2002). Hutterite songs. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press; Scottdale, PA: Herald Press. (Note: revision of her doctoral dissertation  Hutterite Songs: The Origins and Aural Transmission of Their Melodies from the Sixteenth Century, Columbia University, 1968)
79. Mendel, Jacob J. (1962). History of the people of East Freeman, Silver Lake, and West Freeman from 1528 to 1961; and, History of Freeman (continued, 1958-1961). Freeman, SD: Freeman Courier.
80. Miller, Tarrel R. (1964). The Dakotans: the story of some of the pioneers and their times, with special emphasis on the people who settled North and South Dakota. Stickney, SD: Argus Printers. (Note: Chapter four discusses the Hutterites.).
81. Packull, Werner O. (1995). Hutterite beginnings: communitarian experiments during the Reformation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
82. Peter, Karl A. (1987). The dynamics of Hutterite society: an analytical approach. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
83. Peters, Victor. (1965). All things common: the Hutterite way of life.. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
84. Radtke, Hans D. (1971). The Hutterites in Montana: an economic description. Bozeman, Montana Agricultural Experiment Station.
85. Redekop, Calvin Wall. (1989). Mennonite society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
86. Riedmann, Peter. (1950). Account of our religion, doctrine, and faith, given by Peter Riedemann of the brothers whom men call Hutterians. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
87. Riedemann, Peter. (1970). Account of our religion, doctrine, and faith, given by Peter Riedemann of the brothers whom men call Hutterians (The Hutterian Brethren, Trans.) (2nd ed.). Rifton, NY: Plough Pub. House.
88. Riedemann, Peter. (1993). Love is like fire: the confession of an Anabaptist prisoner: written at Gmunden, Upper Austria, between 1529 and 1532 (The Hutterian Brethren, Trans. & Eds. [from Robert Friedmann, Ed., Glaubenszeugnisse oberdeutscher Taufgesinnter II ... 1-47]). Farmington, PA: Plough Pub. House.
89. Riedemann, Peter. (1999). Hutterite confession of faith: translation of the 1565 German edition of confession of our religion, teaching, and faith by the brothers who are known as Hutterites (Friesen, John, Trans. & Ed.). Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.
90. Riley, Marvin P. (1965). The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography with special reference to South Dakota Hutterite colonies. Brookings, SD: Sociology Dept., Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University.
91. Riley, Marvin P. (1980). The Hutterites and their agriculture: 100 years in South Dakota. Brookings, SD: Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University.
92. Riley, Marvin P., & Johnson, Darryll R. (1970). South Dakota's Hutterite colonies, 1874-1969. Brookings, SD: Rural Sociology Dept., South Dakota State University.
93. Riley, Marvin P., & Stewart, James R. (1966). The Hutterites: South Dakota's communal farmers. Brookings, SD: Rural Sociology, Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University.
94. Ryan, John. (1977). The agricultural economy of Manitoba Hutterite colonies. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart in association with the Institute of Canadian Studies.
95. Satterlee, James L. (1993). The Hutterites: a study in cultural diversity. Brookings, SD: Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University.
96. Serl, Vernon C. (1958). Final report on the Saskatchewan Hutterite program. . (publishing information not given).
97. Shenker, Barry. (1986). Intentional communities: ideology and alienation in communal societies. London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
98. Smith, C. Henry. (1941). The story of the Mennonites. Berne, IN: Mennonite Book Concern. (Note: one chapter focuses on Hutterites, and much information relevant to Hutterites appears elsewhere in the book).
99. Smith, C. Henry. (1945). The story of the Mennonites. (2nd ed.). Berne, IN: Mennonite Book Concern. (Note: one chapter focuses on Hutterites, and much information relevant to Hutterites appears elsewhere in the book).
100. Smith, C. Henry, & Krahn, Cornelius. (1950). The story of the Mennonites. (3rd ed.). Newton, KS: Mennonite Publication Office. (Note: one chapter focuses on Hutterites, and much information relevant to Hutterites appears elsewhere in the book).
101. Smith, C. Henry, & Krahn, Cornelius. (1957). The story of the Mennonites. (4th ed.). Newton, KS: Mennonite Publication Office. (Note: chapter 7, pages 346-383, focuses on Hutterites, and much information relevant to Hutterites appears elsewhere in the book).
102. Smith, C. Henry, & Krahn, Cornelius. (1981). Smith's story of the Mennonites. (5th ed.). Newton, KS: Faith and Life Press. (Note: chapter 7, pages 225-248, focuses on Hutterites, and much information relevant to Hutterites appears elsewhere in the book).
103. Smith, Hugh Alan. (2001). When lightning strikes. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press. (Note: The author informed me that this historical novel is set during the 1874 Hutterite migration from the Russian Ukraine to the United States, and that he used information from two diaries kept by Hutterites enroute.)
104. Smucker, Donovan E. (1977-1991). The sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites , and Amish: a bibliography with annotations (Vols. 1-2). Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
105. Society of Brothers. (Eds.). (1975). Children in community (2nd. ed.). Rifton, NY: Plough Pub. House.
106. South Dakota. Legislature. State Legislative Research Council. (1973). Hutterite education; staff memorandum. Pierre, SD: Author.
107. Stahl, John; Vetter, Joseph; & Murphy, Patrick (Eds.). (1996). Hutterite CO's in World War One: stories, diaries and other accounts from the United States military camps. Hawley, MN: Spring Prairie Printing. (Note: Karl Peter & Franziska Peter - translators, conscientious objectors).
108. Stahl, John; Wipf, Joseph K. (Eds.). (1999). Hutterite CO's in World War One: stories, diaries and other accounts from the United States military camps. Hawley, MN: Spring Prairie Printing. (Note: Karl Peter & Franziska Peter - translators, conscientious objectors).
109. Stahl, Lisa Marie & Crummett, Michael. (2003). My Hutterite life. Helena, MT: Farcountry Press. (Note: Lisa Marie Stahl grew up at the Gildford Colony near Havre Montana and her text originally appeared as articles in the Great Falls Tribune, Montana.  Michael Crummett wrote the foreward and contributed the photography. More information about this book can be found by searching "Lisa Marie Stahl" on LibraryThing.).
110. Stahl, Mary. (1986). A love letter to my people the Hutterites. Sunburst, MT: Mary Stahl. (Note: 23 pages, regarding Hofer, Katie D. - 1908-1986)
111. Stephenson, Peter H. (1991). The Hutterian people: ritual and rebirth in the evolution of communal life. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
112. Stucky, Naomi R. (1990). Sara's summer. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press. (Note: fiction).
113. Towne, Marian Kleinsasser. (1994). Bread of life: diaries and memories of a Dakota family, 1936-1945. Freeman, SD: Pine Hill Press.
114. Towne, Marian Kleinsasser. (1999). Jacob Hutter's friends: twelve narrative voices from Switzerland to South Dakota over four centuries. Indianapolis, Freeman, SD: Pine Hill Press. (Note: historical fiction).
115. Tschetter, Peter S. (1966). Hutterian Brethren of yesterday and today; Approved by the Mixburn Colony, Hutterian Brethren. A true history of Christians and non-Christians; a guide for those who want to be guided. Minburn: Author.
116. Waltner, Emil J. (1968). Banished for faith. Freeman, SD: Pine Hill Press.
117. Webber, George. (2005). A world within: an intimate portrait of the Little Bow Hutterite Colony. Calgary: Fifth House Ltd.
118. Whitworth, John McKelvie. (1975). God's blueprints: a sociological study of three utopian sects London: Routledge and K. Paul.
119. Wilson, Laura. (2000). Hutterites of Montana. New Haven: Yale University Press. 
120. Youmans, Vance Joseph. (1995). The plough and the pen: Paul S. Gross and the establishment of the Spokane Hutterian Brethren. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers.

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