This study applies the community model to examine German life in Winnipeg from its beginnings to the end of World War I. Emphasis is on the organizational and territorial dimensions of the community, with stress on residential patterns and the growth of local German institutions. These are examined with reference to the network of influences affecting their development. In the study Dr Grenke finds the church the centre of this community whose terminus was to be rural settlement on the prairies of Western Canada. This church influence constricted secular organization and institutional life, while political parties exercized control over the German language press.

The German Community in Winnipeg 1872 to 1919 (IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA)

Politics & Social Sciences

Grenke, Arthur

Social Sciences

Ams Pr Inc

What are the similarities between the mass extermination of idolaters in the Old Testament, the burning of witches in the Middle Ages, the extermination of native Americans, the mass killing of the Armenians at the hand of the Turks, the Holo- caust of the European Jews, and the communist eradication of the enemies of the people both in the Soviet Union and Cambodia? Are these to be seen as unique cases, or as the result of a recognizable pattern. The author provides insight into these questions, basing his argument on the latest sources. He maintains that the study of the dynamics that lead to mass destruction may provide a better understanding of the holocaust as a recurrent phenomenon.

God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust Through the Centuries

History

World

New Academia Publishing/ The Spring

This book explores the relationship in the biblical record between reward, punishment and salvation. How do we get from the promise of the next best thing to Paradise in the Holy Land, at the beginning of the Bible, to the promise of Heaven and the New Jerusalem, at its end? Why, with the founding of ancient Israel, are original inhabitants of Palestine slaughtered so that the Israelite's might enjoy God's rewards? Why, in the last Book of the Bible, are non-believers condemned to Hell while true believers are rewarded with eternal bliss? Might this have something to do with the role of reward and punishment in God's relationship with humanity, or, more specifically, God's relationship with the people of Israel? Might it have something to do with God failing His people rather than the opposite? The study shows that the answer is embedded in the biblical record-as it evolves from the Book of Joshua, at the beginning of Scripture, to the Book of Revelation, at its end. "Dr. Grenke's book is an original way of looking at an important dimension of Jewish and Christian reading of a crucial theme in the Bible. The two "visions of salvation" discussed by him have had, and in many respects still have, an enormous influence on the Judeo-Christian world." -Prof. Reinhard Pummer, University of Ottawa.

From the Holy Land to the New Jerusalem

Religion & Spirituality

New Academia Pub Llc

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