Bibliography of Sixteenth-Century Anabaptist Materials Available in English and Spanish Translations
This bibliography does not presume to be exhaustive. It contains material gleaned from general bibliographies, gathered from other works, and pulled from the shelves of the Mennonite Historical Library. A “G” following a citation indicates that the work is available in the MHL; call numbers have been included where available. An asterisk means that the MHL has a photocopy. The works cited may be in the MHL, even if this bibliography does not indicate it.
A second section contains several documents which have been translated into Spanish. As researchers find more translated documents, whether in English or in Spanish, this bibliography can be updated.
Mennonite Life Bibliographies
Mennonite Life has traditionally published an annual Mennonite Bibliography, attempting to apprise readers of recently published material of interest to Mennonite studies, and recent acquisitions by Mennonite libraries. The first bibliography, from the April 1947 issue, comprised a page and a half of listings. The last print bibliography, from the June 1999 issue, ran to sixteen and a half pages.
The Mennonite Life annual bibliographies serve as a useful supplement and continuation of Nelson P. Springer and A. J. Klassen, Mennonite Bibliography 1631-1961, 2 vols. (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1977).
If you would like to do a search of only the bibliographies, use
“site:https://mla.bethelks.edu/ml-archive/bibliographies/”
as your first search term in a Google search, followed by whatever search terms you are actually searching. The returned results will include only hits from the Mennonite Life bibliography pages.
Mennonite and Amish Folklore and Folklore Arts
By Dr. Ervin Beck, Professor Emeritus of English, Goshen College, Indiana
Foreword
Because so many elements of Amish and Mennonite culture are transmitted orally or by customary example, it is often difficult to draw the line between folk and other spheres of Mennonite and Amish culture. Although this bibliography is of necessity selective, it errs in the direction of inclusivity. Some principles used in selecting items for the bibliography include the following:
Secondary reports/analyses prevail, although primary sources are sometimes included for under-researched areas. Similarly, every effort has been made to include all available scholarly studies, although many popular sources are also included.
The bibliography is relatively complete for items published since 1980; less complete for earlier years. A few items lack important bibliographical information; the compiler welcomes corrections by email.
The bibliography does not regularly include items on the Hutterites, nor on Mennonites or Amish in Europe — unless such items deal with aspects of culture that have also been brought to North America. Nor does the bibliography include cookbooks, unless they also contain information on folk cultural contexts.
The borderline between folk and sociological and anthropological studies is problematic. Some sociological and anthropological studies are included, especially if they appear in the annual bibliographies for Folklore published by the Modern Language Association.
https://www.goshen.edu/academics/english/ervinb/mennonite-folklore/
Mennonites Writing Bibliographies (to 2024), North America
The Canadian Bibliography grew from a nucleus assembled by Hildi Froese Tiessen, Professor of English Emerita at Conrad Grebel University College, in 1997, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada. It was maintained from 1997-2018 by Ervin Beck, Professor of English Emeritus at Goshen College.
The U.S. Bibliography was originally prepared for the “Mennonite/s Writing in the U.S.” conference, which was sponsored by the English Department of Goshen College and held there from 23-26 October 1997. It was created and maintained from 1997-2018 by Ervin Beck. Linda Kimpel, Linda Rouch, Ann Hostetler, and others at Goshen College provided technical assistance. Both Bibliographies have been maintained since August 2018 by Beck’s former student Daniel Shank Cruz.
The General Bibliography includes critical and theoretical work about Mennonite literature that does not examine individual authors, but discusses the field as a whole or examines multiple authors together. It was created as a separate entity in August 2018 by Daniel Shank Cruz from sections formerly housed in the Mennonite/s Writing in Canada and Mennonite/s Writing in the U.S. Bibliographies.
Mennonite Bibliography, 2021
Compiled by Barbara A. Thiesen, Mennonite Library & Archives, Bethel College (MLA) in 2021.
Assisted by Carrie Phillips, Musselman Library and the Mennonite Historical Collections, Bluffton University (BLU), Audrey Shenk, Menno Simons Historical Library/Archives, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU); Kevin Enns-Rempel, Mennonite Library and Archives, Fresno Pacific University (FRE); Vic Froese, Mennonite Historical Library, Canadian Mennonite University (CMU); Joe Springer, Mennonite Historical Library, Goshen College (MHL); Dorothy Gebert, Columbia Bible College Library (CBC).
The Mennonite Bibliography, 2021 consists of titles published in 2021 that were acquired by the contributing libraries in 2021. Also included are titles acquired in 2021, published prior to that year, but not included in previous Mennonite Life bibliographies. The three-letter symbols after each entry indicate which libraries owned copies of the titles at the time the bibliography was compiled.
Mennonite Historical Library
Mennonite Heritage Archives, Host of MAID, Mennonite Heritage Archives and Information Database, and posted by the Archivist,Conrad Stoetz.
Mennonite Historical Library and Archives are located at 610 Shaftesbury Blvd., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
As an inter-Mennonite facility the Mennonite Heritage Archives holds the records of individuals, families, congregations, and organizations within the Mennonite community. As a part of Canadian Mennonite University, Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies, and Mennonite Church Canada, the Mennonite Heritage Archives the official repository of the following organizations:
Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization (CMBofC)
Christian Mennonite Conference – Waisenamt Archive (CMC)
(formerly Chortizer Mennonite Conference)
Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC)
Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference (EMMC)
Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society (MMHS)
Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba (MCC Manitoba)
Mennonite Central Committee Canada (MCC Canada)
Mennonite Church Manitoba (MC Manitoba)
Mennonite Church Canada (MC Canada)
Mennonite Historical Society of Canada (MHSC)
Westgate Mennonite Collegiate (WMC)
The archives specializes in the preservation of Prussian, Russian, and Canadian Mennonite community documents.