Music of Christian Minorities

Mennonites are the descendants of the Anabaptists of the early Reformation, emphasizing adult baptism, pacifism, and separation of church and state. One portion of the Mennonites of North America came from Switzerland and South Germany to Pennsylvania in the seventeenth century, with two thousand of them moving to Ontario after the American Revolution. The other portion originated in Holland and northern Germany, fled persecution by finding refuge in Poland, migrated to southern Russia...