Book Notes

The fourth issue of Rhubarb, prepared on the theme of "Place" is now off the press. It was released at a meeting with the Steinbach Arts Council on Friday, 5 November, and a Mennonite Literary Society fundraising event held at Crossways Church in Winnipeg on 7 November. To order contact Rhubarb, MLS, 200 Lenore St., Winnipeg, MB R3C 2C5 or phone Glenn Bergen at 204 888-6781.

Just off the press is Dr. Jack Thiessen's Mennonitisch-Plautdeutsches Wörterbuch/Mennonite Low German Dictionary, published under the auspices of Hanover Steinbach Historical Society (Steinbach, MB, 1999), pb., 518 pp., $30.00. To order contact Mennonite Books or phone Gil Brandt at 204-669-4439.

Items in progress include a book on the descendants of Jacob Hoeppner (delegate to New Russia in 1786), edited by Pauline Heppner of Sardis, B.C.; a translation of Gerhard Lohrenz's Sagradowka in the Echo Verlag series, by CMBC Publications; a book on William Hespeler by Dr. Angelika Sauer, Chair of German Canadian Studies, University of Winnipeg; a history of Plum Coulee, edited by Cleo Heinrichs; a book on special events and people among Mennonites of Russia, by Dr. Helmut Hubert, of Winnipeg; and Vol.III of the West Reserve Historical Series, edited by Adolf Ens, Otto Hamm, and Jacob Peters of our Society.

Choices: Mennonites of Manitoba are celebrating their 125^th anniversary of coming to this province. They are definite that it is the correct number of years they have been here. At the same time the world is gearing up for the celebration of the end of the millennium and the beginning of another. However, here there is not the same certainty. There has often been this ambiguity about the beginning and the end of a century and millennium. They include 100 years and 1000 years. There are two choices:

a. The beginning year is year zero and the end would therefore be year ninety-nine or nine hundred ninety-nine. There has always been some difficulty in defining year zero.

b. The beginning year is year one and the end would therefore be year one hundred or one thousand.

If one chooses a. then the century and millennium would end at the end of this year. If one chooses b. then the century and millennium would end on 31 December 2000. Which would you choose? Send your replies to the editors.

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