Hutterite Studies was first published in 1961 in honour of Robert Friedmann's 70th birthday. It is a collection of the historian's most important works on the Hutterites. It spans history, the basis for their faith, daily life and literature of the Hutterites; it includes biographies of important Hutterite leaders. Robert Friedmann is one of those historians whose texts give the sense that the writer's personal life is not only touched, but enriched by the object of research, and that the presentation of the research would be far less spirited without those personal experiences.