ABSTRACT
The great crisis brought about some radical changes in the Bruderhof movement. Its numerical scope, the number of communes that were then concentrated in the United States, and the multinational composition of its membership, which had so characterized the movement, were all diminished. The period of the movement’s rehabilitation began in 1963 and the most significant event of that period was the return of some 200 members who had left the movement during the crisis. In 1965, a crisis erupted in the wake of a lack of consensus on the necessity for an air link between the New York and Pennsylvania communities. The new community at Darvell was not immune to the social crises that had beset the older settlements and a short time after its establishment, it underwent a social crisis that was brought upon it by the local leadership.
