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The Armenian Genocide. Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors
Svazlian is an ethnographer and folklorist at the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Since the mid-1950s she interviewed Armenian survivors of the Turkish Genocide of Armenians. Those efforts are presented in this volume. It is a courageous work for the most part done in the Armenian S.S.R. and Turkey where Svazlian's inquiries entailed risk to herself and her interviewees. Svazlian also collected the songs these survivors had brought with them from their cities and villages of origin. Many are responses to the Genocide itself.The interviews are short but their very large number and pointedness capture the personal horrors of the gneocide very well. This book makes a unique and invaluable contribution to genocide documentation.C O N T E N T S for Volume 1:ForewordPart One: H I S T O R I C A L S T U D YI.The Genre and Typological Peculiarities of the Historical Testimonies of the Eyewitness SurvivorsII.The Course of the Armenian Genocide According to the Historical Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors BibliographyPart Two: H I S T O R I C A L P R I M A R Y S O U R C E SI. HISTORICAL MEMOIR-TESTIMONIES.Will be continued in volume 2
The Armenian Genocide
World War I was a watershed, a defining moment, in Armenian history. Its effects were unprecedented in that it resulted in what no other war, invasion, or occupation had achieved in three thousand years of identifiable Armenian existence. This calamity was the physical elimination of the Armenian people and most of the evidence of their ever having lived on the great Armenian Plateau, to which the perpetrator side soon gave the new name of Eastern Anatolia. The bearers of an impressive martial and cultural history, the Armenians had also known repeated trials and tribulations, waves of massacre, captivity, and exile, but even in the darkest of times there had always been enough remaining to ...
The Armenian Genocide. Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors
Svazlian is an ethnographer and folklorist at the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Since the mid-1950s she interviewed Armenian survivors of the Turkish Genocide of Armenians.Those efforts are presented in this volume. It is a courageous work for the most part done in the Armenian S.S.R. and Turkey where Svazlian's inquiries entailed risk to herself and her interviewees. Svazlian also collected the songs these survivors had brought with them from their cities and villages of origin. Many are responses to the Genocide itself.The interviews are short but their very large number and pointedness capture the personal horrors of the gneocide very well. This book makes a unique and invaluable contribu...
The Armenian Genocide
The present work includes the primary-source popular oral testimonies of historical nature, the memoirs, the narratives, the Armenian- and Turkish-language songs (700 units) written down, audio- and video- recorded by the author from the eye-witness survivors of the Armenian Genocide deported from Western Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia and resettled in Armenia and in the various countries of the world. The tragic life episodes fallen to the lot of the Western Armenians, as well as their noble and righteous struggle to protect their elementary human rights for living are presented in this academic study on the grounds of historical and ethnographical data. The collection is supplied also with ...
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Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor
This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians. The authors draw on documentary material and fieldwork carried out in 2013-2019 among Syrian Armenians in Armenian and Lebanese urban settings. The stories of Syrian Armenians reveal how contemporary events are seen to have direct links to the past and to reproduce memories associated with the Armenian genocide; the contemporary involvement of Turkey in the Syrian war, for example, is seen on the ground as an attempt to control the Armenian presence in Syria. Today, the Syrian Armenian identity encapsulates the complex intersection of memory, transnational links...
The Armenian Genocide: Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors
The present work includes the primary-source popular oral testimonies of historical nature, the memoirs, the narrativesrecorded by the auhtor from the eye-witness survivors of the Armenian Genocide deported from Western Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia and resettled in Armenia and in the various countries of the world. The collection is supplied also with notations of the historical songs in a number of languages. In the volume 2 of this book you can find the Armenian- and Turkish-language songs (700 units) written downfrom the eye-witness survivors of the Armenian Genocide deported from Western Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia and resettled in Armenia and in the various countries of the world. Th...
