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‘US Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story’ Named Book of the Month

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'Ambassador Morgenthau's Story' by Henry Morgenthau

‘Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story’ by Henry Morgenthau

YEREVAN (Armenpress)—As the centennial of the Armenian Genocide approaches, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan has launched a “Book of the Month” initiative. The Museum says it will carefully select a book about the Armenian Genocide to be featured each month.

The books must be the memoirs of Armenian Genocide survivors or witnesses, research papers, or other publications of great importance. The aim of this project is to introduce readers to rare and still unknown works related to the topic in order to raise awareness of the subject and provide an in-depth knowledge about the Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) selected “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story” to be the Book of the Month for February. These memoirs have the significance of being a unique primary source for the history of the Armenian Genocide, particularly for how it documents the unraveling of the Genocide, determined and planned by the Turkish government, and for how it identifies and explores the thoughts of the Turkish criminal regime of that time. The memoir of U.S. Ambassador Morgenthau is a monumental work indeed, where the represented facts and testimonies undeniably prove that the Armenian Genocide was planned and premeditated.

Morgenthau gives deep analysis of the situation reinforcing it by information from official sources. Moreover, he describes the process of decision-making, the intrigues of the Young Turks government, as well as introduces the reader to the German propaganda policy, which made Turkey involved in World War I. The story of Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, presented in accuracy of an eyewitness and an analyst, is an important primary source against the policy of denial in Turkish modern historiography.

“When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. . . I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915,” Morgenthau wrote in his memoirs.

Book German Complicity in Genocide: the role of Germany in the extermination of the Armenians

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Book German Complicity, in Armenian Genocide

Book German Complicity, in Armenian Genocide

Beihilfe zum Völkermord: Deutschlands Rolle der bei der Vernichtung Armenier Gebundene Ausgabe – 25. Februar 2015 von Jürgen Gottschlich (Author)

One hundred years after the atrocities committed against the Armenians in Turkey, the author and journalist Jürgen Gottschlich accuses Germany of “complicity in genocide”.

It is clear that the military and German diplomats were aware the Ottoman Empire massacre and deportation of Armenians said Jürgen Gottschlich in Istanbul.

The book “complicity in genocide” of the newspaper’s correspondent “Tageszeitung” (“taz”) appears in Istanbul on Thursday.

Jürgen Gottschlich criticized the fact that Germany has barely addressed the question of its role in the extermination of the Armenians.

Jürgen Gottschlich visited the scene of the events, interviewed the descendants of the families, as explored by German and Turkish archives. The result is a fascinating historical documentary that exposes the whole dimension of German participation in the genocide and the controversy that exists around these events so far.

Thursday, February 19, 2015,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Adana, 1909: New book on Genocide published in Turkey

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Adana, massacres of 20,000 Armenians 1909

Adana, massacres of 20,000 Armenians 1909

A book providing a fresh insight into the history of the Armenian Genocide has been published in Turkey to introduce witness testimonies depicting the massacres of 20,000 Armenians.
Entitled “1909 Adana Pogroms: Three Reports”, the book comprises three major documents which gained importance after wide-ranging debates in Ottoman Empire and worldwide. It sheds light on the pogroms that started from Adana and later expanded to Kilis and Zeytun. Ari Shekerian has translated the book from the Ottoman language. It also contains photos taken in more than 40 regions.

The author of the preface is Turkish historian Tener Akcam. The reports by Karapet Chalian, Artin Aslanian and Hakob Papikian were published 106 years after the mass killings.
The authors’ biographies add interest to the historic records.

Papikyan, who was in a fact-finding mission dispatched to Adana after the pogroms, passed away in rather suspicious circumstances a day before the report was made public.

Chalian, who was considered a founder of Ittihat ve Teraki (secret society established as the Committee of Ottoman Union), was killed in 1920. Aslanian rejected to give any testimony and later fled to Egypt, where he wrote the report.

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Video, Interview Author Matthew Karanian Book “Historic Armenia”

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By Wally Sarkeesian

The ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years “(100 Years Later Date Armenia) has published a travel book.

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Historic Armenia book

100 years ago the world’s scattered throughout, without forgetting where they came with a history of bitter memory of where they go, for most Armenians entered into a new life building efforts while preserving their own culture, this land we live on, due to the many emotions. Some fear, curiosity for some, but perhaps not knowing the ending for four generations and the most restless longing …

In recent years, accompanied by all these feelings and listen to their family history, especially in Diyarbakır, Van, eastern provinces, such as the number of visitors has increased considerably in Kars. America, Europe, the Middle East and the individual trips and group trips organized by Armenia, thus building a bridge between the past and the present and future. This is one of the long journey that perform second generation Armenian American Matthew Karani, the ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years “(100 Years Later Date Armenia) has published a travel book.

Yesterday and today

History of “Western Armenia” land of the 6 provinces of Van, Erzurum, Harput, Bitlis, Diyarbakir and Sivas; ‘Eastern Armenian Region’ Ani, Kars provinces, also Sason important centers Gürün, Cunkuş, Zara, Mus, Erzincan, from Egin, the author enriched he shot 125 photos and map book, a guide for those who want to travel to this region. Karani, the church, the monastery and told the history of the village; In 100 cases the previous year and the current razed a book that reveals the circumstances been, ‘Hidden Armenians’ has prepared a section called.

since 1915, eliminating many of the cultural monument removed or used for other purposes that emphasizes the Karani, a journey of discovery that challenges the devastation promises. For those who can not return to their homeland, the old and the new way to book presents detailed been illustrated, this aspect is not just a travel guide, navigate from himself.

Among the reasons that make this trip special book, you can go to the area of ​​how to book, where you can visit, the proposal on how to assess your time day to day taking place. Karani, the first part of the journey to a page in the book will commemorate Hrant Dink said.

Those who want to get the book, the following addresses can learn.

‘East and a life devoted to Western Armenia

Matthew Karani who received legal training in California, lived and worked for many years in Armenia. Karani, who teaches law at American University in Yerevan that, since 2003, with a law student magazine ‘Armenian Law Review’ began to remove. US and Canada in various magazines, articles have been published that describe Armenia. Since 1995, the research, ‘the Eastern and Western Armenia was organized many trips. A previous study of the Karanian, after traveling again penned in English ‘in Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide’ (Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide) was the book.

Video: Gagrule.net Interveiw with Professor Siranush Galstyan, Armenian Cinema Book

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Quick Overview

siranush-bookThis book is the first English language study of Armenian cinema. It is divided into twelve chapters, followed by an appendix on animation.

Chapter 1 explores the birth of cinema in Armenia in 1899 with a screening in Yerevan and provides the setting for the following survey. Chapter 2 is dedicated to the founder of the Armenian cinema, Hamo Beknazaryan, whose work represents an entire era not only of Armenian but also in Soviet cinema, since his name stands alongside those of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, and other great filmmakers. Chapter 3 concerns other works created during the silent period in Armenia. Chapter 4 discusses the processes of Armenian cinema in the Stalin era, broadly covering the period from 1930 to 1959. New filmmakers appeared on the stage during those years. The role of the short film genre is mentioned, as well as films that were shelved by Soviet censorship. Chapter 5 analyzes the most significant films for the subsequent rise of Armenian cinema as well as musical films. Chapters 6 and 7 are devoted to prominent filmakers, Sergei Parajanov and Artavazd Peleshyan, subjecting their works to theoretical and morphological analyses

 

Siranush Galstyan

Professor Siranush Galstyan received her degree from the Yerevan State (the former Yerevan State Polytechnic Institute) in 1991. In 1999 she graduated from the School of History of Cinema, Theory and Film Criticism at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema. In 2008, she completed her doctoral thesis “Metaphors, Symbols and Allegory in Armenian Cinema,” at the Institute of Arts in the Academy of Sciences of Armenia in Yerevan. Since 1995, she had been contributing critical and theoretical articles to various newspapers and magazines in Armenia. Some of her work has also been published abroad. Beginning in 1999, she has lectured on the History of Film at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema and, since 2002, at the Yerevan State University. She has been a member of the FIRESCI since 2000 and the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia since 2007. She has also participated as FIPRESCI jury member at different film festivals.

To order the book contact: Mazda publishers  English Version

 To order the book contact:  book.am                 Armenian Version

Siranush article on Parajanov in Italian magazine CINERGIE http://www.cinergie.it/?p=4879

Just published Pinar Selek: Because they are Armenians

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selek-2-197x303Just published by Editions Liana Levi’s new book Pinar Selek, because they are Armenians, she said: “My book is a small token. But a cry too. »

April 2015 will mark the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. A black page in Turkish history, still controversial, still taboo. Pinar Selek, born in the 70s, offers a personal narrative, woven memories and encounters … With it, we earn from 

within the meaning build reciting in school slogans proclaiming national superiority, studying lying on textbooks, cutting through a city where Armenian names were erased signs …

Committed sociologist, writer and Turkish activist Pinar Selek was accused of terrorism in 1998 because of his work on minorities (prostitutes, transvestites …), Kurdish militants, the army … who disturb power. She lives for over 16 years a true judicial harassment. Her feminist work, militarism continues in France, where she lived in exile since 2012. She is currently conducting research on space militant Turkish and Armenian diaspora movements at ENS Lyon.

arton107799-475x394Big Table Pinar Selek receives, sociologist, writer and Turkish activist in exile in France since 2011, author of several essays, a novel The House of the Bosphorus (Liana Levi, 2013), with a thesis on the emancipation movements Turkey. She is now a researcher attached to the ENS de Lyon and publishes Because they are Armenians (Editions Liana Levi, February 2015). With philosopher Michel Marian, working for many years on the issue of Armenia, member of the editorial board of the journal Esprit, contributor to magazine News from Armenia and co-author with Ahmet Insel Dialogue on Armenian taboo (Liana Levi, 2009).

Thursday, February 5, 2015,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com

France ALFORTVILLE The book Talaat – Exhibition Opening

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EXHIBITION CONFERENCE

arton107732-387x480THE BOOK TALAAT

Exhibition Opening, Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 20H

Cultural Center “The 148”

148 rue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94140 Alfortville

by the Senator and Mayor of Alfortville, Luc Carvounas,

followed by a Conference

Ara Sarafian,

Historian and director of the Gomidas Institute in London, will present its work and analyzes book.

Expo Hours: 6 to 13 February 2015, from 10h to 19h

Monthly History devotes a 50-page dossier on “Armenians XXᵉ the first genocide of the century”

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arton107318-260x364Monthly History (No. 408 dated February 2015) just spent a record 50 pages on the Armenian genocide on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. “There are a hundred years the government of the Young Turks committed the first genocide of the twentieth century decimated the Armenian community, yet well integrated into the Ottoman Empire. We understand better now the ideology that motivated managers and mechanics of the relentless massacre. Boris Adjemian, Taner Akcam, Annette Becker, Hamit Bozarslan Pierre Chuvin, Duclert Vincent, François Georgeon Raymond Kevorkian, Claire Mouradian, Mikaël Nichanian and Yves Ternon “written history. Available from all newsagents (6.40 euros).

Krikor Amirzayan

Robert Mirak – Genocide Survivors, Community Builders: The Family of John and Artemis Mirak

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Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF) Genocide Memories Release Date

The Armenian Weekly , 

community-acf-PHOTOARLINGTON, Mass. – Genocide Survivors, Community Builders: The Family of John and Artemis Mirak is the story of two Armenian orphans taken from their homes in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide, and lives in New York, where they became a example of courage and success in their non-Armenian community and Armenian.

The family history was written by their eldest son, Dr. Robert Mirak, author of Torn Between Two Lands: Armenians in America, 1890 to World War I (Harvard University Press, 1983). At the center is Zaven Mirakian (now John Mirak), a tireless businessman, ambitious and talented, who started from nothing, builds an impressive and innovative automotive company Mirak Chevrolet and associates, for which he was recognized local and national level. He also enjoyed success in major real estate projects around Boston. It has even devoted his time and resources to a variety of charities since the city of Arlington in favor of Armenian community organizations, as well as hospitals and clinics worldwide. His wife, Artemis (née Aramian) not only helped her husband in his business, but while he was overseas during World War II, it has also raised their four children, encouraging them to pursue studies graduate and succeed.

This book is also a study in terms of acculturation, tracing the evolution of the family, his immigrant origins to the middle and upper class. It highlights the tensions of the second generation, caught between the cultures of the Old World to one side, and the New World on the other. It also shows how children and grandchildren of the founders maintained family service traditions, especially with the Armenian community in the United States and Armenia.

Published by the Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF) in Arlington, this illustrated study is available at the headquarters of the ACF, 441 Mystic St., Arlington, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), 395 Concord Ave . Belmont (MA).

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Source: http://armenianweekly.com/2014/05/08/acf-releases-genocide-memoir/

Translation: © Georges Festa – 01.2015

100 years after the ancient land journey “Historic Armenia” ANI, KARS, VAN & the 6 provinces

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gezi rehberiAmerica, Europe, the Middle East and Armenia Diyarbakır, Van, eastern provinces such as Kars trips organized individual and group travel, thus building a bridge between the past and the present and future. This is one of the long journey that perform second generation Armenian American Matthew Karani, the ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years “(100 Years Later Date Armenia) has published a travel book.

100 years ago the world’s scattered throughout, without forgetting where they came with a history of bitter memory of where they go, for most Armenians entered into a new life building efforts while preserving their own culture, this land we live on, due to the many emotions. Some fear, curiosity for some, but perhaps not knowing the ending for four generations and the most restless longing …

In recent years, accompanied by all these feelings and listen to their family history, especially in Diyarbakır, Van, eastern provinces, such as the number of visitors has increased considerably in Kars. America, Europe, the Middle East and the individual trips and group trips organized by Armenia, thus building a bridge between the past and the present and future. This is one of the long journey that perform second generation Armenian American Matthew Karani, the ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years “(100 Years Later Date Armenia) has published a travel book.

Yesterday and today

History of “Western Armenia” land of the 6 provinces of Van, Erzurum, Harput, Bitlis, Diyarbakir and Sivas; ‘Eastern Armenian Region’ Ani, Kars provinces, also Sason important centers Gürün, Cunkuş, Zara, Mus, Erzincan, from Egin, the author enriched he shot 125 photos and map book, a guide for those who want to travel to this region. Karani, the church, the monastery and told the history of the village; In 100 cases the previous year and the current razed a book that reveals the circumstances been, ‘Hidden Armenians’ has prepared a section called.

AuthorPhoto1_edited-2Since 1915, eliminating many of the cultural monument removed or used for other purposes that emphasizes the Karani, a journey of discovery that challenges the devastation promises. For those who can not return to their homeland, the old and the new way to book presents detailed been illustrated, this aspect is not just a travel guide, navigate from himself.

Among the reasons that make this trip special book, you can go to the area of ​​how to book, where you can visit, the proposal on how to assess your time day to day taking place. Karani, the first part of the journey to a page in the book will commemorate Hrant Dink said.

Those who want to get the book, the following addresses can learn.

‘East and a life devoted to Western Armenia

Matthew Karani who received legal training in California, lived and worked for many years in Armenia. Karani, who teaches law at American University in Yerevan that, since 2003, with a law student magazine ‘Armenian Law Review’ began to remove. US and Canada in various magazines, articles have been published that describe Armenia. Since 1995, the research, ‘the Eastern and Western Armenia was organized many trips. A previous study of the Karanian, after traveling again penned in English ‘in Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide’ (Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide) was the book.