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Gomidas
Institute Books
Ara Sarafian (comp., ed. and intro.)
Talaat Pasha's Report on
the Armenian Genocide
This work is a serious appraisal of a report found in the possession of Talaat
Pasha, the Ottoman Minister of Interior responsible for the Armenian
Genocide of 1915. It concludes that the report was a confidential account of
the Armenian Genocide based on Ottoman records. It presents Talaat's data in all details
and includes additional materials such as two illustrative
color maps and appendixes.
More information... including a free pdf download
Stepan Mnatsakanian
Aghtamar: A Jewel of Medieval
Armenian Architecture
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Ahtamar: Ortaçag Ermeni Mimarliginin
Mucevheri, comp. ed and intro. by Ara Sarafian and Osman Koker
A bi-lingual English and Armenian
publication.
The 10th century Armenian church of the Holy Cross (Surp
Khach) on Aghtamar island is one of the most important architectural sites
in Turkey. With its unique sculptural carvings depicting a complex of
biblical and secular themes, this church is a jewel of medieval Armenian
and early Christian art and architecture.
Based on a variety of
sources from the 10th to the 20th centuries, this book gives a fascinating
history of the church of the Holy Cross and includes invaluable
architectural drawings and color photographs that allow readers to follow
the complex sculptural narratives with great ease.
Aghtamar book
launched in Van and Istanbul (press release)
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 Mario
Carolla,
Vatican Diplomacy and
the Armenian Question: The Holy See’s Response to the Republic of Armenia,
1918-1922
The Vatican state was well aware of the destruction of Ottoman
Armenians in 1915.
At the end of WWI, the Catholic church played a
leading role to
to help the new fledgling Republic of Armenia.
Vatican diplomats worked hard to harness support for Armenians, at
least in the Catholic world. Similarly, Armenian Catholics played an
important role in making these efforts fruitful.
This publication presents, for the first time, a detailed narrative of
the Vatican's involvement with Armenians, including original Vatican
documents which have never been subject to scholarly scrutiny before.
This work was translated from the original Italian by Cynthia Quilici.
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 Kim
McQuaid,
The Real and Assumed Personalities of Famous Men: Rafael De Nogales,
T. E. Lawrence, and the Birth of the Modern Era, 1914 - 1937
"What a life! Rafael De Nogales was one of the 20th century’s
great soldiers of fortune. A Venezuelan revolutionary, a Great Plains
cowboy, a Turkish army officer who witnessed the Armenian massacres, a
journalist who interviewed Sandino in the jungles of Nicaragua, and,
perhaps above all, a flamboyant and serial liar: Nogales was clearly a
man for our times. As Kim McQuaid argues in this fascinating book,
however, Nogales’s life was more than a mere adventure. He stood at the
nexus of the great problems of the era: bloody ethnic conflict, western
imperialism, the politics of big oil, the “entangled histories” of east
and west, and the rising nationalisms of the oppressed. Nogales never did
get the David Lean film he deserved, but McQuaid has done us all a service
by bringing this forgotten epic back to life."
--Dr. Rob Citino,
author of The Path to Blitzkrieg, Quest For Decisive Victory ;
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm , The German Way of
War , and The Death of the
Wehrmacht.
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 Rita
Soulahian Kuyumjian,
Teotig: Biography
(including a translation of Teotig's "Monument to April 11")
Teotig and his wife Arshagouhi represented
the cream of the Ottoman Armenian
intelligentsia around 1915. They were best
known for their annual publication
of "Everyone's Almanac" [Amenoun Daretsouytsu].
Teotig: Biography is a powerful and
moving biography of this husband and wife team, with a focus on their
ordeal in 1915 and its aftermath.
This work also includes an English translation of Teotig's
"paper monument" to the Armenian Genocide, the names
and biographies of 763 Armenian intellectuals
who fell victim to the events of 1915.
Part of series: Trilogy, 24 April
1915.
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 Aram
Andonian
Exile, Trauma and Death: On the Road to Chankiri with
Komitas Vartabed, transl. ed. and intro. by Rita Soulahian Kuyumjian
Aram Andonian is best known as the author of The Memoirs of Naim Bey, which
included purported copies of Talaat pasha's telegrams ordering the
destruction of Armenians. Less known is Andonian's personal account of the
arrest of Armenians on 24 April 1915. He himself was one of the people
arrested and sent into exile. However, unlike most other prisoners, he was
lucky and survived his ordeal to bear witness to what had happened to
others.
This book gives a detailed account of the
first days of the arrest of Armenian intellectuals in
the Ottoman capital and sheds light on their
fate, including Taniel Varoujan, Roupen Sevag, Siamanto, as well as
Komitas Vartabed and others.
Part of series: Trilogy, 24 April
1915.
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 Rita
Soulahian Kuyumjian,
The Survivor: Biography of Aram Andonian
Aram Andonian was a
journalist, book collector, artist and historian. His publications ranged
from literary pieces and children’s stories to a history of the Balkan Wars.
In 1918 he began the documentation of the Armenian Genocide and later became
a founding father of Armenian Genocide studies.
Part of series: Trilogy, 24 April
1915.
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 Rouben
Galichian,
The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia,
and the Showcasing
of Imagination
A timely documentation--and
reminder--of the ongoing destruction of Armenian cultural monuments in
Azerbaijan. Galichian has compiled a disturbing record with facts and
photographs. Included is a DVD of the destruction of the Armenian cemetery
of Julfa in 2006.
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 Yervant
Odian,
Accursed Years: My Exile and Return from Der Zor,
1914-1919
A fascinating account about the Armenian Genocide written
by a well known Armenian writer. Odian was exiled to Der Zor in 1915 and
survived to tell his story. In many ways a "silenced source", Odian's
account sheds light on many aspects of the Armenian Genocide that have not
been integrated into the secondary literature.
Accursed Years was originally serialised in
Jamanag (Constantinople), 1919. This is the first English translation of
this work.
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 Joan
George and with a foreword by Christopher J. Walker,
Merchants to Magnates, Intrigue and
Survival: Armenians in London, 1900-2000
This book is the first serious attempt to write a
popular history
of the Armenian community of London. It is both creditable and readable, and
the author sheds much light on many quirky and serious aspects of the
London Armenian community.
Written in a celebratory
style, the author exalts community activists and seems optimistic about the
future, a view not shared by all.
This work
follows Joan George's Merchants in Exile:
The Armenians of Manchester, England, 1835–1935
(Gomidas Institute, 2002).
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Paul Leverkuehn,
A German Officer during the Armenian Genocide: A
Biography of Max von Scheubner-Richter
(translated by Alasdair Lean with a preface
by Jorge Vartparonian and a historical introduction by
Hilmar Kaiser)
Max von Scheubner Richter
was the German vice-consul in Erzerum in Ottoman Turkey during the
destruction of Armenians in 1915 and a co-founder of the National Socialist
party in Germany, 1919. He was shot dead during the Munich putsch in
1923. This book focuses on his involvement with the Armenian Genocide of
1915.
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 Victoria Rowe,
A History of
Armenian Women’s Writing, 1880–1922
This classic, path-breaking volume
restores the pioneering generation of 19th and 20th
century Armenian women writers to their rightful place in the histories of
modern Armenian and Ottoman literatures. The author reconstructs the
biographies and bibliographies and analyzes the texts of six Armenian women
writers and contextualizes their works in the intellectual and cultural
milieus of the late Ottoman and Russian Empires.
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 Kemal
Yalçın,
You Rejoice My Heart
A moving account of the author's discovery, in Istanbul and the provinces,
of the pain, fear and suffering inflicted on Armenians in modern Turkey. In
many ways, this is the first social history of Armenians in Turkey today.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the
first Turkish edition of this work was
suppressed in Turkey.
Authorised translation
from the Turkish original. Specially published for the Tekeyan Cultural
Association by the Gomidas Institute.
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 Ghazaros
Aghayan (Agop
Hacikyan, transl. and intro., Talleen Hacikyan, illust.),
Tork Angegh
This book t ells
the story of a legendary Armenian folk hero who realizes the age-old dream
of the Armenian people: to live in peace and harmony with the other
inhabitants of the Earth. In this poetic translation there is something that
will delight everyone: children (who will revel in its story and
descriptions), art lovers (who will glory in its illustrations), students of
literature and folklore, and lovers of peace everywhere.
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“this publication will help educate
America's leaders and the general public about the Armenian Genocide.” —US
Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jr. and Joseph Knollenberg (March 2004)
 United
States Official Records on the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917,
comp., ed. and intro. by Ara Sarafian. A systematic collection of core
reports on the Armenian Genocide from Ottoman Turkey forwarded to the
United States State Department by US officials and others. These records
provided the backbone of western understanding of the Genocide while the
crime was still in progress in 1915.
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 Abram
I. Elkus,
The Memoirs of Abram I. Elkus:
Lawyer, Ambassador, Statesman with a commentary by Hilmar
Kaiser. Autobiography of a successful New York lawyer and judge,
later to become the last US ambassador to Ottoman Turkey in 1916-1917.
Today Elkus is best remembered for
saving thousands of Armenian lives as he continued the work of his
predecessor in Constantinople, Ambassador Morgenthau. After WWI he was
appointed a member of the League of Nations Commission to resolve the Aaland Islands dispute.
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 Henry
Morgenthau,
United
States Diplomacy on the Bosphorus: The Diaries of
Ambassador Morgenthau, 1913-1916, comp.,
ed. and intro. by Ara Sarafian.These
diaries provide the background to United States
diplomacy in the Near East, including Morgenthau's protection of
Armenians and Zionists in 1915. These diaries also provide us an
invaluable insight into the Armenian Genocide as it unfolded, as well
as Morgenthau's account of that genocide in his later memoirs Ambassador
Morgenthau's Story.
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"...a valuable source of firsthand
information composed in real time ...they offer a clear picture of
what the U.S. government knew."
—Haaretz
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valuable primary source"—Robert
Krikorian (George Washington University)
 Varteres
Mikael Garougian,
Destiny of the Dzidzernag: Autobiography
of Varteres Mikael Garougian, Mariam V. (Garougian)
Sahakian (transl., ed. and intro.). A first person account of an
Armenian patriot who joins the French Legion Armenienne, returns to
his native village of Khaoulakyough (Kharpert plain),
seeking surviving members of his family. By 1919 he is captured by
Turkish nationalists, drafted into the Kemalist forces, but eventually
escapes and settles in Racine, Wisconsin.
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 Second
Edition
James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee,
The
Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1916:
Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon by Viscount Bryce [Uncensored
Edition], edited and with an introduction by Ara
Sarafian.
"This
work emerges from Ara Sarafian’s examination as documentation of a
high order."
—Times Literary Supplement
"Meticulous
testimony and eye-witness accounts of Turkish mass-slaughter,
organised rape and ethnic cleansing."
—The
Independent (London)
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“A very fundamental study.”
—Richard G.
Hovannisian
(20 February 2004)
 Arman J. Kirakossian,
British Diplomacy and the Armenian Question, from the 1830s to
1914. Traces the development of British foreign policy regarding the Ottoman
Empire, its Armenian population, and other ethnic elements. This work is
the most comprehensive account of British policy towards Armenians
prior to WWI. The author is a historian by training and was the former
ambassador of Armenia to Washington.
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“Like no other survivor account. . . . An important document, an
engaging chronicle and a painful reminder of the human costs of war, mass killing and lost
homelands.” —The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review (10 January 2004)
 Vahram Dadrian,
To the
Desert: Pages from My Diary, trans. Agop Hacikyan; ed. and intro. Ara
Sarafian. The diary of a child in the Armenian Genocide. An unusual narrative, it descibes
the fate of thousands of Armenians who were sent not to Der Zor in 1915, but to
the wastelands south of Aleppo, as far as Maan and Es Salt in Jordan.
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"A compelling,
first-hand account of a crucial period in the formation of modern Armenia."
—Atom Egoyan
 Leonidas T.
Chrysanthopoulos,
Caucasus Chronicles: Nation-Building
and Diplomacy in Armenia, 1993–1994. A European ambassador recounts his
adventures in Armenia and describes European Union policy making and his dealings with
senior government officials and fellow diplomats.
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information....
"The book is
gripping. It reads like a travel book, yet it is the testimony of the first Greek
ambassador to newly independent Armenia. The work may come to be seen as one of the most
valuable first-hand sources for historians of the period for its frank, and at the same
time oddly diplomatic, insight into decision-making both in Athens and Yerevan."
—Transitions Online
[For the full review,
click
here].
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A
major contribution to the study of Armenian literature by one of the foremost authorities
in the field:
 Marc
Nichanian, Writers of Disaster: Armenian Literature in the Twentieth Century,vol.
1 The National Revolution.
Essays
on four significant Armenian authors of the twentieth century: Yeghishé Charents, Gurgen
Mahari, Zabel Esayan, and Vahan Totovents. Features new translations of the work of these
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 Hilmar Kaiser, in collaboration with Luther and Nancy Eskijian,
At the Crossroads of Der Zor: Death, Survival and Humanitarian
Resistance in Aleppo, 1915–1917. A rare study of Armenian humanitarian
efforts during the Armenian Genocide.
 Joan George,
Merchants in
Exile: The Armenians of Manchester, England, 1835–1935. The history
of a prosperous community that influenced British policy toward Ottoman Turkey.
 Second Edition.
Rita Soulahian
Kuyumjian,
Archeology of Madness: Komitas,
Portrait of an Armenian Icon. A psychiatrist looks into the psyche of the
great compiler and arranger of Armenian folk music.
"A very moving manuscript." --Vartan Gregorian
 Alice Shepard Riggs,
Shepard of Aintab,
with a new foreword by Constance Shepard Jolly. The life of a popular American medical
missionary who spent most of his adult life working in Aintab, in central Turkey.
 Raffi,
The Fool, translated by Donald Abcarian.
First published in 1881, this historical novel has served as an "I have a dream"
speech for generations of Armenians.
For
new edition see Taderon Press
Stina
Katchadourian (ed. and intro),
Great Need
over the Water: The Letters of Theresa Huntington Ziegler, Missionary to Turkey,
1898–1905, A fascinating account
of life in Harpoot (Kharpert) from the
perspective of a young American missionary one hundred years ago.
A Los Angeles Times bestseller!
 Arpena S. Mesrobian,
"Like
One Family": The Armenians of Syracuse. A microcosm of the history
of Armenians in America over the past one hundred years.
 Hilmar Kaiser,
Imperialism, Racism, and Development Theories: The Construction of a
Dominant Paradigm on Ottoman Armenians. An inquiry into the origins of
stereotypes about Ottoman Armenians in current history-writing.
 Sarkis Narzakian,
Memoirs of
Sarkis Narzakian. The story of an Armenian revolutionary and American
labor activist from Chemishgazag in Ottoman Turkey.
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A VALUABLE NEW SERIES
STERNDALE CLASSICS
Harry Sturmer,
Two War Years in Constantinople: Sketches of German and Young Turkish
Ethnics and Politics (originally translated
and printed in 1917) revised and complete edition with annotations and
an introduction by Hilmar Kaiser.
Clarence Ussher,
An American Physician in Turkey (first
published 1917). This memoir includes a detailed account of the siege of Van in 1915. It
is the book featured in Atom Egoyan's motion picture,
Ararat.
Grace Knapp,
The Tragedy of Bitlis (first published 1919). A
rare account of the Armenian Genocide in Bitlis.
George Horton,
The
Blight of Asia (originally
printed in 1926). An account of the burning of Smyrna and the
forced exodus of its Greek and Armenian inhabitants. The author was the U.S. consul
general there.
Rafael de Nogales,
Four Years Beneath the Crescent
(originally printed in 1926). The memoir of a
Venezuelan mercenary who, in May 1915, commanded Ottoman artillery
batteries bombarding Armenians in the besieged city of Van.
Duke of Argyll,
Our Responsibilities for Turkey: Facts and Memories of Forty Years
(originally printed in 1896)
An authoritative account examining British Policy and the Armenian
Question.
Henry Morgenthau,
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
(originally printed in 1918). The United States envoy to the
Ottoman Empire in 1915–17 reports key conversations with Young Turk officials and
fellow diplomats.
Robert Curzon,
Armenia: A Year in Erzeroom (originally printed in 1856)
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 British
Parliamentary Debates on the Armenian Genocide 1915–1918,
ed. Ara Sarafian, with a foreword by Eric Avebury
Reproduces British Parliamentary discussions of
the persecution of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during WWI.
Identifies intellectual trajectory of the official British position,
leading to the 1916 Parliamentary Blue Book on the treatment of
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Henry H. Riggs,
Days of Tragedy
in Armenia:Personal Experiences in Harpoot, 1915–1917. The story of
Harpoot (Kharpert) during the First World War as told by an American missionary.
 James L. Barton, compiler,
"Turkish
Atrocities": Statements of American Missionaries on the Destruction of Christian
Communities in Ottoman Turkey, 1915–1917. Twenty-one sworn statements
from various parts of the empire.
 Bertha B. Morley,
Marsovan 1915: The
Diaries of Bertha Morley. A music teacher from Ohio witnesses the
destruction of Armenians in Marsovan.
 Tacy Atkinson,
"The
German, the Turk and the Devil Made a Triple Alliance": Harpoot Diaires,
1908–1917. A missionary from Salem, Nebraska, witnesses the destruction
of Armenians in Harpoot (Kharpert).
 Maria Jacobsen,
Diaries
of a Danish Missionary: Harpoot, 1907–1919. Unlike American
witnesses, who had to leave the Ottoman Empire when the United States entered World War I,
Maria Jacobsen carries on her narrative until the end of the war.
 Eberhard Count Wolffskeel Von Reichenberg,
Zeitoun, Mousa Dagh, Ourfa: Letters on the Armenian
Genocide, ed. and intro. Hilmar Kaiser
 Ruth Parmelee,
Pioneer
in the Euphrates Valley
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