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Portraits of Hope

By Voss, Huberta V

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Portraits of Hope

By Voss, Huberta V

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Elie Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War 'the Holocaust before the Holocaust'. Around one and a half million Armenians - men, women and children - were slaughtered at the time of the First World War. This book outlines some of the historical facts and consequences of the massacres but sees it as its main objective to present the Armenians to the foreign reader, their history but also their lives and achievements in the present that finds most Armenians dispersed throughout the world. 3000 years after their appearance in history, 1700 years after adopting Christianity and almost 90 years after the greatest catastrophe in their history, these 50 'biographical sketches of intellectuals, artists, journalists, and others...produce a complicated kaleidoscope of a divided but lively people that is trying once again, to rediscover its ethnic coherence. Armenian civilization does not consist solely of stories about a far-off past, but also of traditions and a national conscience suggestive of a future that will transcend the present.' [from the Preface]
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2007-08-30
Publication Date:
2007-06-01
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1845452577
ISBN13:
9781845452575
Weight:
658 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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