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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043
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Topic:diaspora press
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The Importance of Paris-based Zhoghovurd (People) Daily Newspaper in Researching the Armenian Diaspora's Involvement in the French Resistance (1941–1945)

Teteyan, Arshaluys, 2025
Հայագիտության հարցեր / Armenological Issues, Vol. 2, No. 1(29), pp. 47–56 (YSU Institute for Armenian Studies); DOI 10.46991/ai.2025.1.29.003

Armenian participation in the French Resistance is usually reduced to Missak Manouchian and his group, but the wider Armenian diaspora in France, largely composed of survivors of 1915, wrote many chapters of Resistance history that remain unknown. The article argues that Armenian-language newspapers published in France during and after the war are a major untapped source, focusing on Zhoghovurd, issued in Paris under editor Shahe Tatourian from 1943 to 1948. Its pages carry eyewitness and participant testimony in three groups: memoirs of Armenian Resistance fighters and their fallen comrades; data on the numbers, biographies, and commemorations of Armenian combatants; and reports on Armenians returning from Nazi death camps and the community's efforts to rehabilitate former prisoners.

Armenian-French communitydiaspora pressFrench ResistanceMissak Manouchiangenocide survivors
English
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Pages from Armenian-Canadian History: The Ararat Monthlies, 1926–1929 / Էջեր գանատահայ պատմութենէն. Արարատ ամսաթերթերը (1926–1929)

Ohanian, Daniel · Batikian, Gabriella · Garabedian, Salpi, 2023
Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education, Toronto; 828 pp.; ISBN 978-1738967209 (Ohanian, Batikian and Garabedian are compilers; with contributions by Jack Apramian, Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, John Farr and Lorne Shirinian)

Ararat Monthly and Արարատ ամսաթերթ were newsletters published by the Georgetown Boys, Armenian Genocide orphans brought to Canada from 1923, and their teacher Aris Alexanian, who used them to practise English and Armenian, share artwork and stories, report on life at their orphanage-farm, and stay connected with Armenians worldwide. At their peak they had 2,000 subscribers in more than thirty countries, releasing 15 English and at least 30 Armenian issues between 1926 and 1929. The volume marks the centennial of the initiative and gathers the dispersed remnants of the newsletters, assembled over a decade from families, libraries and archives in Canada, Armenia, Austria, France and the United States. Recovering 45 issues where only about 30 had been known.

Georgetown BoysArmenian-Canadian historygenocide orphansdiaspora pressdocumentary edition
English and Armenian

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