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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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Religion and Spirituality in the Memoirs of Child Survivors of the Armenian Genocide

Seppälä, Serafim, 2025

International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 81–101 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0064

Argues that Armenian Genocide survivor memoirs remain an understudied genre despite their value as a grassroots record of the events and of how trauma is remembered. Seppälä brings together two neglected facts: that many memoirs were written by child survivors and dwell on childhood experience, and that religious material (God, faith, prayer, providence) runs all through them. Because most texts were composed decades after the events, the analysis rests on a theory of narrative subjectivity and retrospective narration. The findings emphasize the paradoxical character of survivors' spirituality: after the genocide religious conviction does not cohere into a system but survives as detached fragments, ranging from astonishing faith to deep bitterness.

survivor testimony child survivors memoir studies religion and trauma memory

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Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation

Parla, Ayşe, 2023

Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 446–470 (Cambridge University Press)

Revisits Tehlirian's 1921 Berlin acquittal in light of Tehlirian's own 1953 memoir, in which he acknowledged that elements of his courtroom account departed from fact. Parla focuses on the legal, moral and epistemological work performed by the ghost of Tehlirian's mother, who appeared in his testimony, and on the trial's place in the origins of genocide as a legal category. Building on Saidiya Hartman's 'critical fabulation,' she develops the concept of 'empirical fabulation' to think about the ethical potential of fabulation in recounting genocidal violence that resists straightforward representation, particularly where existing law fails to meet demands for justice.

Tehlirian trial Operation Nemesis testimony and truth genocide and law memory

English

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Making Space and Community Through Memory: Orphans and Armenian Jerusalem in the Nubar Library's Photographic Archive

Adjemian, Boris · Suciyan, Talin, 2017

Études arméniennes contemporaines, No. 9 (2017), 'Jerusalem in the Making: Spaces and Communities', pp. 75–113 (Bibliothèque Nubar / AGBU); DOI 10.4000/eac.1129

Adjemian (director of the AGBU Nubar Library) and Suciyan analyze a body of 1920s–1930s photographs held in Paris to reconstruct how communal space was made in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem. Reading the layered history of post-WWI refugees and orphans alongside older Armenian religious institutions in Palestine, they examine how memory shaped Armenian communal life. The essay is also methodological, reflecting on how historians can build a social history from a visual archive that recovers lives the post-genocide record otherwise forgot or ignored.

Armenian Jerusalem photographic archives genocide orphans post-genocide diaspora social history

English

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