A digital library of verified, open scholarship on all things Armenian, including Armenian history, the Genocide, Artsakh, language, and the diaspora.
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.
Treats Armenian Genocide survivor oral histories as archival resources in their own right: how testimony collections were created, preserved, and institutionalized, and what archival value they carry now that the survivor generation has passed. Bridges genocide studies and archival science in the field's flagship journal.
Examines the Ottoman state's treatment of Armenian orphans (Turkish orphanages, mektebs, and forced placement in Muslim households) as institutions of Turkification meeting the Genocide Convention's definition of intent to destroy a group. Uses survivor interviews, memoirs, and first-person accounts, and traces the transgenerational psychological burden the genocide left on the Armenian nation.
Grigoryan asks whether the ways Armenians obtained food during the Genocide can be classified as unarmed resistance, tracing how that concept was formed in Holocaust scholarship. She frames the question against the persistent charge that Armenians were 'slaughtered like sheep,' arguing instead for a scholarly taxonomy of resistance. She then groups the food-procurement practices attested in survivor memoirs and oral histories: feeding on wild grasses, gathering fruits and nuts, and begging. She pays particular attention to children's experiences, reading these daily acts as conscious struggle against a genocidal policy of death by starvation.
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Suggest a publication →Peer-reviewed and institutional scholarship on Armenian subjects — history, the Armenian Genocide, Artsakh, language and literature, the church, and the diaspora — in any language and from any country. Journal articles, books, book chapters, theses and institute publications are all in scope. Entries are chosen for what they contribute to an Armenian student's understanding, not for how recent or how famous they are.
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