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.
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.
Sukiasyan reconstructs Hasanchelebi as a principal killing station on the Sebastia (Sivas) deportation routes, where deported Armenian men from Sebastia and surrounding regions were systematically exterminated. Drawing on Armenian survivor testimonies corroborated by Ottoman documents, he traces the phases of atrocity — from the plunder and abuse of women to the mass arrest and execution of men — and argues for the distinctive evidentiary value of Armenian-language sources in documenting the machinery of the genocide.
Studies a rare, unpublished destan (lamentation poem) on the 1909 Adana Massacres written in Armeno-Turkish by survivor Garabed Artinian, who lost his wife and child. The 57-stanza poem is read as simultaneously a work of art, a testimony, and a near-real-time historical record. Engaging trauma studies and theories of representing catastrophe, the author argues the destan holds both literary and historical value as a uniquely informative source. The author is Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and President of the Society for Armenian Studies.
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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