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The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized,
both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide.
What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a
broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during
and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated
were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or
Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey,
Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited
collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or "Sayfo" (literally,
"sword" in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological,
anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed
light on a neglected historical atrocity.
The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized,
both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide.
What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a
broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during
and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated
were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or
Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey,
Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited
collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or "Sayfo" (literally,
"sword" in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological,
anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed
light on a neglected historical atrocity.
Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the
anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were
at the time unrivaled episodes of ethnic violence. Incorporating
newly available primary sources, this collection of groundbreaking
essays by researchers from Europe, the United States, and Israel
investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local and
transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence
was averted. Focusing on the period from World War I through Russia
s early revolutionary years, the studies include Poland, Ukraine,
Belorussia, Lithuania, Crimea, and Siberia."
This is a pioneering historical investigation of the Assyrian,
Chaldean, and Syrian Christian minorities during World War I, who
suffered the same fate as the Armenians. Ethnic cleansing and
large-scale massacres occurred throughout northern Mesopotamia and
parts of Ottoman-occupied Iran. Based on primary sources from
official archives, as well as hitherto unused manuscript sources
and oral histories published here for the first time, this book
attempts to give a full picture of the events of 1915. The book
concentrates on the Assyrians of Urmia and Hakkari and on the
Syrians of Diyarbekir province, particularly in Tur Abdin.
This book assembles contributions from the conference « Focus
Reichskommissariat Ostland - Collaboration and Resistance during
the Holocaust which took place in Stockholm and Uppsala in April
2002. It presents new perspectives based on new archival sources
and oral historiography of the Holocaust during the German
occupation of the Baltic countries and part of Belarus: the
Reichskommissariat Ostland. Acclaimed historians and new
researchers from Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Latvia,
Lithuania, Sweden and the USA focus on the issues of collaboration
with or resistance to the Nazis and their extermination policy. The
studies of collaboration concern that of the German civilian
administration as well as the native local « self-defence
administration in the occupied countries, particularly in Lativa
and Lithuania. Several studies deal with resistance in the ghettos,
especially Minsk ghetto, and among the partisans in the forests of
Belarus and Lithuania. This book has distinctive relevance in
bringing together a large amount of archival research done during
the period since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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