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An American Physician in Turkey: A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and in War

by Clarence D. Ussher
Astoria, NY:
J.C. & A.L. Fawcett, Inc., Pub.,
1990, 339p. Hard cover.


$67.50	$45.00

Originally published in 1917, this is the memoir of Dr. Clarence D. Ussher, who served as a doctor and missionary in Marsovan, Harput and Van from 1898 to 1915.

Ararat: The Shooting Script

by Atom Egoyan
New York:
Newmarket Press, 2002, 143p. Softcover.


$29.95	$18.95

Egoyan’s Ararat is a contemporary story of two estranged families and their search for reconciliation and truth. A film-within-a-film, it is also a historical re-enactment being made by a famous Armenian director whose production is based on Clarence D. Ussher’s book which depicts the siege of Van and the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

The Armenian Genocide in Perspective

by Richard G. Hovannisian
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Pub, 1986, 215p


$32.50	$24.95

This volume is a pioneering collective attempt to assess and analyze the Armenian Genocide from differing perspectives, including history, political science, ethics, religion, literature, and psychiatry. The papers focus on the historical dimensions of the Armenian Question, the determinants of genocide, collective responsibility and rationalization, and the implications of denial.

The Armenian Genocide Within a Framework of Compelling Evidence

by Vahakn Dadrian
Toronto: Zoryan Institute, 2002, 35p.
Softcover + VHS videotape.


$30.00	$20.00

A videotape of the lecture by noted genocide specialist Prof. Vahakn Dadrian delivered before a packed audience of some 500 people at a commemoration of the 86th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at Harvard University. Accompanying the videotape is a booklet containing the printed text of the lecture, an introduction by Prof. James Russell of Harvard University, a brief biography of Prof. Dadrian, and an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of the noted scholar’s writings.

The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide

by Yair Auron
Transaction Pub., 2000. 332p. Softcover


$47.95	$29.95

Yair Auron explores the parallels between the Jewish and Armenian situations and the reactions of the Jewish community in Palestine (the Yishuv) to the Armenian Genocide.

The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide

by Yair Auron
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Pub., 2003, 338p.


$69.50	$44.95

This book examines the current attitudes of the State of Israel and its leading institutions toward the Armenian Genocide. While numerous Jewish scholars in and outside Israel affirm the Armenian Genocide without reservation, the book explores both passive, indifferent attitudes of Israeli institutions and government, as well as active measures to undermine attempts at safeguarding the memory of the Armenian Genocide.

British Reports on Ethnic Cleansing in Anatolia, 1919-1922

by Author: Vartkes Yeghiayan
Los Angeles: Center for Armenian Remembrance, 2007


$24.00	$20.00

This important book, compiled by Attorney Vartkes Yeghiayan, chronicles how the Turkish forces, after invoking a “War of Independence,” massacred innocent civilians and looted and appropriated Armenian and Greek cathedrals, monasteries, churches, institutions, fields, orchards, stores and factories, while the victorious Allies looked away.

The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geopolitics of Nagorno-Karabagh

by Levon Chorbajian, Patrick Donabedian and Claude Mutafian
London: Zed Books, 1994, 198p.

Hardcover and paperback available.


$82.50hc $33.75pb	$55.00hc $22.50pb

This path breaking and now classic volume covers the history of Nagarno-Karabagh from the earliest pre-Christian records down through the early 1990s, and makes an irrefutable case for Nagarno-Karabagh as an Armenian land throughout recorded history. This is a detailed, thorough, and meticulously documented study.

Der Völkermord an den Armeniern 1915/16: Dokumente aus dem Politishcen Archiv des deutschen Auswärtigen Amts [The Armenian Genocide, 1915/16: Documents from the Diplomatic Archives of the German Foreign Office]

by Wolfgang Gust (ed.)
Publisher: Zu Klampen, 2005
674 p., Hardcover


$65.00	$52.00

This 675-page volume is the product of over seven years of labor by Wolfgang Gust, the editor, and his international team of researchers and translators. It is an extensive selection of some 218 telegrams, letters and reports from German consular officials in the Ottoman Empire to the Foreign Office in Berlin describing the unfolding genocide of the Armenians.

Dialogue Across an International Divide: Essays Towards a Turkish-Armenian Dialogue

by Taner Akçam.
Toronto and Cambridge, MA: Zoryan Institute, 2001
Softcover book of xii+101 pages.


$21.95	$14.95

In this book noted Turkish historian, Dr. Taner Akçam, further develops his ideas presented at a lecture in Toronto on May 25, 2001, co-sponsored with the AGBU.

From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide

by Taner Akçam.
London: Zed Books 2004
Softcover and Hardcover available.


$32.50	$25.00	Softcover
$97.50	$75.00	Hardcover

The Zoryan Institute and Zed books of London, England are pleased to announce the publication of a groundbreaking new book by Turkish scholar Taner Akçam, entitled From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide. This extraordinary book examines the relationship between Turkey's transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic, the Armenian Genocide, and the process of democratization in Turkey today.

Genocide as a Problem of National and International Law: The World War I Armenian Case and Its Contemporary Legal Ramifications

by Vahakn N. Dadrian. 1989. 133p.
Reprinted from The Yale Journal of International Law 14, No. 2 (Summer 1989): 221-334 + Appendix and bibliography.


$23.00	$15.00

This publication is the first in-depth study of the legal implications of the Armenian Genocide and remains the standard reference work on the subject.

"The Historical and Legal Interconnections between the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust: From Impunity to Retributive Justice"

by Vahakn N. Dadrian
1998. 55p.


$10.00	$7.00

Reprinted from The Yale Journal of International Law 23, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 504-559.

The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies

by Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn
New Haven & London:
Yale University Press, 1990, 461p.
Softcover.


$47.95	$30.00

This comprehensive survey of the history and sociology of genocide presents over two dozen examples, from antiquity to the present. By including political and social groups as potential victims, Chalk and Jonassohn provide a definition of genocide that is considerably broader than that contained in the United Nations Convention on Genocide.

Hitler and the Armenian Genocide

by Kevork Bardakjian
1985. 81p.
(Out of print --
bound photocopy available)


$17.95	$13.50

Insan Haklari ve Ermeni Sorunu: Ittihat ve Terakki'den Kurtulus Savasina

by Taner Akçam.
Ankara: IMGE, 1999, 633p.


$75.00	$50.00

This book, titled in English Human Rights and the Armenian Question, is written by a Turkish historian, who courageously accepts the historicity of the Armenian Genocide.

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Feb. 2002
"The Armenian Question and the Wartime Fate of the Armenians as Documented by the Officials of the Ottoman Empire's World War I Allies: Germany and Austro-Hungary"

by Vahakn N. Dadrian
34, no.1 (February 2002)
Cambridge University Press
Official reprint, 27p.


$9.00	$6.00

This latest study by Dadrian will reach numerous Turkish historians who are members of that association, and currently are teaching in universities throughout North America, Europe, and especially in Turkey. Following an elaborate and methodical presentation of a large body of official German and Austrian documents, Prof. Dadrian concludes, “By any standard of definition, [the wartime fate of the Armenians involved] an act of genocide.”

In the Shadow of the Fortress: The Genocide Remembered

by Bertha Nakshian Ketchian
Edited by Sonia I. Ketchian
1988. 167p.


$18.00	$12.00

(Survivors' Memoirs No. 1)

The Journal of Political and Military Sociology

Foreword by Richard Falk
Introduction by Roger Smith
Articles by Vahakn Dadrian
Vol. 22, no. 1 (Summer 1994). ix + 208p


$18.00	$12.00

Judgement Unto Truth: Witnessing the Armenian Genocide

by Ephraim K. Jernazian
Translated by Alice Haig.
1990. 163p.


$39.95hc $21.95pb	$26.50hc $14.50pb

This dramatic personal narrative is a unique contribution to understanding past events in the Near East at a time of major upheaval. Available in English and Armenian. Introduction by Vahakn Dadrian. Co-published with Transaction Publishers. (Survivors' Memoirs No. 4/5).

Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide: A Case Study of Distortion and Falsification

by Vahakn N. Dadrian
1999. vi+84p.


$18.00	$12.00

This book is an exposé of the methods and a rebuttal to the arguments used by Turks and their apologists to deny the Armenian Genocide.

Letters from Armenia to Israel Safarian

Translated by Eugenie Shehirian
Foreword by Edward Safarian
Toronto: 632083 Ontario Ltd
2001 88p.


$16.00	$16.00

These letters, translated from a now little-known Armenian dialect, are concrete expressions of the misery suffered by Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Alarmed by the increasing raids by Kurds on Armenian villages, Israel Safarian left his native village in Turkey for Canada in 1907, with the hope of making a better life there with his family. Due to his financial difficulties and failing health, he was unable to save his parents, brother, wife and children from perishing in the genocidal deportations of 1915. The letters set forth in this book are from Israel's remaining family members, who express sadness at Israel's absence and desperation in the face of oppression.

Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Confronting the Armenian Genocide

by Richard G. Hovannisian
2003 301p. Softcover


$35.00	$24.95

This volume argues that the time has come for Turkey to reassess the propriety of its approach, and to begin the process that will allow it to move into a post-genocide era.

Needle, Thread and Button

by John Yervant.
1988. 101p.


$15.00	$9.95

(Survivors' Memoirs No. 2)

Out of Darkness

by Ramela Martin
1989. 220p.


$18.00	$12.00

(Survivors' Memoirs No. 3)

Resistance and Revenge

by Jacques Derogy
Foreward by Gerard Chaliand
A.M. Berrett, Translator
1990. 206p.


$53.00	$34.95

Originally published in French under the code name Operation Nemesis, this book is a study of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (the Tashnak party) and the individuals responsible for the execution of Turkish leaders responsible for the Armenian Genocide.

Studies in Comparative Genocide

by Taner Akçam,
New York: Metropolitan Books
2006. 483p.


$40.00	$30.00

“A Shameful Act is dedicated to the memory of a Muslim Turk, Haji Khalil, who saved the family of my good friend, Greg Sarkissian, during the Genocide. Haji Khalil and Greg’s grandfathers were business partners in the city of Urfa when the government orders came. Whoever hides an Armenian is to be hanged in front of his own house, and then the house will be burned. In spite of this order, Haji Khalil hid the Sarkissian family in his attic, eight people in all, taking care of them, feeding them and burying one of them when she passed away."

Studies in Comparative Genocide

by Levon Chorbajian,
George Shirinian, eds.
1999. 270p.


$108.00	$72.00

Many of the world's leading authorities in history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major genocides of the 20th century in this book from Macmillan Press of London. The volume covers the genocides of the Armenians, Bosnians, Gypsies, Jews, Rwandans, and Ukrainians, and also topics of genocide denial and prevention.

Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power. 5th edition revised.

by Irving Louis Horowitz.
New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Pub., 2002, 447p.
Softcover.


$47.95	$30.00

Taking Lives is a pivotal effort to reconstruct the social and political contexts of twentieth century, state-inspired mass murder. Horowitz reexamines genocide from a new perspective, viewing this issue as the defining element in the political sociology of our time. This new fifth edition includes approximately 30% new materials and five new chapters.

Toynbee, Turks, and Armenians

by Lillian Etmekjian
1985. 9p.


$2.50	$1.75

Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-Armenian Conflict

by Vahakn Dadrian Transaction Pub., 1999. 214p.
Hardcover


$52.95	$34.95

This book provides a unique, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the underlying causes of the World War I Armenian Genocide. It traces the Genocide to the origin and history of the long-standing Turko-Armenian discord, with massacre treated as the means to resolve the conflict between a powerful, dominant group and a weak, vulnerable minority.

Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies

Khachig Tölölyan, Editor.
3 issues per year.

A joint publication of the University of Toronto Press and the Zoryan Institute.
www.utpjournals.com/diaspora
(Orders outside of Canada must pay in US dollars. Canadian orders must add 7% GST.)
Annual subscription for individuals -$31.00
Annual subscription for institutions - $60.00

Quest for Closure: The Armenian Genocide and the Search for Justice in Canada

by Lorne Shirinian
2000. 267p.


$34.95	$23.50

Survivor Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide

by Lorne Shirinian
Reading, England
Taderon Press
1999. 81p.


$15.50	$10.00

Lorne Shirinian's book is an excellent introduction to survivor memoirs of the Armenian Genocide in Armenian diaspora literature. He also discusses the impact of official Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide.

The Karabagh File

Jiraryr Libaridian, ed.
1988. 171p.


$37.50	$25.00

(Out of print - bound photocopy available)

The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: From Secession to Republic

Levon Chorbajian, Editor
Palgrave. 2001.
Hardback. 267p.


$105.50hc	$68.00hc

The papers in this collection were delivered at a conference, “The Karabagh Movement: Ten Years After,” held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May 1998. This conference, sponsored by the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation and the Zoryan Institute of Canada, assembled some of the leading analysts of the region to assess the Karabagh Question in the decade since the eruption of the historic protests that saw hundreds of thousands of Armenians march in support of Karabagh.

The Sumgait Tragedy: Pogroms Against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijan.
Volume I: Eyewitness Accounts

Samvel Shahmuratian, Editor
Forward by Yelena Bonner
Steven Jones Translator
1990. 343p.


$61.50hc $45.00pb	$41.00hc $29.75pb

The Sumgait Tragedy is a compilation of 36 interviews conducted by Armenian journalist Samvel Shahmuratian with 45 of the Sumgait survivors. These testimonies give painful answers to critical questions. Maps included. Co-published with Aristide D. Caratzas, publisher.

A Concise History of the Armenian People

by George A. Bournoutian
Second Edition
Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers
2003. 499p.


$39.00	$30.00

This up-to-date volume examines the history of the Armenian people in relation to world history. The second edition adds much new data on the Armenian Diaspora and covers events in Armenia up to 2003. This well illustrated book, with ample maps, focuses on political and socio-economic history, while glossing over the arts and literature. Its main purpose is to familiarize Armenians and non-Armenians with a people and culture that is absent from most history courses and texts. This book is highly recommended for teachers of global civilizations, as well as those specializing in the history of Russia, Ottoman Empire, Iran and the Caucasus.

Armenians and Russia (1626-1796) A Documentary Record

by George A. Bournoutian
Mazda Publishers Inc., 2001. 511p.
Hardcover


$68.00	$45.00

This study includes some 400 documents from the archives of Russia, Georgia, and Armenia focusing on Russian political and economic interest in Transcaucasia and northern Iran.

Beginnings and Ends

Fiction by Lorne Shirinian
1991. 171p.


$15.00	$9.95

Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887-1912)

by Anaide Ter Minassian
Translated by A.M. Berrett
1984. 69p.


$10.00	$6.75

This study traces the interactions between political developments and intellectual currents, which determined crucial phases in the history of the Armenian people during a period of revolutionary upheaval.

Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, 1797-1889 A Documentary Record

by George A. Bournoutian
Mazda Publishers Inc., 1998. 578p.
Hardcover


$75.00	$49.95

This study covers the period from the end of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century—that is, from the removal of the Russian forces from Transcaucasia by Emperor Paul to the formation of the first Armenian political party in the region.

The Lord Mayor Appeals For Help

19.5"x13.5"
Louis Raemaekers, artist
Original size 35"x23"


$20.00	$13.00

Poster released in 1918 in Great Britain to raise funds for surviving victims of genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Reissued in 1985 by the Zoryan Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Against the Armenian People. Courtesy of Liberty Memorial Museum, Kansas City, Missouri.

Give Or We Perish

19.5"x13.5"
W.T. Benda, artist
Original size 33"x22"


$20.00	$13.00

Poster released in 1918 in the U.S. by the Near East Relief to raise funds for surviving victims of genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Reissued in 1985 by the Zoryan Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Against the Armenian People. Courtesy of Liberty Memorial Museum, Kansas City, Missouri.

Lest They Perish

19.5"x13.5"
W.B. King, artist
Original size 18"x12"


$20.00	$13.00

Lest We Perish

19.5"x13.5"
E.F. Betssbain, artist
Original size 18"x12"


$20.00	$13.00

The Child At Your Door

19.5"x13.5"
Artist unknown
Original size 20"x14"


$20.00	$13.00

Poster released in 1918 in the U.S. by the Near East Relief to raise funds for surviving victims of genocide in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Reissued in 1985 by the Zoryan Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Against the Armenian People. Courtesy of Liberty Memorial Museum, Kansas City, Missouri.

They Shall Not Perish

19.5"x13.5"
Douglas Volk, artist
Original size 40"x30"


$20.00	$13.00

Poster released in 1918 in the U.S. by the Near East Relief to raise funds for surviving victims of genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Reissued in 1985 by the Zoryan Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Against the Armenian People.
Courtesy of Liberty Memorial Museum, Kansas City, Missouri.

Where The Victims Are

13.5"x19.5"
Artist Unknown
Original size 21"x28"


$20.00	$13.00