Zoryan Institute

Publications

The Armenian Genocide Within a Framework of Compelling Evidence

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

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

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.

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.

A Crime of Silence: The Armenian Genocide

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal
(Temporarily out of print)
1985. 249p

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

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.
Softcover book of xii+101 pages.

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.
Softcover and Hardcover available

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.

Hitler and the Armenian Genocide

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

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.

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.

(Survivors' Memoirs No. 1)

Judgement Unto Truth: Witnessing the Armenian Genocide

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

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.

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.

Needle, Thread and Button

by John Yervant.
1988. 101p.

(Survivors' Memoirs No. 2)

Out of Darkness

by Ramela Martin
1989. 220p.

(Survivors' Memoirs No. 3)

Politics and Demography: Armenians, Turks and Kurds in the Ottoman Empire

by Levon Marashlian
Foreward by Richard H. Dekmejian. 1991. 153p.

Officials, propagandists and historians have tried to minimize the numbers of Armenians killed in the Genocide by minimizing the total number of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Marashlian critically examines the arguments and numbers offered by such protagonists and views the issue in the context of current political considerations and general Turkish historiography. Maps and tables included. (Out of print - no longer available).

Problems of Genocide: Proceedings of the International Conference on "Problems of Genocide"

April 21-23, 1995,
National Academy of Sciences
Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
1997. 440p.

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

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

“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.

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.

Toynbee, Turks, and Armenians

by Lillian Etmekjian
1985. 9p.

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

The Karabagh File

Jiraryr Libaridian, ed.
1988. 171p.

(Out of print - bound photocopy available)

The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: From Secession to Republic

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

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.

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.

Beginnings and Ends

Fiction by Lorne Shirinian
1991. 171p.

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

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

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.

The Lord Mayor Appeals For Help

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

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"

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"

Lest We Perish

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

The Child At Your Door

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

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"

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"