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Book Review: Ararat in America
Ararat in America: Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
By Ben Alexander
Published by I. B.Tauris in 2023
264 pages
It’s surprising how little most Armenian Americans know about their recent past. I realized this shortfall when conducting research for my book nearly 20 years ago. The same unanswered questions popped up time and again. Why are there two Apostolic Armenian churches (plus two more when counting Armenian Protestants and Catholics)? Why did the comm
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There is a problem with this statement:“But few spewed so much venom and vitriol, especially after suffering mass murder on a scale that should have brought Armenians together rather than turn them against one another so virulently.” Long before WWI, splinter Armenian militant groups were rather busy decimating each other. My grandpa was stationed in the area and he witnessed the brutal way they dealt with political opposition. Especially those Ottoman Armenian governors and officials who were reluctant to join an armed rebellion were assassinated quickly. Let us not pretend this legacy of assassinations and murder did not exist prior to the tragic events of WWI.