Eliza: A Memoir of Love and Resistance By Eliza Aharon Sachaklian Gomidas Institute Books, 2021 210 pp. Paperback, $23.50 As the saying goes—they don’t make them like that any more. This memoir of Eliza Aharon […]
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 By Khatchig Mouradian Michigan State University Press, 2021 262 pp. Hardcover, $44.95 Resistance and humanitarianism are two words which conjure up certain expectations […]
La Fanfare du Négus By Boris Adjemian EHESS, 2013 350 pp. $28.17 paperback This book, in French, is an interesting analysis—in the field of diaspora studies—of the Armenian community of Ethiopia in the nineteenth and […]
I Want to Die with a Flag Ethiopia: My Delusions and Disillusionment By Vartkes Nalbandian Independently published, 2019 210 pp. $15.95 paperback This brave and outspoken account of life under different regimes in Ethiopia is […]
Feast of Ashes The Life and Art of David Ohannessian By Sato Moughalian 2019 440 pp., Redwood Press $21.88 hardcover Feast of Ashes is a historian’s book, packed with detail, new information and useful illustrations. […]
The Seamstress of Ourfa Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss Armida Publications, 2018 Here, at last, is a book about strong Armenian women. Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss has written the story of her maternal family’s origins in Ourfa, a […]
Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey Avedis Hadjian I.B. Tauris, 2018 592 pages Avedis Hadjian’s writing is so beautiful and touching that reading the introduction to his new book “Secret Nation” brought tears to […]
In “Jeweler to an Emperor: Bedros A. Sevadjian (1918-1977),” (Armenian Weekly, Aug. 15, 2016), I wrote about the gold tray that Emperor Haile Selassie commissioned from my father, Bedros Sevadjian, as a gift to Queen […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly The Museum Resource Center in Washington D.C. hosted a reception on June 15 in honor of my father, Bedros Sevadjian, jeweler and silversmith “By Appointment to His Imperial Majesty Haile […]
Bedros Sevadjian was an Armenian who was born in Aintab, Ottoman Empire, on 21st May 1918. His father, Avedis Sevadjian, had been a successfully established merchant and industrialist in Ethiopia from 1900 having settled […]
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