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Book Review: ‘The Sins of the Fathers’—The Cardinal Sin of Denial

March 30, 2018 Vartan Matiossian 6

The Sins of the Fathers: Turkish Denialism and the Armenian Genocide By Siobhan Nash-Marshall The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York (Jan. 1, 2018), 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0824599164; Paperback, $24.95 Special to the Armenian Weekly Denial is […]

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SAS Holds 40th Anniversary Workshop in Yerevan

November 13, 2014 Vartan Matiossian 0

A Pioneering Effort with a Promising Future On its 40th anniversary, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) organized an unprecedented workshop from Oct. 3-5 at the presidential hall of sessions of the National Academy of […]

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The Quest for Aurora: On ‘Ravished Armenia’ and its Surviving Fragment

April 15, 2014 Vartan Matiossian 6

Special for The Armenian Weekly April Magazine A personal memoir Four score and 15 years ago, “Ravished Armenia” (or “Auction of Souls”), the silent movie where Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94) played her own story of survival […]

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What I Choose It to Mean: On ‘Yeghern’ as the Armenian Translation of ‘Genocide’

December 16, 2013 Vartan Matiossian 4

“The term Yeghern, or Medz Yeghern, is the only word that really captures the essence of what happened in 1915. The survivors used that word. It is the only word that could really explain what […]

Opinion

Word Atrocities: Of Little Phrases and Great Crimes

September 27, 2013 Vartan Matiossian 2

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it—and like too many other such persecutions of too many other peoples—the lessons of the Holocaust must never be […]

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What Our Words Mean: Towards the Vindication of ‘Medz Yeghern’

August 2, 2013 Vartan Matiossian 13

People do not bother to look for attitudes and terminology which will assert their unique identities, but rather opt for popular and widely current formulas. –The Armenian Weekly, editorial (1981)1   ‘Shoah’ or ‘Holocaust’? A […]

Opinion

The ‘Exact Translation’: How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Means Genocide

May 15, 2013 Vartan Matiossian 60

Yes, until World War II, the Medz Yeghern of 1915 was unprecedented not only in the history of our people, but in the entirety of humankind. An entire people, an entire nation coming from the […]

Opinion

The Self-Delusion of ‘Great Calamity’: What ‘Medz Yeghern’ Actually Means Today

January 12, 2013 Vartan Matiossian 9

Towards the metropolis of the Medz Yeghern (Avetis Aharonian, 1918)1 In our previous article, we established that “Medz Yeghern” literally meant “Great Crime” for the survivors of the genocide. It becomes clear that the phrase […]

Opinion

The ‘Great Calamity’ Hoax: What ‘Medz Yeghern’ Actually Meant for the Survivors

January 4, 2013 Vartan Matiossian 15

“…All those human-like monsters who executed the Medz Yeghern and tainted their hands with the innocent blood of the Armenians.” Yervant Odian (1920) During the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the word […]

Opinion

The Great Crime that Was Brewing: The Meaning of ‘Medz Yeghern’ before 1915

December 20, 2012 Vartan Matiossian 15

‘We want to believe in the victory of Freedom and of tomorrow’s brotherhood, we want to enjoy smiles, we want to strengthen our faith that famine is not eternal, blood is not eternal, yeghern is not […]

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