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Let Them Not Return: Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire: 26 (War and Genocide, 26)

Let Them Not Return: Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire: 26 (War and Genocide, 26)

by David Gaunt (Editor), NauresAtto (Editor), SonerOnderBarthoma (Editor)

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Synopsis

The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous, largely Christian Assyrians who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or sayfo (literally, sword in Assyrian), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 276
 Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 01 Apr 2017
ISBN 10: 1785334980
ISBN 13: 9781785334986

Media Reviews
With a list of top-notch contributors, this is an excellent addition to what little is currently available on this under-researched genocide. The organization of the contributions and the volume's breadth of scope are particularly impressive. * Marc Levene, University of Southampton
Author Bio
David Gaunt is Professor of History at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Sodertorn University, and a member of the European Academy. He has written extensively on mass violence and genocide in Eastern Europe and in the Ottoman Empire. His Massacres, Resistors, Protectors (2006) is considered the seminal work on the Assyrian and Syriac genocide. Naures Atto is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in World Christianities and their Diaspora in the European Context and Primary Investigator in the Aramaic Online Project at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Hostages in the Homeland, Orphans in the Diaspora: Identity Discourses among the Assyrian/Syriac elites in the European Diaspora (2011). Soner Onder Barthoma is an independent researcher in the field of Political Science and co-coordinator of the Erasmus+ Aramaic Online Project at Freie Universitat Berlin. His recent publications include the articles 'Minority Rights in Turkey: Quo Vadis, Assyrians?' and 'The Transformation of Social Capital among Assyrians in the Migration Context'.