Portraits of Hope

Zusatztext "?certainly a well-put together and edited compendium of Armenian socio-political and cultural essays ...And it has a great deal to offer both the educated and altruistic reader alike about the passionate and fatalistic woven threads that compose Armenian life and identity today." · Armenian Weekly "?highly informative and important for the understanding not only of an ignored past?One reads with astonishment how much creative potential the oldest Christian people still has." · Die Welt "In this book Armenia?is not so much a nation rather than a landscape of remembrance! broken up and held together by violence and expulsion and through an eternal 'traveling' culture. Huberta von Voss allows us to experience this culture through the portraits of members of this culture who are dispersed throughout the world." · :die tageszeitung Informationen zum Autor Huberta v. Voss worked for many years as a political correspondent for various German dailies, before becoming spokesperson of the Speaker of the Bundestag. During the diplomatic assignment of her husband to Beirut and Nicosia, she edited and translated amongst others the Lebanese poet Nadia Tuéni from French into German. She has earned a M.A. in Political Science, Modern History and French Philology. She has three children and now lives as a freelance journalist and author in Berlin. Klappentext Elie Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War 'the Holocaust before the Holocaust'. Around one and a half million Armenians - men, women and children - were slaughtered at the time of the First World War. This book outlines some of the historical facts and consequences of the massacres but sees it as its main objective to present the Armenians to the foreign reader, their history but also their lives and achievements in the present that finds most Armenians dispersed throughout the world. 3000 years after their appearance in history, 1700 years after adopting Christianity and almost 90 years after the greatest catastrophe in their history, these 50 'biographical sketches of intellectuals, artists, journalists, and others...produce a complicated kaleidoscope of a divided but lively people that is trying once again, to rediscover its ethnic coherence. Armenian civilization does not consist solely of stories about a far-off past, but also of traditions and a national conscience suggestive of a future that will transcend the present.' [from the Preface] Zusammenfassung Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War 'the Holocaust before the Holocaust'. Around one and a half million Armenians - men, women and children - were slaughtered at the time of the First World War. This book outlines some of the historical facts and consequences of the massacres. Inhaltsverzeichnis Map Preface Yehuda Bauer Prologue Huberta von Voss Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Between Ararat and the Caucasus: Portrait of a Tiny Country in Five Lessons Tessa Hofmann Chapter 2. The Armenian Genocide: An Interpretation Vahakn N. Dadrian Chapter 3. The Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide in its European Context Taner Akçam Chapter 4. The Silent Partner: Imperial Germany and the Young Turks' Policy of Annihilation Wolfgang Gust PART II: PORTRAITS FROM AROUND THE WORLD History Chapter 5. The Investigator: Vahakn N. Dadrian, Genocide Scholar (Cambridge, MA) Huberta von Voss Chapter 6. A Foundation of Facts and Fiction: The Poet and Writer Peter Balakian (Hamilton, NY) Huberta von Voss Chapter 7. The Me...

Autorentext
Huberta v. Voss worked for many years as a political correspondent for various German dailies, before becoming spokesperson of the Speaker of the Bundestag. During the diplomatic assignment of her husband to Beirut and Nicosia, she edited and translated amongst others the Lebanese poet Nadia Tuéni from French into German. She has earned a M.A. in Political Science, Modern History and French Philology. She has three children and now lives as a freelance journalist and author in Berlin.

Klappentext
Elie Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War 'the Holocaust before the Holocaust'. Around one and a half million Armenians - men, women and children - were slaughtered at the time of the First World War. This book outlines some of the historical facts and consequences of the massacres but sees it as its main objective to present the Armenians to the foreign reader, their history but also their lives and achievements in the present that finds most Armenians dispersed throughout the world. 3000 years after their appearance in history, 1700 years after adopting Christianity and almost 90 years after the greatest catastrophe in their history, these 50 'biographical sketches of intellectuals, artists, journalists, and others...produce a complicated kaleidoscope of a divided but lively people that is trying once again, to rediscover its ethnic coherence. Armenian civilization does not consist solely of stories about a far-off past, but also of traditions and a national conscience suggestive of a future that will transcend the present.' [from the Preface]

Inhalt
Map Preface
Yehuda Bauer Prologue
Huberta von Voss Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Between Ararat and the Caucasus: Portrait of a Tiny Country in Five Lessons
Tessa Hofmann Chapter 2. The Armenian Genocide: An Interpretation
Vahakn N. Dadrian Chapter 3. The Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide in its European Context
Taner Akçam Chapter 4. The Silent Partner: Imperial Germany and the Young Turks' Policy of Annihilation
Wolfgang Gust PART II: PORTRAITS FROM AROUND THE WORLD History Chapter 5. The Investigator: Vahakn N. Dadrian, Genocide Scholar (Cambridge, MA)
Huberta von Voss Chapter 6. A Foundation of Facts and Fiction: The Poet and Writer Peter Balakian (Hamilton, NY)
Huberta von Voss Chapter 7. The Memory of Cilicia: Claude Mutafian, Historian and Mathematician (Paris)
Dorothea Hahn Chapter 8. Lord of the Books: Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation (New York City)
Huberta von Voss Words Chapter 9. Shadows and Phantoms: Michael J. Arlen, Writer and Media Critic (New York City)
Huberta von Voss Chapter 10. The Ashes of Smyrna: Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Writer (New York City)
Huberta von Voss Chapter 11. The Tracker: Nouritza Matossian, Writer and Actress (London and Nicosia)
Huberta von Voss Chapter 12. Difficult Truths: Nancy Krikorian, Writer (New York City)
Hrag Vartanian Chapter 13. A Seedbed of Words: Hrant Dink, Editor-in-chief of the Armenian Newspaper Agos (Istanbul)
Huberta von Voss Chapter 14. La Femme révoltée: Human Rights Activist and President of the Armenian PEN-Club, Anna Hakobyan (Yerevan)
Rainer Hermann Chapter 15. Vocation: Azgayin gortsich. Zori Balayan: An Intellectual (Karabakh-Yerevan)
Tessa Hofmann Faith Chapter 16. The Catholicos of All Armenians: His Holiness Karekin II (Echmiadzin)
Rainer Hermann Chapter 17. The Modernizer with the Miter: His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia (Antelias, Beirut)
Huberta von Voss Chapter 18. Referee on a Slippery Pitch: His Beatitude Mesrop II, Patriarch of the Armenians in Turkey (Istanbul)
Huberta von Voss Chapter 19. With Cell…

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