Let Them Not Return

Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-051-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: War and Genocide

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 Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) 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 Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaunt, David

Atto, Naures

Barthoma, Soner O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Contextualizing the Sayfo in the First World War

David Gaunt, Naures Atto and Soner O. Barthoma

Chapter 1. How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide?

Ugur Ümit Üngör

Chapter 2. Sayfo Genocide: The Culmination of an Anatolian Culture of Violence

David Gaunt

Chapter 3. The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Florence Hellot-Bellier

Chapter 4. Mor Dionysios ‘Abd an-Nur Aslan: Church Leader during a Genocide

Jan J. van Ginkel

Chapter 5. Syriac Orthodox Leadership in the Post-Genocide Period (1918–26) and the Removal of the Patriarchate from Turkey

Naures Atto and Soner O. Barthoma

Chapter 6. Sayfo, Firman, Qafle: The First World War from the Perspective of Syriac Christians

Shabo Talay

Chapter 7. A Historical Note of October 1915 Written in Dayro D-Zafaran (Deyrulzafaran)

Sebastian Brock

Chapter 8. Interpretation of the ‘Sayfo’ in Gallo Shabo’s Poem

Simon Birol

Chapter 9. The Psychological Legacy of the Sayfo: An Inter-generational Transmission of Fear and Distrust

Önver A. Cetrez

Chapter 10. Sayfo and Denialism: A New Field of Activity for Agents of the Turkish Republic

Racho Donef

Chapter 11. Turkey’s Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide

Abdulmesih BarAbraham

Chapter 12. Who Killed Whom? A Comparison of Political Discussions in France and Sweden about the Genocide of 1915

Christophe Premat

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gaunt, David
David Gaunt is Professor of History at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn 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, Syriac, and Chaldean genocide.

Atto, Naures
Naures Atto is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in World Christianities and their Diaspora in the European Context and Principal 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).

Barthoma, Soner O.
Soner O. Barthoma is an independent researcher in the field of Political Science and co-coordinator of the Erasmus+ Aramaic Online Project at Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of several articles about the modern history of Assyrians in Turkey.

David Gaunt is Professor of History at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn 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, Syriac, and Chaldean genocide.