Let Them Not Return: Sayfo a The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire
David Gaunt
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
War and Genocide
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785334986
SKU
V9781785334986
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About David Gaunt
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Let Them Not Return: Sayfo a The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire
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
Marc Levene, University of Southampton