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Let Them Not Return : Sayfo : the genocide of the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Gaunt, David, 1944- editor, Atto, Naures, editor, Barthoma, Soner Onder, editor

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Berghahn
• Subject: Assyrians Turkey History 20th century. / Assyrians Iran History 20th century. / Assyrians Iraq History 20th century. / Syriac Christians Turkey History 20th century. / Syriac Christians Iran History 20th century. / Syriac Christians Iraq History 20th century. / Chaldean Catholics History 20th century. / Massacres Turkey History 20th century. / Massacres Iran History 20th century. / Massacres Iraq History 20th century. / Genocide Religious aspects History 20th century. / Turkey Ethnic relations History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9781785334986

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DR435.A87 L48 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE