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...Figure 3 Left: Designer: Yervant Herian Project: Armenian Genocide of 1915 in Contemporary Graphic and Art Posters ...

...Five generations of an Armenian family gathered together for this photo from Christopher de Bellaigue’s book. Credit: Penguin Press. ...

... on the Armenian genocide; its showpiece was a visit to Syria’s Der Zor Desert, the site of one of the largest mass killings of the past century—400,000 Armenians are said to have perished there. (In The Burning Tigris , Balakian calls Der Zor “the epicenter of death.”) The sections that detail Balakian’s journey...

... of the Holocaust, but he laments the absence of a universal application of its lessons. He de-cries Israel’s support for Serbia during its ethnic cleansing of Kosovo; he has qualms about Israel’s relationship with Turkey given, among other things, its refusal to acknowledge the 1915–17 Armenian genocide; and he...

..., but also Armenian and Greek Orthodox, German colonists, and others. They were educated urban classes, with a taste for city life and culture. The documentary starts with a scene in a movie theater, once known as Regent Cinema (Lev Smadar today). As a red velvet curtain opens theatrically, we hear...

... that Zionism initially arose not from the turmoil of the late Ottoman empire—as did Arab, Turkish, and Armenian nationalisms—but from that of nineteenth-century Europe. And yet Zionism as ideology, as political practice, and finally as a set of existential anxieties about maintaining a Jewish identity...

... by expressing thanks to all around the world, including in the United States. We God fo r the fo o d and by expressing a com mitm ent to think of the enslavement of Africans, and the oppression do what you can to redistribute food on this planet so of Armenians, homosexuals, women, and many others...

..., and the oppression of Armenians, PO SSIBILITY OF THE homosexuals, women, and many others. Yet, tonight it is M ESSIANIC AGE appropriate for us to focus also on the suffering of the Jewish We open the door for Elijah—the prophet w ho heralds people and to affirm our solidarity with victims of anti- the coming...

... of fundamen­ and violence. We think of the genocide against native tal transformation, to be stuck in the pain of past oppres­ peoples all around the world, including in the U.S.: the sion, to build our religion around memories of the enslavement of Africans, the oppression of Armenians, Holocaust...