Let Them Not Return
Subtitle: Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: April 30, 2017
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781785334986
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Contextualizing the Sayfo in the First World War — David Gaunt, Naures Atto and Soner O. Barthoma
label: Introduction:; title: How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide? — Ugur Umit Ungor
label: Chapter 1.; title: Sayfo Genocide: The Culmination of an Anatolian Culture of Violence — David Gaunt
label: Chapter 2.; title: The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century — Florence Hellot-Bellier
label: Chapter 3.; title: Mor Dionysios ‘Abd an-Nur Aslan: Church Leader during a Genocide — Jan J. van Ginkel
label: Chapter 4.; title: Syriac Orthodox Leadership in the Post-Genocide Period (1918–26) and the Removal of the Patriarchate from Turkey — Naures Atto and Soner O. Barthoma
label: Chapter 5.; title: Sayfo, Firman, Qafle: The First World War from the Perspective of Syriac Christians — Shabo Talay
label: Chapter 6.; title: A Historical Note of October 1915 Written in Dayro D-Zafaran (Deyrulzafaran) — Sebastian Brock
label: Chapter 7.; title: Interpretation of the ‘Sayfo’ in Gallo Shabo’s Poem — Simon Birol
label: Chapter 8.; title: The Psychological Legacy of the Sayfo: An Inter-generational Transmission of Fear and Distrust — Onver A. Cetrez
label: Chapter 9.; title: Sayfo and Denialism: A New Field of Activity for Agents of the Turkish Republic — Racho Donef
label: Chapter 10.; title: Turkey’s Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide — Abdulmesih Bar Abraham
label: Chapter 11.; title: Who Killed Whom? A Comparison of Political Discussions in France and Sweden about the Genocide of 1915 — Christophe Premat
label: Chapter 12.