Assyrian Printing in the USA
Subtitle: John Baba
Publisher: Atour Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: syr
Notes: John Baba (Aghajan Baba of Seir) edited and published Kitavona, or the Assyrian Chronicle, an Assyrian monthly magazine published in Chicago between 1932 and 1937. In addition to the magazine, twelve other works that he printed have come down to us. This volume contains four items: a religious tract by Melchizedek Z. Bacchus, an annonymous history of the “Nestorian” church, a hymnal which inculdes musical notations printed from rigt-to-left, and another hymnal. This volume is part of a series that aims at preserving Assyrian literature printed in the United States during the era of letterpress. It was inspired by the bibliographic research of J. F. Coakley who has provided the introduction to the volume.