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These volumes comprise a collection of papers by Michael E. Stone, written over a period of 35 years. Stone is a leading scholar in two different fields of research, the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Armenian Studies. So this collection includes essays relating to the origins and nature of the Apocryphal literature and its relationship with the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as more specific studies devoted to themes that have interested Stone throughout his career, including Messianism, 4 Ezra, Adam and Eve, and Aramaic Levi Document. His Armenian interests have embraced the Armenian Biblical text, Armenian pilgrimage to and presence in the Holy Land and Armenian paleography and epigraphy. Papers included in the volumes, some of which were originally published in obscure venues, touch on all these themes. A number of previously unpublished papers are included. ... Read more

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Title: Mary Mother of Christ the King and her influence, as reflected in the Armenian Sharaknoc' (hymnary).(Critical essay)
Author: Thamar Dasnabedian
Publication: The Ecumenical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: World Council of Churches
Volume: 60Issue: 1-2Page: 53(6)

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A History of Armenian Women s Writing: 1880-1921 introduces the reader to the wealth and diversity of women s writing in Armenian in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on six Armenian women writers-Srpouhi Dussap, Sibyl, Mariam Khatisian, Marie Beylerian, Shushanik Kurghinian and Zabel Yesayian and these authorsnovels, short stories, poems and essays. The study contends that Western and Eastern Armenian women writers, while not displaying a uniformity of opinion and vision, nevertheless found inspiration in the activism, writings and arguments of one another and form a literary genealogy of women s writing in Armenian.The study has several objectives. For general readers and those interested primarily in the historical account it provides a chronological description of the formative period of modern Armenian women s writing beginning in 1880 with the publication of a series of articles on women s education and employment by Srpouhi Dussap and concludes with the physical dislocations and psychological traumas of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and the fall of the first independent Republic of Armenia in 1921. On another level the book concentrates on disentangling the contemporaneous intellectual debates about Armenian women s proper sphere. The author argues that the role of the Armenian woman was central to debates about national identity, education, the family and society by Armenian writers and women writers sought to participate in and guide this discourse through literary texts. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Title: Lorne Shirinian. Writing Memory.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Hagop Yeramian
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
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Very Courageous and Thorough
Kay Mouradian and her Mother Flora exhibited a great degree of courage in writing the book "A Gift In The Sun".As the son of an Armenian Genocide Survivor, I know how difficult it was for Kay's Mother to not only remember the events that took place during this period, but how courageous it was of Flora to sit and talk about it in the great detail set forth in her Daughter Kay's book.Most Armenian Genocide Survivors have spent years trying to forget, or at least push to the back of their mind, these horrible events.Many of these Survivors refuse to talk about these events, not even to their own children, because it is too painful.Flora Mouradian not only had the courage to talk about these events, but to discuss them in great detail.Kay Mouradian had the courage to listen and write these details about her Mother's pain and suffering and to publish them in her book.And why?Because these stories must be told, written about, published, and disseminated as widely as possible so that such a horrible Genocide will not happen again.

Those of us who know Kay Mouradian, also know the thorough research she did to develop and explain the political and governmental actions of the Turkish Leaders that organized and implemented this Armenian Genocide.Kay spent years of research in the archives of several countries, discussed the events with many people and performed the kind or research done only by professional historians as the background material for her book.It is a well documented, thorough and very courageous story about the Armenian Genocide and the victims who suffered and survived through it.

Outstanding!
This account of the Armentian genocide while tragic, was ironically uplifting. I could not put the book down. Around each curve of this gripping journey there are true heros.Knowing it is based on extensive research and seeped in the author's personal family history brings an intimacy to the horrific story.I expected this to be a depressing tragic account of history. While it is certainly that, it is also a page turning journey of a young woman's survival made possible by many brave and inspiring real life heroes that have been lost to history. I highly reccomend this to all, including teens who rarley hear of this very important piece of European history. This is truely a work of art.

A True Armenian Story
I had to hold back tears for most of what I read in this book. This is a great book that reveals once again what the Turks did to the Armenians. If you have read any other Armenian Geoncide related books by other authors, you will notice the smiliarity of the stories. They experiences of people who were part of the inhumane acts by the Turks are very much alike. Ms. Mouradian has done a great job describing her family's experience during one of the most difficult times in the 20th century. This is a must read if you want to either learn about the Genocide or know more about it.

The Forgotten Genocide
A GIFT IN THE SUNLIGHT

By Kay Mouradian

Review by James Ajemian, Ph.D.

In recent years Armenian political organizations in the United States have brought increasing pressure to bear on Congress and the president to formally acknowledge the 1915-16 Turkish genocide against the Armenians.This has produced a politically financed assault by the Turkish government to deny such an event ever occurred despite potent historical documentation to the contrary.In addition an increasing number of countries around the world have declared their recognition of the first genocide of the twentieth century. Yet the U.S. hesitates to do so for fear of alienating its ally Turkey, in order to gain political, economic and military advantages in the Middle East.Nevertheless the drive to achieve American recognition continues to grow.It has won adherents from government representatives at all levels, including a number of U.S. cities that have officially recognized the Armenian Genocide.
In the midst of all of this activity, Kay Mouradian, a retired professor of health and physical education, has written a novel based in part on her mother Flora's experience of living through and surviving the genocide.Mouradian says, "This is more than just Flora's story.It is also the story of every Armenian who survived that tragic historical event that continues to be glossed over by the modern world."
In addition to preserving family memories Mouradian did extensive research for this book.A Gift in the Sunlight tells the story of a teenage Armenian girl from Hadjin and her family, her parents, grandmother, and five siblings, who, along with all the Armenians from her village, were forced by order of the Turkish government into a death march to Syria to the south.As we know, this was repeated throughout Turkey, leading to the near extinction of a cultural, religious, and civil society that had existed for more than two thousand years.
With Flora as the central character, we travel along the march with this family.Flora and her older sister, Verkin, face dangerous encounters with Turkish soldiers.Everyone suffers from the lack of food, water and sustenance in general. Exposure to the elements brings illness and death to thousands.
When Flora reaches Syria she is separated from her family and faces vividly described trying events.We see a desperate attempt for an end to her misery.We experience her anguish over her own family and we see her in encounters with strangers also entangled in confusion and chaos.Flora has had her world, her hopes, ambitions and plans crushed right before her eyes.She had attended school in Constantinople and, under the guidance of an American Missionary instructor, had hoped to pursue higher education in America.
Because so much has been written about the Armenian Genocide I questioned whether a description of that horrific, monstrous disaster could be successfully narrated in a novel.Yet Mouradian's book left me feeling uplifted and with my soul comforted.What is particularly intriguing is her skill in conveying all of the emotions of a family split apart by death, by separations, and by reunion too. The tragic story of Flora and her family stands for that of thousands of other families that suffered a similar fate, or worse, in those ill-begotten times.
By beginning with family history Mouradian has accomplished a feat that I doubted would be possible.The momentum of A Gift in the Sunlight is like that of a dramatic, vivid documentary rather than a novel; yet, like a novel, it keeps the reader spellbound right up to the conclusion.The postscript, a description of Mouradian's mother's last years, adds to the profound quality of her writing.
The response from non-Armenian readers will differ from that of Armenians, who are fully cognizant of those terrible times.They are in one way or another connected to long-ago events that have very few still-living witnesses.I can imagine the impact this book will have on Armenians who are descendants of those who were lost or those who survived but suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome.Each of us could tell a story about our parents or grandparents.My own mother, too, suffered severely and never fully recovered from her trauma.By presenting her tale, Mouradian gives comfort to and does justice to all Armenians.
Non-Armenian readers will be enlightened by the connection between the Armenian Genocide and the genocides that have followed.I urge everyone to read this book, and to be prepared for the ending as well as the postscript that follows.

Dr. Ajemian is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at San Diego State University

A Gift in the Sunlight: An Armenian Story
This story of a young Armenian girl's life during the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, is an amazing story of survival and strength.Filor and her family were victims of the death marches, ethnic cleansing, racism and prejudice during the early 1900's. Many of her family members were killed, died or were separated.This story focuses on young Filor, the author's mother, as she faces death, heartbreak and destruction to her life and family.


This story is especially important for younger readers to understand atrocities such as these happened in "modern times", and how racism and hate can only hurt and destroy lives. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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21 short stories by 21 different Armenian authors. Published in Beirut, Lebanon. ... Read more