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ZORYAN INSTITUTE: REFLECTIONS ON YAIR AURON'S BANALITY OF INDIFFERENCE
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Monday, July 22nd, 2013
The Banality of Indifference by Yair Auron
The Zoryan Institute welcomes the Armenian translation of Prof. Yair
Auron's book titled The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the
Armenian Genocide, an important book in the effort to combat denial.
The book, published originally in Hebrew in 1995, is a groundbreaking
record of the reaction of the Jewish community in Palestine before
the founding of the State of Israel to the Armenian Genocide. Seeing
the importance of this pioneering work of comparative history, the
Zoryan Institute invited Auron to Yerevan in 1995 to participate in
the International Conference on "Problems of Genocide," the first on
genocide held in independent Armenia.
While the official Jewish reaction to the Genocide was muted and
largely self-interested, Auron documents instances of support. The
Nili Group, for example, an underground intelligence organization,
actively sought to aid the Armenian victims. Chaim Weizmann, a Zionist
leader and later the first President of the State of Israel, and
Nahum Sokolov, a Zionist leader and a pioneer of Hebrew journalism,
publicly condemned the killings. Zionist writers and journalists
expressed outraged identification with the Armenians and tried to
arouse the conscience of the world. This book was made available to
the English reading public by a Zoryan sponsoring its translation,
editing and publication.
The Institute commissioned a new study by Auron, which was published
in 2003 as The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide.
It dealt with the official policies of the State of Israel regarding
the Armenian Genocide, which Auron decried as denial. We hope that
the Banality of Denial will also be made available to Armenian readers
before the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
Prof. Auron, a long-time member of the Zoryan Institute's Academic
Board of Directors, has been a strong advocate of raising awareness
of the Armenian Genocide in Israel. Auron was an early supporter and
participant in Zoryan's Genocide and Human Rights University Program
and has gone on to be a leading educator in Israel and abroad on
genocide, as well as the Armenian Genocide in particular. He has
developed a curriculum that is used in Israel and has been adopted
in other countries and has published a series of books in Hebrew and
English on the various major cases of genocide, including one on the
Armenian Genocide earlier this year.
Prof. Yair Auron is a scholar of great originality, a strong advocate
of universal human rights, and a soldier in the fight against denial.
It is very gratifying that his work is being acknowledged and
appreciated by the Armenian Writers Union and government officials.
The Zoryan Institute and its subsidiary, the International Institute
for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, is the first non-profit,
international center devoted to the research and documentation of
contemporary issues with a focus on Genocide, Diaspora and Armenia.
http://asbarez.com/111847/zoryan-institute-reflections-on-yair-auron%E2%80%99s-banality-of-indifference/
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
The Banality of Indifference by Yair Auron
The Zoryan Institute welcomes the Armenian translation of Prof. Yair
Auron's book titled The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the
Armenian Genocide, an important book in the effort to combat denial.
The book, published originally in Hebrew in 1995, is a groundbreaking
record of the reaction of the Jewish community in Palestine before
the founding of the State of Israel to the Armenian Genocide. Seeing
the importance of this pioneering work of comparative history, the
Zoryan Institute invited Auron to Yerevan in 1995 to participate in
the International Conference on "Problems of Genocide," the first on
genocide held in independent Armenia.
While the official Jewish reaction to the Genocide was muted and
largely self-interested, Auron documents instances of support. The
Nili Group, for example, an underground intelligence organization,
actively sought to aid the Armenian victims. Chaim Weizmann, a Zionist
leader and later the first President of the State of Israel, and
Nahum Sokolov, a Zionist leader and a pioneer of Hebrew journalism,
publicly condemned the killings. Zionist writers and journalists
expressed outraged identification with the Armenians and tried to
arouse the conscience of the world. This book was made available to
the English reading public by a Zoryan sponsoring its translation,
editing and publication.
The Institute commissioned a new study by Auron, which was published
in 2003 as The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide.
It dealt with the official policies of the State of Israel regarding
the Armenian Genocide, which Auron decried as denial. We hope that
the Banality of Denial will also be made available to Armenian readers
before the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
Prof. Auron, a long-time member of the Zoryan Institute's Academic
Board of Directors, has been a strong advocate of raising awareness
of the Armenian Genocide in Israel. Auron was an early supporter and
participant in Zoryan's Genocide and Human Rights University Program
and has gone on to be a leading educator in Israel and abroad on
genocide, as well as the Armenian Genocide in particular. He has
developed a curriculum that is used in Israel and has been adopted
in other countries and has published a series of books in Hebrew and
English on the various major cases of genocide, including one on the
Armenian Genocide earlier this year.
Prof. Yair Auron is a scholar of great originality, a strong advocate
of universal human rights, and a soldier in the fight against denial.
It is very gratifying that his work is being acknowledged and
appreciated by the Armenian Writers Union and government officials.
The Zoryan Institute and its subsidiary, the International Institute
for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, is the first non-profit,
international center devoted to the research and documentation of
contemporary issues with a focus on Genocide, Diaspora and Armenia.