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YAIR AURON'S BOOK TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN DIASPORA COMMUNITIES
14:50, 8 November, 2013
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS. Author and Publicist Zori Balayan
presented 500 copies of Yair Auron's book titled "The Banality of
Indifference (Zionism and the Armenian Genocide)" to the Ministry
of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia to be distributed in the
Armenian communities of Diaspora. The Press and Public Relations
Department of the Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia
informed "Armenpress" that the Minister of Diaspora of the Republic
of Armenia Hranush Hakobyan introduced "The Banality of Indifference
(Zionism and the Armenian Genocide)" and stated that notwithstanding
the book was published yet in late 1990s, it was translated into the
Armenian only in 2013 due to the efforts of publicist Zori Balayan.
The genocide of Armenians by Turks during the First World War was
one of the most horrendous deeds of modern times and a precursor of
the genocidal acts that have marked the rest of the twentieth century.
Despite the worldwide attention the atrocities received at the
time, the massacre has not remained a part of the world's historical
consciousness. The parallels between the Jewish and Armenian situations
and the reactions of the Jewish community in Palestine (the Yishuv)
to the Armenian genocide, which was muted and largely self-interested,
are explored by Yair Auron. In attempting to assess and interpret
these disparate reactions, Auron maintains a fairminded balance in
assessing claims of altruism and self-interest, expressed in universal,
not merely Jewish, terms.
While not denying the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Auron carefully
distinguishes it from the Armenian genocide reviewing existing theories
and relating Armenian and Jewish experience to ongoing issues of
politics and identity. As a groundbreaking work of comparative history,
this volume will be read by Armenian area specialists, historians of
Zionism and Israel, and students of genocide. Yair Auron is senior
lecturer at The Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of
Education. He is the author, in Hebrew, of Jewish-Israeli Identity,
Sensitivity to World Suffering: Genocide in the Twentieth Century,
We Are All German Jews, and Jewish Radicals in France during the
Sixties and Seventies (published in French as well).
© 2009 ARMENPRESS.am
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/739379/yair-auron%E2%80%99s-book-to-be-distributed-in-diaspora-communities.html
From: A. Papazian
14:50, 8 November, 2013
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS. Author and Publicist Zori Balayan
presented 500 copies of Yair Auron's book titled "The Banality of
Indifference (Zionism and the Armenian Genocide)" to the Ministry
of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia to be distributed in the
Armenian communities of Diaspora. The Press and Public Relations
Department of the Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia
informed "Armenpress" that the Minister of Diaspora of the Republic
of Armenia Hranush Hakobyan introduced "The Banality of Indifference
(Zionism and the Armenian Genocide)" and stated that notwithstanding
the book was published yet in late 1990s, it was translated into the
Armenian only in 2013 due to the efforts of publicist Zori Balayan.
The genocide of Armenians by Turks during the First World War was
one of the most horrendous deeds of modern times and a precursor of
the genocidal acts that have marked the rest of the twentieth century.
Despite the worldwide attention the atrocities received at the
time, the massacre has not remained a part of the world's historical
consciousness. The parallels between the Jewish and Armenian situations
and the reactions of the Jewish community in Palestine (the Yishuv)
to the Armenian genocide, which was muted and largely self-interested,
are explored by Yair Auron. In attempting to assess and interpret
these disparate reactions, Auron maintains a fairminded balance in
assessing claims of altruism and self-interest, expressed in universal,
not merely Jewish, terms.
While not denying the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Auron carefully
distinguishes it from the Armenian genocide reviewing existing theories
and relating Armenian and Jewish experience to ongoing issues of
politics and identity. As a groundbreaking work of comparative history,
this volume will be read by Armenian area specialists, historians of
Zionism and Israel, and students of genocide. Yair Auron is senior
lecturer at The Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of
Education. He is the author, in Hebrew, of Jewish-Israeli Identity,
Sensitivity to World Suffering: Genocide in the Twentieth Century,
We Are All German Jews, and Jewish Radicals in France during the
Sixties and Seventies (published in French as well).
© 2009 ARMENPRESS.am
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/739379/yair-auron%E2%80%99s-book-to-be-distributed-in-diaspora-communities.html
From: A. Papazian