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Sayfo - an Account of the Assyrian Genocide

Adeb Mshiho Neman author Michael Abdalla translator ?ukasz Kiczko translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:31st Mar '21

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This text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today's Turkish state). The perspective is one that is little known and less discussed. Translated and annotated by a master of Syriac with an in-depth knowledge of modern Assyrian history, this text creates a unique opportunity for new and progressive scholarship. The Assyrian genocide is one of the forgotten atrocities of the 20th century. The physical destruction was but one element; it also caused demographic shifts, loss of territory, generational trauma and linguicide, along with cultural genocide/ethnocide and identity erosion.

ISBN: 9781474447508

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288 pages