Armenian Studies Program Book/Video/CD/Archival Gifts

Books

Taner Akçam, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).

His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia, For a Church Beyond Its Wall (Antelias, Lebanon, 2007), gift of His Holiness Aram Catholicos.

Antonia Arslan, Skylark Farm: A Novel, translation from Italian by Geoffrey Brock (New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 2007). The famous book on the Armenian Genocide made into a major feature film by the Taviani brothers; a gift of the author.

Arsen Avagyan and Gaidz F. Minassian, The Armenians and the Committee of Union and Progress (in Turkish, translated from the French) (Istanbul: Aras, 2005).

Charles Aznavour, The Good Old Days, translated into Turkish from the French by Emre Aral Altuntash (Istanbul:  Aras, 2007).

Vahan Baiburtian, International Trade and the Armenian Merchants in the Seventeenth Century (New Delhi, 2004), courtesy of Armen Liloyan, Consul General of Armenia in Los Angeles.

Boris Baratov, The Armeniad: Visible Pages of History (Moscow: Linguist Publishers, 2005), gift of the editor Anna Petrosova.  Lavish album with a serious text, with some of the finest photographs of Armenian monuments. Available through the editor, anna.petrosova@yahoo.com.

Alexandre Beredjiklian, Arshile Gorky: Sept thèmes majeurs (Paris: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007), gift of the author.

Ruth Büttner and Judith Peltz, editors, Mythical Landscapes Then and Now: The Mystification of Landscapes in Search of National Identity (Erevan: Antares, 2006), proceedings of a conference held in Erevan in September 2005.  Gift of the editors.

Vahram Dadrian, Forsaken Love, translated from the Armenian by Ara Melkonian and Ara Sarafian (London: Taderon Press, 2006), gift of Chuck Nickson, Houston.

Arpiar Der Markarian, The Echo and the Passenger (in Turkish, translated from the Armenian) (Istanbul: Aras, 2006).

Editorial Committee, Famous Graduates of the [Gevorgyan] Jemaran (in Armenian) (Etchmiadzin: The Holy See, 2005), gift of His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II.

Lerna Ekmekçioglu and Melissa Bilal, editors, A Cry for Justice: Five Armenian Feminist Writers from Ottomans to Turkey (1862-1933), in Turkish (Istanbul: Aras, 2006).

Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers, (Berkeley: Heyday Books, October 2007), edited with an introduction by David Kherdian.

René Grousset, History of Armenia to 1071, translated  into Turkish from the French, Sosi Dolanoglu (Istanbul: Aras, 2005).

Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, The Passion in Art (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), gift of Hilary Richardson, Dublin.

Arto Jumbushian (Zareh Khrakhouni), Andradartzumner (Reflections), poems in Armenian (Istanbul, 2004), gift of the author.

Aïda Kazarian, Peintures Paintings (Brussels, 2004), gift of the artist.

Zareh Khrakhouni, Des Viulles et des Hommes, Poémes, translated from the Armenian by Nazareth Topalian (Istanbul, 2002), gift of the poet.

Zareh Khrakhouni, Mesropaton, poems in Armenian and English on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the founding of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrob Mashtots (Istanbul, 2005), gift of the author.

Fréderic Luisetto (1977-2000), Arméniens & autre Chrétiens d’Orient sous la domination mongole: L’Ilkhanat de Ghazan 1295-1304, (Paris: Geithner, 2007), thesis of a brilliant student edited by his former professor, Gérard Dédéyan.

Gurgen Mahari, Burning Orchards, trans. by Dickran and Haig Tahta and Hasmik Ghazarian (London: Black Apollo Press, 2007).

Krikor Maksoudian, The Origins of the Armenian Alphabet and Literature (New York: St. Vartan Press, 2006), gift of Fr. Krikor.

David Marcus, Oughtobiography–Leaves from the Diary of a Hyphenated Jew (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2001), gift of Hilary H. Richardson, Dublin. One of Ireland’s most famous short story writers who explains how reading Saroyan’s The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze changed his literary career.

Megerdich Margossian, Beads of the Prayer Beads, a novel-memoir, in Turkish (Istanbul: Aras, 2006).

Michael Plekon, Living Icons: Persons of Faith in the Eastern Church (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002), gift of the author.

Kegham Poochikian, The Caravan of Hope, The Journey of an Orphan of the Armenian Genocide, based on the author’s 1927 diary (Toronto, 2007), gift of Vicken Poochikian.

Hilary Richardson & John Scarry, An Introduction to Irish High Crosses (Dublin: Mercier Press, 1990), gift of Hilary Richardson.

Mayda Saris, Bir Istanbul ressami Civanyan: Jivanian a Painter of Istanbul (Istanbul, 2006), major study of one of the most important Armenian artists (1848-1906) of the Ottoman Empire; gift of Mihran and Payline Tovmassian, Istanbul.

James Snapp, Jr., The Origin of Mark 16:9-20 (Tipton, IN, 2007), gift of the author.

Nira and Michael Stone,Armenians–Art, Culture and Religion (Dublin: Chester Beatty Library, 2007), gift of the authors.

Michael E. Stone, Adamgirk': The Adam Book of Arak'el of Siwnik', translated with an introduction (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), gift of the author.

Michael E. Stone, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Armenian Studies. Collected Papers, 2 vols. (Louvain-Paris, 2006).

Armand Tchouhadjian, Saint Blaise. Evêque de Sébaste, Arménie mineure. Saint du IVe siècle universel et populaire (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004), gift of the author.  Massive and definitive study of one of Europe’s most popular saints of Armenian origin.

Osep Tokat, Armenian Master Silversmiths. (Los Angeles: Van Publishing, 2005), gift of the author through the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, Mission Hills, CA.

Vazgen I, Cathlicos of All Armenians, In Homage on the Tenth Anniversary of His Death(in Armenian) (Etchmiadzin: The Holy See, 2005), gift of His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II.

Puzant Yeghiayan, Heroes of Hayastan, (Cairo, 1993) gift of  the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), Journal of Armenian Studies, vol. VIII, no. 2 (Fall 2006), NAASR.

Archives, CDs, and DVDs

Tiroch Khorane (The Altar of God)and the CD of the Divine Liturgy at Holy Etchmiadzian. Gift of Archpriest Fr. Hovsep Hagopian, Burbank, CA 

Walter Karabian, Los Angeles, for archival materials and the DVD of ANCA Washington Power.

June Kemalyan, Acampo, for the collection of books from the estate of Arthur Armenag Kemalyan and Esther Matilda Kludgian.

Dick & Mary Nikssarian, Fowler, for the collection of Armenian and Turkish records.

Diana & Maral Piloyan, Mexico, for their collection of Armenian books and a complete set of the Armenian Encyclopedia.

Martin Tourigian, Drexel, PA, for the copy of the Hask periodical, a book by Yevgeni Yevtushenko, and four watercolors of various scenes of Armenia.