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The Society for Armenian
Studies (SAS) announces the publication of Volume 17 of its refereed Journal,
under the editorship of Dr. Joseph
A. Kéchichian, and contains nine original
essays as well as eleven book reviews.
Two articles focus on the
Genocide, one by Steven Leonard Jacobs on “The Journey of Death: Lemkin and the
Armenian Genocide” that elucidates
on Raphael Lemkin’s concerns, and a second
co-authored by Joceline Chabot, Sylvia Kasparian and Christine Thériault on “A
shared memory? The social demand for the
recognition of the Armenian genocide by the Armenian community of
In addition to these four
contributions, five papers from an original collection of nine—with the next
four slated for publication in
the next JSAS issue, highlight “A Century of
Armenians in America: New Social Science
Research.” The five papers are by Knarik
Avakian,
“The Early History of Armenian Emigration to the U.S.A.”: “Evidence
from the Archives of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople”;
Claudia
Der-Martirosian, “Armenians in the 1980, 1990 & 2000 U.S. Census”; Margaret
Manoogian, “Exploring the family ties and legacies
of older Armenian American
women”; Ani Yazedjian, “Learning to Be Armenian: Understanding the Process of
Ethnic Identity Development
for Armenian Adolescents”; and Ben Alexander, “To
Supply Armenia with Architects: The Press, the Parties, and the Second
Generation
in the 1930s.” Without exaggeration, these articles add significant
value to our knowledge of Armenians in the
The Journal of the Society
for
Membership in the SAS and copies of the
Journal
may be ordered from Professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian, the Director of
the Armenian Studies Program at the CSU, Fresno, 5245 N Backer
Ave. PB4, Fresno,
California, 93740-8001, (559) 278-2669 – Office; (559) 278-2129 – Fax.