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NAASR Event with Christina Maranci Live on ZOOM and Livestream on YouTube ~ May 21, 2020

NAASR Event with Christina Maranci Live on ZOOM and Livestream on YouTube ~ May 21, 2020

We miss you! We hope you have been enjoying the videos of past events on our YouTube channelThis Thursday evening, May 21, 2020, at 7:30 p.m. we will be going live online to present Christina Maranci's talk New Discoveries at Ani Cathedral.

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Book Stamps and What They Tell Us

Book Stamps and What They Tell Us

NAASR's Mardigian Library has over 30,000 books published over the past three and a half centuries. This includes titles published almost everywhere Armenians have lived in any significant numbers, including major centers of Armenian life (and publishing) such as Yerevan, Etchmiadzin, Tiflis, St. Petersburg, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Smyrna, New Julfa, Beirut, Cairo, Sofia, Venice, Paris, Marseilles, New York, Boston, Fresno, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and many others. In a way, these books contain the story of the Armenian diaspora itself.

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Two Classic Works on Artsakh

Two Classic Works on Artsakh

While taking note of the anniversary of the capture of Shushi this week in 1992, one of the key events in the Nagorno-Karabakh war, we look back at two noteworthy books from NAASR’s Mardigian Library from the late 19th century that explore the then recent past of Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabagh: Khamsayi Melikʻutʻiwnnerě (Խամսայի Մելիքութիւններ) by Raffi and Gaghtnik‘ Gharabaghi (Գաղտնիք Ղարաբաղի) by Apresi Beknazareants‘.

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“Come On-a My House” and the Armenian-American Pop Music Invasion That Never Was

“Come On-a My House” and the Armenian-American Pop Music Invasion That Never Was

Not everything in NAASR’s Mardigian Library is a book. There are also, among other things, a huge number of recordings—78s, LPs, tapes, CDs, etc., all with some Armenian connection or another. Some of these will be topics of future installments; most of them are obscure, except to specialists and collectors. For this installment we will go in a totally different direction and focus on a record that was a huge hit in its day, and its Armenian connections.

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Hushamatean Mets Egherni, 1965, and the Rebirth of Armenian Genocide Scholarship

Hushamatean Mets Egherni, 1965, and the Rebirth of Armenian Genocide Scholarship

Fifty-five years ago, April 1965, can truly be seen as, in the words of author (and NAASR Board member) Michael Bobelian, “the birth of the modern campaign of justice” for the Armenian Genocide. 1965 may also be seen as the year of the re-birth of efforts to document the Armenian Genocide, which would lead to the creation, in more recent years, of a growing body of scholarship on the Genocide.

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