La revue HOG, publiée à Paris de 1933 à 1935, est une publication en langue arménienne d’une organisation communiste du même nom : le HOG ou Comité d’aide à l'Arménie. En lien direct avec les ...autorités soviétiques d’Arménie, la revue relaie leur idéologie en diaspora, en vantant l’édification de l’Arménie soviétique. Mettant en perspective le contexte historique dans lequel la revue HOG a opéré à Paris, cet article vise à présenter son mode de fonctionnement et ses objectifs d’influence au sein de l’émigration arménienne. Il présente la méthode propagandiste utilisée dans cette revue, qui tend à sensibiliser son lectorat aux concepts internationalistes et à propager l’idée de la grandeur, de l’invincibilité et de la modernité de la nouvelle société soviétique.
The HOG journal was published in Armenian in Paris from 1933 to 1935 by Communist organization of the same name: the “HOG” or Aid to Armenia Committee. With direct links to the Soviet authorities in Armenia, the review relayed their ideology to the diaspora, extolling the virtues of building a Soviet Armenia. Putting into perspective the historical context in which the magazine operated in Paris, this article aims to present its modus operandi and its influence strategy within the Armenian diaspora. It shows that the HOG journal’s propagandistic methods aimed to increase its readership’s awareness of internationalist concepts and spread the idea of the greatness, the invincibility and the modernity of the new Soviet society.
Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing. ...Consequently, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide's victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria. Through analysis of diaries and other source material, it reconstructs the rhythms of daily life within an often bleak and hostile environment, in the face of a gradually disintegrating social fabric.
Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing. ...Consequently, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide's victims.Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria. Through analysis of diaries and other source material, it reconstructs the rhythms of daily life within an often bleak and hostile environment, in the face of a gradually disintegrating social fabric.
This essay focuses on the process of ‘rebuilding’ the Armenian nation in the newly constituted states of the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq) in the immediate aftermath of World War ...I. These efforts were centred on the two largest sectors of the population to have survived the Catastrophe, orphans and familyless (or widowed) women. The essay examines the ideology of ‘national reconstruction’ and some of its internal contradictions. It pays particular attention to both Armenian women who married Muslims during the deportations and the children born of these marriages, as well as to Armenians who turned to prostitution to survive in the complex conditions prevailing in this period. The author makes use of extensive, previously neglected archival material: for example, correspondence by some of the principal actors, reports written during the process of locating and rounding up Armenian orphans, and documents that shed light on life within the walls of orphanages and women's shelters. The author assembled this archival material in Paris, Beirut, Aleppo, and Cairo, after surveying the contents of various archives.
Vahé Tachjian is a historian and the author of numerous books and articles on Armenian survivors of the genocide and the genesis of post-genocide Armenian communities in the Middle East. Based in ...Berlin, he has since 2010 been the co-director and chief editor of Houshamadyan, a project aiming to revive the material and cultural life of Ottoman Armenians prior to and after the genocide. In this interview, he engages with the notion of homeland and reflects on its importance in his own work and diasporic experience.
To remember a native village or town, collect written accounts, photos, and maps, and raise funds to publish a book that displayed all of this material, this was the decades-long dream of many who ...made up the first generation of Armenian exiles. It was in this general environment, starting in the 1920s, that books— houshamadyans—began to appear in succession in various Armenian diasporan communities. This article analyzes the post-genocide ideological environment where most of the houshamadyans were written and published. It examines the contents of this genre of book in detail and shows how the houshamadyans, which in their essence are a depiction of a past life characterized by diversity, adapt themselves to diasporic nationalist environments.
La revue HOG, publiée à Paris de 1933 à 1935, est une publication en langue arménienne d’une organisation communiste du même nom : le HOG ou Comité d’aide à l'Arménie. En lien direct avec les ...autorités soviétiques d’Arménie, la revue relaie leur idéologie en diaspora, en vantant l’édification de l’Arménie soviétique. Mettant en perspective le contexte historique dans lequel la revue HOG a opéré à Paris, cet article vise à présenter son mode de fonctionnement et ses objectifs d’influence au sein de l’émigration arménienne. Il présente la méthode propagandiste utilisée dans cette revue, qui tend à sensibiliser son lectorat aux concepts internationalistes et à propager l’idée de la grandeur, de l’invincibilité et de la modernité de la nouvelle société soviétique.
Le triomphe de l’uniformité Joseph Rustom; Vahé Tachjian
Études arméniennes contemporaines,
12/2022, Letnik:
14
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
The purpose of this article is to study the post-Ottoman Armenian reconstruction ideology and its impact on religious architecture in Lebanon from the 1930s until the 1960s. Drawing on the example of ...five places of worship, three churches built for the newly constructed Armenian refugee quarters in Beirut and two cathedrals built to represent the Armenian religious communities at national level, it seeks to reveal the ideologies that were at work to develop new typologies for church architecture in exile. It proves that the creators of these typologies purposefully turned their back on the architectural styles and know-hows related to the churches of the lost Ottoman hometowns and embraced the medieval religious architecture of historical Armenia as ultimate reference and main source of inspiration. This architecture was institutionalized and became the norm in the whole diaspora and, later, in Armenia.
Le triomphe de l’uniformité Rustom, Joseph; Tachjian, Vahé
Études arméniennes contemporaines,
2022
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Cet article se propose d’étudier les enjeux idéologiques de la reconstruction arménienne post-ottomane au Liban et son impact sur l’architecture religieuse des années 1930 à 1960. En s’appuyant sur ...l’exemple de cinq édifices religieux, trois églises construites pour les nouveaux quartiers de réfugiés arméniens à Beyrouth et deux cathédrales construites pour représenter les communautés religieuses arméniennes au niveau national, les auteurs mettent analysent les idéologies qui ont alors sous-tendu le développement de nouvelles typologies architecturales religieuses en exil. L’étude montre que les créateurs de ces typologies ont délibérément tourné le dos aux styles architecturaux et aux savoir-faire liés aux églises arméniennes des villes ottomanes d’avant l’émigration, en adoptant l’architecture religieuse médiévale de l’Arménie historique comme référence ultime et principale source d’inspiration. Cette architecture sera ensuite institutionnalisée et deviendra la norme dans toute la diaspora et, ultérieurement, en Arménie.
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