Hye Sharzhoom Armenian Action
Staff Report
Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Prof. Sergio La Porta, and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos, and archival gifts, either offered personally, or to the Program.
AGBU Hye Geen, Pasadena, California, for a new book AGBU Hye Geen (Los Angeles, 2014) 322pp., in Armenian and English. The book covers the first twenty years of the organization’s social, educational, cultural, and humanitarian initiatives.
Karen Cizek, Glendale, Arizona, for a copy of her grandfather’s memoirs, A True Life Story, 115pp., in English, by Souren H. Hanessian. Hanessian was born in Garin (Erzerum) and survived the Armenian Genocide.
Armenian Culture and Solidarity Association, Istanbul, Turkey, for their new 2015 calendar, featuring photographs from the Richard and Anne Elbrecht collection of historical photographs (courtesy of the Armenian Studies Program).
Lucy Erysian, Fresno, for a copy of her new book, The Torn Photograph: A Story of Hope and Survival (Fresno: Poppy Lane Publishing, 2015), 30pp., in English and Armenian. A children’s book with the theme of family and family loss from the Genocide.
Betty Ann (Noorigian) Hagopian, Fresno, for a copy of Seeroon Darer: Armenian Ornate Initials from the Past, to the Present, for the Future, by Seeroon Yeretzian (Glendale, CA: Abril Publishing, 2013), 248pp., illustrated. The purpose of the book is to acquaint people with the ornate initials used throughout the history of Armenian illuminated manuscripts.
Leo and Marlys Keoshian, Palo Alto, California, for several books related to Armenian Studies, including a guidebook to the Armenian Mekhitarist Monastery of San Lazarro.
Maiden Lane Press, Bronxville, NY, for a copy of Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan: 1915-1919 by Aram Haigaz (Maiden Lane Press, 2014), 362pp., in English. The book was translated by his daughter Iris Haigaz Chekinian.
Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, NH, for a copy of Tadem: My Father’s Village, Extinguished during the 1915 Armenian Genocide by Robert Aram Kaloosdian (Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2015), 336pp., in English. Tadem was an Armenian village in the region of Kharpert and the book is told through the eyes of Boghos Kaloosdian, Robert Kaloosdian’s father.
Rubina Sevadjian, Norfolk, United Kingdom, for a copy of her new book In the Shadow of the Sultan (Yerani Publishing, 2015), 193pp., in English. The novel is the story of a boy in his early teens who leaves his home and travels 200 miles to his grandmother’s town. The story is set during the period of the Hamidian massacres of 1896.
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, for a copy of Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide (Stanford University Press, 2015) 191pp., by Karnig Panian, translated from the Armenian by Simon Beugekian. In 1915 five-year old Karnig Panian was living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later he was found in an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon.