Sayfo - An Account of the Assyrian Genocide
Sayfo - An Account of the Assyrian Genocide
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474447515
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 28/11/2022
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
This text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today’s Turkish state). The perspective is one that is little known and less discussed. Translated and annotated by a master of Syriac with an in-depth knowledge of modern Assyrian history, this text creates a unique opportunity for new and progressive scholarship. The Assyrian genocide is one of the forgotten atrocities of the 20th century. The physical destruction was but one element; it also caused demographic shifts, loss of territory, generational trauma and linguicide, along with cultural genocide/ethnocide and identity erosion.
Preface
About the Diary and Author
Background of the Region
Diary of a Seminarian
From the Author
The Emergence and Spread of Christianity
Difficult times: Persecution Suffered by Christianity in Various Periods of History
Persecution in the Most Recent Times – the end of the 19th Century
The year 1914 – The beginning of the World War I
My diary
Eyewitness reports: The story of a road worker named Abed Mshiho, who saw the most
The Christians of the city of Amida and its subordinate villages – executions and the exodus of the year 1915
Extermination of Christians in the villages of the district of Mardin in the year 1914
The Sinjar Mountains suffer for Christians
The fate of Christian inhabitants of other localities
Positive and negative attitudes of some participants of the exterminations
Bibliography
Annexes 1–3
