Book review by Lucine Kasbarian New Jersey, 1 June 2015
Seven years after starting his research about one of the most dramatic episodes of 20 th century Armenian history, actor, playwright, and novelist Eric Bogosian has written Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the ArmenianGenocide (Little, Brown & Co.; April 21, 2015).
Much was expected of this widely publicized book whose author is fairly well-known to the American public. Many Armenians hoped that the work would bring into focus the fact that a group of Armenian patriots executed Turkish leaders who had escaped court-ordered death sentences for planning and carrying out the Armenian Genocide.
However, while serious students of the Armenian Genocide may be merely disappointed in this book, others could be misled. ....Read more >>
The Warsaw Ghetto was an urban prison zone in the middle of German-occupied Warsaw. Some 400,000 Jews were trapped in 1.3 square miles. By 1942 83,000 had died of disease and starvation. Arguably the most popular novel in the Ghetto was Franz Werfel’s “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh” about the systematic expulsion and slaying of 1.5 million Armenians. The courageous struggle of the Armenians inspired the Jews not only in the Ghetto but also in British Mandate Palestine. ” Read More >>>
|
No comments:
Post a Comment