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Holocaust Scholars to Honor Prof. Vahakn Dadrian. His Book on History of the
Armenian Genocide is Breaking Records in Sales
Philadelphia.- The participants of the Annual Scholars’ Conference on the
Holocaust and the Churches will honor Prof. Dadrian during the scholars’
annual convention that will take place in Philadelphia, March 5-8, 2005. The
ceremony will be carried out during the Conference Banquet on Monday, March
7, 6:30-8:15 p.m. at the Hilton Hotel. Under the theme, “Remembrance of the
Armenian Genocide 90 Years Later,” Dr. Dadrian will be celebrated “for his
lifetime of distinguished work” dealing with studies on genocide in general
and Armenian Genocide in particular. Renowned author and poet Peter
Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at
Colgate University and a recent Guggenheim Fellow, will present Dadrian
while outlining his accomplishments. The banquet ceremony will be chaired by
Dr. Gregory Dell’Omo, Vice President of Saint Joseph’s University. The
Annual Scholars Conference is a gathering for hundreds of Holocaust scholars
from all over the world, who explore the manifold aspects of the Holocaust
and its connections to Christianity and the Churches.
As an interesting historical note, it was at this conference in 2000, while
celebrating their 30th anniversary, that the organizers invited Prof.
Dadrian to deliver one of the three keynote speeches. The other keynote
speakers were Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and distinguished Holocaust scholar
Yehuda Bauer from Hebrew University and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. On that
occasion, 126 of the conference participants, practically all of them
Holocaust scholars, signed a now famous proclamation. That proclamation
declared that “The Armenian Genocide is an incontestable historical fact”
and that “Turkey for her own sake should come to terms with it.” It further
encouraged Western Democracies “to urge the Government and Parliament of
Turkey to finally come to terms with a dark chapter of Ottoman-Turkish
history and to recognize the Armenian Genocide. This would provide an
invaluable impetus to the process of the democratization of Turkey.” The
proclamation was published in the New York Times, the Jerusalem Post, and
several other periodicals.
Brisk Sales of the New Revised Edition of “History of the Armenian Genocide”
New York- Berghahn Books has announced that the new revised and expanded
version of Prof. Vahakn N. Dadrian’s massive volume, The History of the
Armenian Genocide, is now entering its third printing in paperback format.
The hardcover editions went through six printings from 1995 to 2000,
totaling over 6,000 copies, a remarkable achievement for a serious academic
work.
This ground-breaking book has been translated and published in French (two
editions), Greek, and Italian. There are plans to publish it in Russian and
in Hebrew, as well.
Prof. Vahakn Dadrian is Director of Genocide Research at Zoryan Institute.
The Zoryan Institute is the first non-profit, international center devoted
to the research and documentation of contemporary issues related to Armenian
social, political and cultural life. To this end, the Institute conducts
multidisciplinary research, publication, and educational programs dealing
with Armenia, the Armenian Genocide, and Diaspora, within a universal
context.