Armenian PostcardsIn Pictures: Armenian Postcards

ARMENIAN POSTCARDSIN PICTURES: ARMENIAN POSTCARDS

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18 may, 2010 – 12:38 GMT

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There’s an exhibition of Armenian postcards, at the School of Oriental
and African Studies in London.

They are 100 years old and give a fascinating portrayal of Armenian
life in Turkey at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth
century.

Here is a culture, thriving in the final years of the Ottoman Empire,
all but disappeared now, re-discovered in glorious detail.

One of the reasons for the huge variety of postcards is that the
postcard business was an Armenian trade.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS