THE CONVERGENT ASPECTS OF THE ARMENIAN AND JEWISH CASES OF GENOCIDE. A REINTERPRETATION OF THE CONCEPT OF HOLOCAUST
Every victimized group feels itself and its experience to be unique. For both Armenians and Jews, the sense of uniqueness begins with the origins of their nationhood, which are largely religious in nature. Each people has tenaciously clung to its religion and nationhood in the face of centuries of b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1988
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1988, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-169 |
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| Summary: | Every victimized group feels itself and its experience to be unique. For both Armenians and Jews, the sense of uniqueness begins with the origins of their nationhood, which are largely religious in nature. Each people has tenaciously clung to its religion and nationhood in the face of centuries of being victimized minorities existing outside the ‘universe of obligation’ of the dominant group. Both peoples suffered a genocide whose perpetrators' intent was a ‘final solution’, and qualitatively, if not quantitatively, the two genocides are similar. Still, what is not necessarily objectively unique in each genocide is subjectively so in the eyes of the victims. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/3.2.151 |