The Banality of Indifference:
Zionism and the Armenian Genocide

by Yair Auron (author)

Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 at 04:09 PM CT

BOOK DETAILS

Publisher: Transaction Publishers; illustrated edition edition (December 5, 2001)
Paperback: 405 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765808811
ISBN-13: 978-0765808813
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The genocide of Armenians by Turks during the World War I was a precursor of the genocidal acts that marked the 20th century. The parallels between the Jewish and Armenian situations and the reactions of the Jewish community in Palestine (the Yishuv) to the Armenian genocide are explored here.

FROM THE BOOK

Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Introduction:
Conflicting Interpretations 5

1. The Armenians--The Struggle for Survival 33
2. Palestine During the First World War 59
3. The Reactors 101
4. The Nili Group and the Armenians 159
5. A Jewish-Arab-Armenian Alliance 215
6. Silent Muses--The Armenian Massacre as Seen in the Literature of the Jewish Yishuv in Eretz Yisrael 271
7. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh: Symbol and Parable 293
8. The Indifferent 313
9. The Attitudes Towards the Armenian Genocide after the Establishment of the State of Israel--A Brief Overview 351
10. Conclusion 369
Appendix A 375
Appendix B 389
Index 391

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