In the coming days, Armenians around the world will come together to acknowledge what I have come to call “The Slaughter You Know Next to Nothing About.” April 24 marks the 98th anniversary of the ...
“The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,” by Franz Werfel; translated by Geoffrey Dunlop (1934) and James Reidel (2012). Godine, 936 pp. $22.95. Although 2015 will be the 100th anniversary of the Armenian ...
The tales of horror trickled in to the villages of Musa Dagh, or Mount Moses, in the spring and summer of 1915 from army deserters, traveling merchants, and a terrified Protestant priest. On April ...
HIGH up on the slopes of Musa Dagh, the Mountain of Moses, which towers on the shore of the Mediterranean in Syria a few miles from Antioch and Aleppo, some five thousand Armenian villagers, men, ...
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, ARMENPRESS. Ilze Paegle-Mkrtčjana, literary translator, wife of the Ambassador of Armenia to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia Tigran Mkrtchyan, has translated the novel of Franz Werfel ...
THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH—Franz Werfel—Viking ($3). To the ordinary U. S. reader, “Armenian” suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word ...
In 1933 Franz Werfel's epic novel "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was published to huge acclaim. Werfel was then at the height of his powers, an internationally known author. He told the story of ...
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS:“40 Days of Musa Dagh” performance will be presented October 23 in Gabriel Sundukyan State Academic Theatre staged on the basis of Franz Werfel’s “40 Days of Musa Dagh” ...
In 1933 Franz Werfel's epic novel "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was published to huge acclaim. The story of a guerilla army of Armenian villagers holding out against overwhelming Turkish forces on the ...