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Nancy Kricorian
Nancy Jean Kricorian (born September 19, 1960) is an American author of the novels ''Zabelle'' (1997) and ''Dreams of Bread and Fire'' (2003). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel ''All the Light There Was'' in March 2013. Personal life and career Kricorian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Irene (Gelinas), a child care provider, and Edward L. Kricorian, a meatcutter. She is of Armenian descent on the paternal side and French-Canadian descent on the maternal side. Her grandmother's family was almost annihilated during the Armenian genocide with only her grandmother and a younger brother surviving. Kricorian stated in an interview that her non-confomity started during her childhood as she recalled: "One time I was having a fight with my father and he said, 'Now you don't talk to me like that'. And I responded 'I'm going to talk and I'm going to talk and you can't stop me'. That is a kind of resistance, they are telling me to shut up, lie down, go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jewish Voice For Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP; קול יהודי לשלום ''Kol Yehudi la-Shalom'') is a left-wing Jewish activist organization in the United States that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. Founding, staff, and advisory board JVP was formed in September 1996. Stefanie Fox is the executive director; as of 2016, there were 27 other staff members. Members of the advisory board include Tony Kushner, Sarah Schulman, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Wallace Shawn. Positions JVP opposes the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and criticizes what it describes as the "severe human-rights violations that Israel engages in every day." It "endorses neither a one-state solution to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, nor a two-state solution". JVP supports the Palestinian right of return while opposing the Law of Return and the Birthright Israel movement. The organization also supports the Boycotts of Israel, boyco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsène Tchakarian
Arsène Tchakarian (21 December 1916 – 4 August 2018) was a Armenians in France, French-Armenian historian, former tailor and member of the French resistance. He was a member of the Manouchian Group of the FTP-MOI, a wing of the larger Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) composed of fighters of foreign immigrant origin. Tchakarian was the last surviving member of the Manouchian Group (''Groupe Manouchian''), a Paris-based resistance cell led by Missak Manouchian. Biography Tchakarian was born to an Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, ethnic Armenian family in Sapanca, the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) on 21 December 1916. The family fled to Bulgaria to escape the Armenian genocide during World War I. Tchakarian arrived in France in 1930 with his family and settled permanently in the country. He worked as a tailor. In 1937, Tchakarian was conscripted into the French Army, where he served until 1940. He was discharged from the Army in 1940 following the Battle of France, defeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belleville, Paris
Belleville () is a neighbourhood of Paris, France, parts of which lie in four different arrondissements. The major portion of Belleville straddles the borderline between the 20th arrondissement and the 19th along its main street, the ''Rue de Belleville''. The remainder lies in the 10th and 11th arrondissements. It was once the independent commune (municipality) of Belleville which was annexed by the City of Paris in 1860 and divided between two arrondissements. Geographically, the neighborhood is situated on and around a hill which vies with Montmartre as the highest in Paris. The name Belleville literally means "beautiful town". History Historically, Belleville was a working-class neighborhood. People living in the independent village of Belleville played a large part in establishing the Second French Republic through their actions during the Revolution of 1848. In 1871, residents of the incorporated neighborhood of Belleville were some of the strongest supporters of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Affiche Rouge
The ''Affiche Rouge'' (Red Poster) is a notorious propaganda poster, distributed by Vichy France and German authorities in the spring of 1944 in occupied Paris, to discredit 23 immigrant French Resistance fighters, members of the Manouchian Group. The term Affiche Rouge also refers more broadly to the circumstances surrounding the poster's creation and distribution, the capture, trial and execution of these members of the Manouchian Group. Background In mid-November 1943, the French police arrested 23 members of the Communist Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI), who were part of the French Resistance. They were called the "Manouchian Group" after the commander, Missak Manouchian. The group was part of a network of about 100 fighters, who committed nearly all acts of armed resistance in the Paris metropolitan region between March and November 1943. Its membership included men of different backgrounds. 22 of them were Poles, five Italians, thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FTP-MOI
The Francs-tireurs et partisans – main-d'œuvre immigrée (FTP-MOI) were a sub-group of the ''Francs-tireurs et partisans'' (FTP) organization, a component of the French Resistance. A wing composed mostly of foreigners, the MOI maintained an armed force to oppose the German occupation of France during World War II. The Main-d'œuvre immigrée was the "Immigrant Movement" of the FTP. The last surviving member of the FTP-MOI's Manouchian Group, resistance fighter Arsène Tchakarian, died in August 2018. History The FTP-MOI groups were organized in the Paris region in 1941, at the same time as the ''Francs-tireurs et partisans''. Their ranks were filled with foreign communists living in France who were not part of the French Communist Party. Although integrated with the ''FTP'', these groups depended directly on Jacques Duclos, who passed on orders from the Communist International (Comintern). The national manager of the MOI was Adam Rayski, who recommended members for the FTP- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missak Manouchian
Missak Manouchian (Western hy, Միսաք Մանուշեան; , 1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist. An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925. He was active in communist Armenian literary circles. During World War II, he became the military commissioner of FTP-MOI, a group consisting of European immigrants, including many Jews, in the Paris region which carried out assassinations and bombings of Nazi targets. According to one author, the Manouchian group was the most active French Resistance group. Manouchian and many of his comrades were arrested in November 1943 and executed by the Nazis in Fort Mont-Valérien on 21 February 1944. He is considered a hero of the French Resistance. Early life Manouchian was born on 1 September 1906 in Adıyaman, in Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire into an Armenian peasant family. His parents were killed during the Armenian genocide of 1915, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des Terroristes à La Retraite
Des terroristes à la retraite (Terrorists in Retirement) is a 1985 French documentary about the FTP-MOI written and directed by Mosco Boucault. Background Boucault was born as Moshe Levy into a Jewish family in Bulgaria in 1951. In 1956 his family made the ''Aliyah'' (Hebrew for "ascent") by immigrating to Israel. Following the death of his father in 1957, his mother moved the family to France, where he grew up and changed his name to the more French-sounding Mosco Boucault. As a teenager, he felt a profound identity crisis feeling not quite entirely either French or Jewish, and became obsessed with the story of the FTP-MOI resistance group as a way to bridge his two identities. The PCF (''Parti communiste français''-French Communist Party) had maintained a trade union for immigrants called the MOI (''Main-d'œuvre immigrée''). In April 1942, a resistance group called the FTP-MOI (''Francs-tireurs et partisans – main-d'œuvre immigrée'') was founded, led by the Romanian Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Secret Army For The Liberation Of Armenia
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was a militant organization active between 1975 and the 1990s whose stated goal was "to compel the Turkish Government to acknowledge publicly its responsibility for the Armenian genocide in 1915, pay reparations, and cede territory for an Armenian homeland." ASALA itself and other sources described it as a guerilla and armed organization. Some sources, including United States Department of State,United States Department of StatePatterns of Global Terrorism Report: 1989, p 57 as well as the Turkish Department of Culture and Azerbaijani Foreign ministry listed it as a terrorist organization. The principal goal of ASALA was to establish a United Armenia that would include the formerly Armenian-inhabited six vilayets of the Ottoman Empire (Western Armenia) and Soviet Armenia.Terrorist Group Profiles. DIANE Publishing, 1989. p. 32 The group sought to claim the area (called ''Wilsonian Armenia'') that was promised to the Armen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Brahmin
The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional upper class. They are often associated with Harvard University; Anglicanism; and traditional Anglo-American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). Etymology The doctor and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. coined the term "Brahmin Caste of New England" in an 1860 story in ''The Atlantic Monthly''. The term ''Brahmin'' refers to the priestly caste within the four castes in the caste system in India, Hindu caste system. By extension, it was applied in the United States to the old wealthy New England families of British Protestant origin that became influential in the development of American institutions and culture. The influence of the old American gentry has been reduced in modern times, but some vestiges remain, primarily in the institutions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Balakian
Peter Balakian, born June 13, 1951, is an American poet, prose writer, and scholar. He is the author of many books including the 2016 Pulitzer prize winning book of poems ''Ozone Journal'', the memoir ''Black Dog of Fate'', winner of the PEN/Albrand award in 1998 and '' The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response'', winner of the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and a ''New York Times'' best seller (October 2003). Both prose books were ''New York Times'' Notable Books. Since 1980 he has taught at Colgate University where he is the Donald M and Constance H Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the department of English and Director of Creative Writing. Early life Peter Balakian, son of physician and sports medicine inventor Gerard Balakian and Arax Aroosian Balakian was born in Teaneck New Jersey and grew up there and in Tenafly, New Jersey. He attended Tenafly public schools, graduated from Englewood School For Boys (now Dwight Englewood School). He earned a B.A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
