Let Them Not Return

David Gaunt is Professor of History at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, and a member of the European Academy. Naures Atto is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in World Christianities and their Diaspora in the European Context and Principal Investigator in the Aramaic Online Project at the University of Cambridge. Soner O. Barthoma is an independent researcher in the field of Political Science and co-coordinator of the Erasmus+ Aramaic Online Project at Freie Universität Berlin.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Contextualizing the Sayfo in the First World WarDavid Gaunt, Naures Atto and Soner O. BarthomaChapter 1. How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide?Ugur Umit UngorChapter 2. Sayfo Genocide: The Culmination of an Anatolian Culture of ViolenceDavid GauntChapter 3. The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth CenturyFlorence Hellot-BellierChapter 4. Mor Dionysios 'Abd an-Nur Aslan: Church Leader during a GenocideJan J. van GinkelChapter 5. Syriac Orthodox Leadership in the Post-Genocide Period (1918-26) and the Removal of the Patriarchate from TurkeyNaures Atto and Soner O. BarthomaChapter 6. Sayfo, Firman, Qafle: The First World War from the Perspective of Syriac ChristiansShabo TalayChapter 7. A Historical Note of October 1915 Written in Dayro D-Zafaran (Deyrulzafaran)Sebastian BrockChapter 8. Interpretation of the 'Sayfo' in Gallo Shabo's PoemSimon BirolChapter 9. The Psychological Legacy of the Sayfo: An Inter-generational Transmission of Fear and DistrustÖnver A. CetrezChapter 10. Sayfo and Denialism: A New Field of Activity for Agents of the Turkish RepublicRacho DonefChapter 11. Turkey's Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian GenocideAbdulmesih BarAbrahamChapter 12. Who Killed Whom? A Comparison of Political Discussions in France and Sweden about the Genocide of 1915Christophe PrematIndex

“With a list of top-notch contributors, this is an excellent addition to what little is currently available on this under-researched genocide. The organization of the contributions and the volume’s breadth of scope are particularly impressive.” Mark Levene, University of Southampton