In Echoes of Ararat, author Nick Liguori contends that oral traditions of the Flood - and the survival of the few inside the floating Ark - are even more prevalent than previously thought, and they powerfully confirm the truth of the Genesis account. This unprecedented work carefully documents hundreds of native traditions of the Flood - as well as the Tower of Babel and the Garden of Eden - from the tribes of North and South America. Learn what the Cherokee, Lakota, Iroquois, Cheyenne, Inuit, Inca, Aztec, Guarani, and countless other tribes claimed about the early history of the world. Liguori also shares many evidences for the historical reliability of Genesis, and shows that the Genesis Flood account is not dependent on the Epic of Gilgamesh or other Near-Eastern texts, as skeptics claim. Rather, its author Moses had access to ancient records passed down by the early Patriarchs, including Joseph, Jacob, Abraham, and even Noah himself.

As a new independent Republic of Armenia is established among the ruins of the Soviet Union, Armenians are rethinking their history—the processes by which they arrived at statehood in a small part of their historic homeland, and the definitions they might give to boundaries of their nation. Both a victim and a beneficiary of rival empires, Armenia experienced a complex evolution as a divided or an erased polity with a widespread diaspora. Ronald Grigor Suny traces the cultural and social transformations and interventions that created a new sense of Armenian nationality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Perceptions of antiquity and uniqueness combined in the popular imagination with the experiences of dispersion, genocide, and regeneration to forge an Armenian nation in Transcaucasia. Suny shows that while the limits of Armenia at times excluded the diaspora, now, at a time of state renewal, the boundaries have been expanded to include Armenians who live beyond the borders of the republic.

In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of kinship.

How has the distinctive Armenian-American community expressed its identity as an ethnic minority while 'assimilating' to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a sense of Armenian identity but specific ethnic-partisan leanings within the group's population. Against the backdrop of key geopolitical events from the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide to the creation of an independent and then Soviet Armenia, it explores the rivalry between two major Armenian political parties, the Tashnags and the Ramgavars, and the relationship that existed between partisan leaders and their broader constituency. Rather than treating the partisan conflict as simply an impediment to Armenian unity, Benjamin Alexander examines the functional if accidental role that it played in keeping certain community institutions alive. He further analyses the two camps as representing two conflicting visions of how to be an ethnic group, drawing a comparison between the sociology-of-religion models of comfort religion and challenge religion. A detailed political and social history, this book integrates the Armenian experience into the broader and more familiar narratives of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War in the USA.

Dr. Elliott was sent to Armenia and the Caucasus during World War I as part of the Near East Relief charitable efforts of the American Women's Hospitals organization. This is her account of her work in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus during her four years of service.

"Only a century and a half has passed since the first contacts between a handful of Jews and the frontier outpost that eventually grew into the city of Buffalo; yet their subsequent relationship exemplifies every significant facet of Jewish life in America. The story begins with the attempt by the colorful Moredcai M. Noah to found his Jewish asylum, Ararat, in western New York, and it concludes with a description of a populous, self-aware, unified community striking out for the suburbs. The authors, themselves citizens of Buffalo, have succeeded in making their story alive, vibrant, panoramic. Perhaps this is due to the grandstand seat from which they have witnessed the energy and vision that have characterized the ultimate development of the community. It is also likely that their success in bringing the Buffalo Jewish story so vividly to life is a direct result of their method. For these professors chose to describe the community by describing the men and women who created it, against the background of the national and international socio-religious forces that shaped its growth. Its Geist is evoked by introducing the reader to the inner qualities of the people who shaped it. This history of the Jews of Buffalo thus differs substantially from virtually all similar accounts of other American-Jewish communities. More than any of the others it is written as a synthesis: between the American environment and the world-wide Jewish heritage of the successive waves of immigrants, among the various institutions as step by step they combined to create a sense of community, and, above all, among the leaders and personalities whom the book describes in considerable detail. From Ararat to Suburbia is filled with interesting and sharply-drawn vignettes Each of these pen portraits, emerging out of the subject's origin and New World status, lays bare his hopes, his strivings and his manner of expressing them. In one sense, of course, this is a success story. American-Jewish history altogether, and especially the history of its medium-sized communities, records the rapid advances made by individual men and women who thereupon displayed remarkable community consciousness and a characteristically Jewish sense of common destiny. The Jews of both Buffalo and the United States have been portrayed as largely the subjects, rather than the objects, of modern historical forces. This volume stresses the serious social, religious and cultural problems that Jews have had to face on the Niagara Frontier. Our authors make these clear, and Buffalo's experience forms a prototype for Jewish communities elsewhere. Hence, the treatment in this volume transcends provincial narrowness. It is not just another account of another American-Jewish community. It is the epic of the Jew in American civilization." --