Pro Armenia: Jewish Responses to the Armenian Genocide, Vartkes Yeghiayan (softcover)

This collection of impassioned writings on the Armenian Genocide by Jewish diplomats, intelligence operatives, and members of the emerging human rights movement sheds new light on the events. Their strong voices demonstrate that the plight of Armenians was not confined to a mere handful of diplomats but was made up of people from all walks of life.

In part one, diplomats Henry Morgenthau, Lewis Einstein and Andre Mandelstam raise their voices to protest against the genocide in works that exemplify the concern and worldwide mood and feeling.

In part two, Attorney Vartkes Yeghiayan introduces the NILI spy group and reveals the extraordinary efforts of a small band of guerillas that paved the way for British General Allenby to drive the Germans and Ottomans out of the Middle East. Eyewitness accounts by NILI members Aaron Aaronsohn, his brother Alex, their sister Sarah, and colleague Eitan Belkin present their unique perspectives on how the genocide played out in the deserts of Syria and the eastern Mediterranean.

In part three, jurist Raphael Lemkin chronicles the history of massacres against Armenians, which later compelled him to coin the word “genocide.”

Part four is an essay by British-Armenian operative James Arootun Malcolm, who divulges his hitherto unknown role behind the Balfour Declaration.