Making space and community through memory:
This article aims to discuss the making of space and community in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem, by introducing a collection of photographs from the AGBU Nubar Library in Paris, which were gathered and archived in the 1920s and 1930s. Taking into consideration the multi-layered history of the re...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Bibliothèque Nubar de l'UGAB
2017-09-01
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| Series: | Études Arméniennes Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/eac/1129 |
| Summary: | This article aims to discuss the making of space and community in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem, by introducing a collection of photographs from the AGBU Nubar Library in Paris, which were gathered and archived in the 1920s and 1930s. Taking into consideration the multi-layered history of the refugees and orphans who inhabited this place in the post-WWI years and the older presence of Armenian communities and religious institutions in Palestine, it analyses the ways memories act on the making of an Armenian communal space in Jerusalem. A crucial issue raised in this article regards the utilisation historians can make of such a photographic archive from the perspective of constructing a social history of twentieth-century Armenian Jerusalem. More than other available sources, the visual archive brings into partial view the experiences and lives of those who were forgotten or ignored in the post-genocide period, showing how such memories contribute to the melting and merging of segmented pasts within the space of community. |
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| ISSN: | 2269-5281 2425-1682 |