Book on Armenian genocide by Turks concerns Kurds
Kurdish Media
June 6 2004
London (KurdishMedia.com) 06 June 2004:
BooK: THEY CALLED ME MUSTAFA: MEMOIR OF AN IMMIGRANT by Khachadoor
(Archie) Pilibosian, edited and coathored by Helene Pilibosian, is the
story of Khachadoor, a boy caught in the Armenian Genocide, kidnapped
by a Kurd and years later escapes slavery to emigrate to America.
Detailed are his birthplace of Ichmeh in Armenia and Armenian immigrant
life in Watertown, Mass., including his employment at the first
Star Market store in Watertown Square and his own store, Huron Spa
in Cambridge. His acquaintance with artist Arshile Gorky and Yenovk
Der Hagopian, singer of Armenian troubadour songs, is recorded.
Added for a second edition, Part II includes English translations
of his poems and stories presented for their authenticity of fact
and emotion. They were translated by Hagop Sarkissian with Helene
Pilibosian, who also wrote Notes on Part II, analyzing the reasons for
writing about genocide. With nostalgic photographs. ISBN 1-929966-04-0,
187 pages, paper, $16 (add $2 shipping).
This book has been licensed for the award-winning academic database
North American Immigrant Diaries, Letters and Oral Histories published
by Alexander Street Press.
MASSACHUSETTS STATE REPRESENTATIVE Warren Tolman read the Author’s
Preface at the April 24, 1992, Commemoration at the State House in
Boston. He added, “It is a very, very powerful book.”
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FORMER SENIOR LECTURER Charles T. Ajamian
wrote in The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, “It is a compelling story. It
affords new and corroborating insights into the Genocide.’
MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: “Highly recommended.”
Available at Ohan Press, 171 Maplewood St., Watertown, MA 02472-1324
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