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A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition
History
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On Old Testament Violence and Orthodox Interpretation of Scripture
On the Intrinsic Value of a Human Being
On Science, Galileo and Church Persecution
On the Roman Catholic Church’s Inquisition and the Crusades
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Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Garin K. Hovannisian, a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A writer living in Los Angeles and Yerevan, Armenia, he has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and Frontpage Magazine. He is the author of the new investigative memoir, Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream [1] (HarperCollins), just released on September 21.
FP: Garin K. Hovannisian, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
I would like to talk to you today about your new book.
Let’s begin with what inspired you to write it.
Hovannisian: I don’t think I was so much inspired as I was haunted — possessed, in a way, by this dark and complex and deeply dramatic story of my family, which contains within it the complete history of Armenia, from the Genocide of 1915 to the present day. For me, writing Family of Shadows was an act not of inspiration but of liberation.
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Fort Ross was an important center in bringing Orthodoxy to America.
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New York readers may be interested in this exhibit at the Museum of Biblical Art near Columbus and Broadway.
“The Passion of Christ”: none of the show’s works is attributed to a known artist, adding to the sense of a culture animated by genuine religious feeling.
In 1051 a Greek Orthodox monk named Anthony retreated to a cave overlooking the Dnieper River in Kiev. Disciples came, buildings were constructed, and, by the 17th and 18th centuries, the Monastery of the Caves embraced a flourishing metropolitan sprawl of 3 Ukrainian cities, 7 towns, 120 villages and more than half a million peasants.
Today, in addition to a multi-tiered, gold-domed bell tower soaring more than 300 feet, its most remarkable feature is a system of subterranean caves, including living quarters and chapels, and a labyrinth extending more than 650 yards into the Berestov Mount.
Read the rest of the article on the New York Times website.
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The site is written in Russian, but the pictures are nevertheless compelling. Hopefully they will provide an English version eventually.
The Russian human rights center Memorial has launched an online “museum” on the history of the Soviet labor and prison camps known as the gulag, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Memorial workers have spent six years going through Russian and international archives for photographs and documents that explain the history of the gulag and what life in the camps was like. The website currently consists of digitized documents from more than 100 museums.
Project worker Tatyana Pritikina warned that as small museums lose their funding and disappear, the “collective memory of history also disappears.” She said it is impossible to be indifferent to history when looking at the online exhibition. www.gulagmuseum.org “In the exhibition you see everything — from the death certificate of a two-month-old baby who died in prison to an aluminum spoon used during a church service in one of the labor camps,” Pritikina said.
All entries in the museum are annotated with facts and dates. The virtual museum also lists the locations of mass executions and mass graves.
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