Benny Morris, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, has published books about the history of the Zionist–Arab conflict. He has also written about the conflict in the New York Review of Books, New York Times, New Republic, and The Guardian. Dror Ze’evi, Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, has published several books on Ottoman and Middle Eastern history.
A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events…A
richly textured and highly sensitive study…The authors document, in
painstaking detail and with constant reference to their key
arguments, the centrally planned murder and deportation of
Christians throughout Turkey.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Offers a subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span
of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed
torrents of suffering.
*New York Times Book Review*
Again and again, I was brought up short by the sheer, terrible,
shocking accounts of violence in Morris’s and Zeevi’s work… Is it
possible for a people to be so inured to cruelty that they changed,
that their acts of sadism could alter their humanity?
*The Independent*
Gut-wrenching…Morris and Ze’evi convey well the horror of the
killings.
*Foreign Affairs*
In well over six hundred pages the authors detail, town by town and
village by village, the atrocities that led to the elimination of
Christians from Turkey…A monumental achievement.
*Commonweal*
The mass killings of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christians in the
late Ottoman era and early 1920s have been the subject of several
excellent studies in recent years. The Israeli historians Morris
and Ze’evi add value by knitting together the three main episodes
of violent persecution in a comprehensive narrative.
*Financial Times*
Brilliantly researched and written…Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi
cast a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the
final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to
annihilate their Christian subjects. They emphasize that the three
waves of violence against the Christians living in Anatolia were
not spasmodic or distinct, but formed part of a larger and coherent
plan to destroy them utterly. Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons
from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to
extirpate Jews from the face of the Earth.
*The Spectator*
Important and ambitious…They break new ground in the attempt to tie
various massacres and atrocities at different times and places into
a seamless genocidal web extending on and off for thirty
years…Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi have done a great service to the
study of comparative genocide.
*Bustan*
A must read for anyone interested in the tragic events and history
which inevitably shaped the modern world.
*National Herald*
Remarkable…A warning from history, perhaps, that this incisive work
transmits to us in these dark days of political turmoil.
*Jewish Chronicle*
An exhaustive account of Turkish policies towards Christians from
the waning years of the Ottoman Caliphate through the first decade
of Atatürk’s rule.
*National Interest*
Forces me to re-examine my understanding of the Armenian
Genocide…It will stand in both the historical records of nations
and in the field of Genocide studies as a monumental marker of
excellence.
*Massis Post*
The book’s strength lies in the fact that it has a broader
perspective than many other books on the subject… Morris and Ze’evi
have given us an outstanding representation of the fate of the
Christian minorities during this crucial thirty-year period.
*Svenska Dagbladet*
The evidence cited in this well-researched book is overwhelming…By
looking at previously isolated events in a broader view, Morris and
Ze’evi open new horizons on these events. What they reveal has
global implications.
*Middle East Quarterly*
The proof in this well-researched book is overwhelming…Hugely
important.
*Neue Politische Literatur*
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