Sayfo in Iwardo: A Story of Leadership, Resistance and Victory in Times of Genocide

AUTHOR NAME 1
Gabriel Grigo
AUTHOR NAME ORIGINAL LANGUAGE 1


PUBLICATION YEAR
2022

EXTRA INFO
Though this was published by the church-supported and monastery-housed press Bar `Ebroyo Verlag, the publication is not officially connected to the Syriac Orthodox Church.

LANGUAGE 1
English
LANGUAGE 2
German
LANGUAGE 3
Dutch/Flemish
LANGUAGE 4
Turkish

GENRE 1
History

DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATION
Pictures of the story teller, his grandfather, of the village and Tur Abdin

NR OF PAGES
245

KEYWORDS
sayfo

CITATION
Gabriel Grigo. Sayfo in Iwardo: A Story of Leadership, Resistance and Victory in Times of Genocide. Bar `Ebroyo Verlag, 2022.

IS A TRANSLATION
Yes

FORM OF PUBLICATION 1
Paperback with ISBN

ISBN NUMBER
978-90-5047-060-5

PUBLISHED BY
Bar `Ebroyo Verlag

CHURCH 1
Syriac Orthodox Church

CONTENT DESCRIPTION
The story of the defense of the village Iwardo in Tur Abdin (Turkey), via one of its leaders, Gello Grigo, told by his son Isa Grigo to their (grand)son in the Netherlands.

GENERAL COMMENTS
This is the story of the village of Iwardo during the Sayfo of 1915, through the eyes of a leader of the village, as told to his son who was born after the sayo (in 1935) - told and recorded by their (grand)son in the Netherlands. Via a QR-code the actual recording on youtube can be accessed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwCLMXjtpm0). Note that the recording was done in Surayt (the vernacular Aramaic of the region), but that the book presents the story in four other languages: English, Dutch, German and Turkish. Note further that although Bar `Ebroyo Verlag (Glane, Netherlands) is notes as publisher, it is not stated that the book is published in this location.