THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
42 Friday, December 19, 1980
Jerusalem Community a Focus ofArmenian Diaspora
By MALKAH RAYMIST
World Zionist Press Service
JERUSALEM — The
Armenian community in Is-
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about 4,000, organized and
highly developed. Half live
in Jerusalem, mainly in the
Old City, while the rest live
in Haifa, Jaffa, Ramleh, and
in some farming villages in
Galilee.
Armenia was once 'a very
large west-Asian realm
bordering on Turkey, Syria,
Iraq, Iran and Russia; this
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geographical position gave
the country enormous
strategic value in the eyes of
the adjacent states. A rich
country, fertile in parts,
barren in others, it was al-
ways the object of her
neighbors' greedy territo-
rial ambitions.
Its population is Cauca-
sian and its language be-
longs to the Indo-European
group of languages.
Ancient Greek and Per-
sian sources mention "Ar-
mina" as early as 600 BCE
and it was Christianized in
the year 303 by St. Gregory.
Today its church is headed
by a patriarchate estab-
lished in 1311, and has two
patriarchs, one in Armenia
and one in Jerusalem.
The majority of Arme-
nians in Israel are mer-
chants, traders and shop-
keepers but there are many
teachers and some physi-
cians, pharmacists and
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clergymen. They are also
excellent craftsmen, tailors,
shoemakers, gold-and-
silversmiths and jewelers.
Most are comfortably off,
though few rich Armenians
live in Israel.
Armenian communities
throughout the world main-
tain close contact with each
other, particularly with
those of Israel.
The Jerusalem Armenian
community is organized on
lines of almost medieval
self-sufficiency, not unlike
feudal castles. This is a
relic from Turkish- times,
dictated by the necessity of
protection against attacks
and pogroms. Even today,
visiting the Armenian Pat-
riarchate is like entering an
ancient stronghold, practi-
cally self-contained. It is an
enormous walled-in com-
plex, one of the very few
with greenery and trees in
the barren stone of the Old
City.
Some Armenians live
outside the Patriarchate in
a different old city quarter.
One of them told me that for
centuries they used an un-
derground passage leading
, to the Patriarchate, so that
they might reach it in case
of anti-Christian riots. That
t passage was also connected
with the Jewish Quarter.
The Patriarchate consists
of living quarters for
laymen, a theological semi-
nary and two libraries —
one general, the other for
ancient manuscripts. There
is a private secondary
school with its own cur-
riculum, where instruction
is in Armenian, with
Arabic, English and He-
brew taught. A clinic serves
the compound and a print-
ing press turns out high-
quality work, accepting or-
ders in several languages.
Turkish pogroms against
the Armenians are: 1895 —
300,000;_ 1909 — 30,000;
1915 — 1,500,000; 1922 —
40,000.
On April 24, Armenian
Holocaust Memorial Day, a
procession leaves the Pat-
riarchate for the St.
Saviour's Convent, where a
memorial service is held. A
Holocaust Memorial is to be
built near the Armenian
Cemetery, with a church
and a small museum show-
ing the history of the mas-
sacres through photographs
and other exhibits. It is ex-
pected to be completed by
1982.
The solidarity of the dis-
persed Armenian people, its
sense of history and of com-
mon fate and its refusal to
forget past persecution —
all these invite comparison
with the Jewish people.
Together with the Greek
Orthodox and Catholics,
Armenians are co-owners of
the Holy Sepulchre with
equal rights and duties. The
same applies to the Church
of Nativity in Bethlehem.
A permanent exhibition
was recently opened in the
Patriarchate's compound in
an old 44-room building re-
stored with the help of dona-
tions froin Armenians
abroad. It consists mainly of
pictures, old maps, faded
icons, brocades, em-
broideries and religious ob-
jects.
These treasures, a small
part of which were shown at
an exhibition in 1969, are
kept in the vast under-
ground crypts of the Arme-
nian Patriarchate, not used
or shown. They were not
even mentioned in Ottoman
times for fear of provoking
attack or plunder.
The Armenians suffered
at the hands of Turks. The
numbers of the victims of
Second Sentence
TEL AVIV — Former Re-
hovot Mayor Shmuel Re-
chtman, currently serving a
-five-year prison term for
bribery, was sentenced to an
additional nine months in
jail after he admitted guilt
to a second bribery charge.
Biography Slated
for Wallenberg
LONDON (JTA) —
Maurice Samuelson, Lon-
don correspondent of the
Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, is preparing a biog-
raphy of Raoul Wallenberg,
the Swedish diplomat Who
saved thousands of Jews in
wartime Hungary before
being arrested by the Rus-
sians.
He is anxious to hear from
people who knew Wallen-
berg either before or during
the war. They asked to write
to him at 21 Greenfield
Gardens, London NW2,
England.
The author, a staff writer
on the Financial Times, is a
close friend of Wallenberg's
immediate family and his
articles over the past four
years helped to trigger the
present wave of interna-
tional interest in Wallen-
berg.
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