Zabel Isaiah

Zabel Isaiah (1915)

Zabel Isaiah ( Armenian Զապէլ Եսայեան , born February 4, 1878 in Üsküdar , Istanbul , Ottoman Empire , † 1943 in Siberia , Soviet Union ) was an Armenian novelist, poet and translator. She was a contemporary witness of the Armenian genocide in Turkey and was a victim of the Stalinist purges in Russia.

Life

Isaiah was born on the night of February 4, 1878 as Zabel Hovhannessian , daughter of Mgrditsch Hovhannessian in the Silihdar district of Üsküdar during the Russo-Ottoman War . The house where she was born was a reddish, two-story wooden building. She attended the local Surp Haç Ermeni Lisesi . She studied literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne . After being inspired by the French romantic movement and the Armenian literary scene , she started writing. Her first prose poem ( "Night Song") appeared in the magazine Tsaghik (Flower) in 1895 . She has published short stories, literary essays, articles and translations (in both French and Armenian) in magazines such as the Mercure de France , Massis , Anahit and Arevelian Mamoul (Eastern Press).

After the Young Turkish Revolution in 1908, Isaiah returned to Istanbul. In 1909 she went to Cilicia and published a series of articles publicizing the Adana massacre of the Armenian minority. The fate of the Armenians in Cilicia is also the subject of her book Averagneru Mech (Unter Ruins; Istanbul 1911), the novel The Curse (1911) and the short stories "Safieh" (1911) and "The New Bridge" (1911).

In 1918 she worked in the Middle East , where she organized the resettlement of the surviving refugees and orphans. The novels Verchin Pajagi and Hokis Aksoryal also belong to this period , where she describes the many injustices that she had to experience. In the novel Retreating Forces (1923) she describes the social and political conditions of her time. She visited Armenia in 1926 and shortly afterwards published her impressions in Prometheus Unchained ( Marseille 1928). In 1933 she settled in Soviet Armenia and in 1934 took part in the first congress of the Writers' Union of the USSR in Moscow . A novella and her first autobiographical book Silihdari Bardeznere (The Gardens of Silihdar; Yerevan 1935) also belong to this period . She started teaching French and Armenian literature at the Yerevan State University .

She was accused of " nationalism " during the Great Purge . She was arrested in 1937 and killed in Siberia under unknown circumstances .

Web links

Commons : Zabel Jesajan - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Ara Baliozian : The Gardens of Silihdar and Other Writings . 1st edition. Ashot Press, New York, New York, ISBN 0-935102-07-8 , pp. 53 .
↑ Ara Baliozian: The Gardens of Silihdar and Other Writings . 1st edition. Ashot Press, New York, New York, ISBN 0-935102-07-8 , pp. 54 .
↑ Kevork Bardakjian: A reference guide to modern Armenian literature, 1500-1920: with an introductory history . Wayne State University Press, 2000, pp. 714 .

personal data
SURNAME	Isaiah, Zabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Yesayan, Zabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Armenian writer and genocide survivor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yusgyutar , Constantinople , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	1943
Place of death	Siberia , Soviet Union

[1] Ara Baliozian : The Gardens of Silihdar and Other Writings . 1st edition. Ashot Press, New York, New York, ISBN 0-935102-07-8 , pp. 53 .

[2] Ara Baliozian: The Gardens of Silihdar and Other Writings . 1st edition. Ashot Press, New York, New York, ISBN 0-935102-07-8 , pp. 54 .

[3] Kevork Bardakjian: A reference guide to modern Armenian literature, 1500-1920: with an introductory history . Wayne State University Press, 2000, pp. 714 .