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Hawks' Herald -- December 1, 2011, Roger Williams University
Hawks' Herald -- December 1, 2011, Roger Williams University
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Hawks' Herald -- November 17, 2011, Roger Williams University
Hawks' Herald -- November 17, 2011, Roger Williams University
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Hawks' Herald -- September 15, 2011, Roger Williams University
Hawks' Herald -- September 15, 2011, Roger Williams University
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Hawks' Herald -- April 7, 2011, Roger Williams University
Hawks' Herald -- April 7, 2011, Roger Williams University
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Harput, Turkey To Massachusetts: Immigration Of Jacobite Christians, Sargon Donabed, Shamiran Mako
Harput, Turkey To Massachusetts: Immigration Of Jacobite Christians, Sargon Donabed, Shamiran Mako
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This essay falls into the category of rendering visible a community, the Jacobite Assyrians of Massachusetts, who have remained virtually unknown in the larger context of Middle Eastern Diaspora studies and American ethnic and cultural history. This brief study of the immigration of the Jacobite Christians originally from Harput, Turkey who settled in New England, shows a variety of distinct method(s) of identity preservation and transmission to subsequent generations, expecially in regard to personal and group identity structures. These people, sometimes referred to as “Jacobite Syrians” by early Western travelers and missionaries, identified themselves as the “sons of Asshur” in …