The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem Archives on the Armenian Question and the Genocide: Annotated Detailed Summary of Documents, Vol. I, prepared by Lusine Sahakyan, Ani Voskanyan, and Ani Sahakyan, is a newly released book by Lusakn Publishers, Yerevan, with the endorsement of Yerevan State University, the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and the Armenian Studies Program at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN).
This volume provides for the first time a detailed list of the 634 documents (written in Armenian, Ottoman, French, English, German, and Russian) contained in Box 1 of the Patriarchate’s “Archives of the Armenian Question and Armenian Genocide,” with extensive description and annotations. The “Archives” was founded by the Information Bureau affiliated with the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople and later, in 1938, moved to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem. These documents are crucial for investigating the Armenian Question and Genocide.