Jews turned tragedy into culture unlike Armenians – Armenian literary critic on Genocide

The Jewish nation’s success in the Holocaust recognition efforts was due to its talent of turning the tragedy into culture, a literary critic has said, expressing regret that the Armenians did follow suit.

“The Jews had a success because they made culture and art the basic tool of propaganda. They gained thanks to turning that experience into culture. But ours [Genocide recognition attempts] remained limited to wails,” Arkmenik Nikoghosyan told reporters on Saturday.

He said one literary work devoted to the topic has now been translated into dofferent languages and submitted for an international contest.

“If a piece [of literature] is awarded a prize, it will attract a public attention. We will thus facilitate the recognition process. Hence, literature can be really useful. Instead of translating foreign writers’ works, we must have our well-known samples translated into different languages and later spread them. We know all about this now, so it is necessary to introduce them to the public,” Nikoghosyan added.