Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1922–2013)
Author of Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City
About the Author
Image credit: Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, author of Smyrna 1922, photo by her uncle Kegham Ashjian By Kegham Ashjian - This is a family photo of my mother taken by her uncle, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76606208
Works by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
Associated Works
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1957 v03: The Lady / A Houseful of Love / The Three Faces of Eve / Letter from Peking / The FBI Story / Mission to Borneo (1957) — Author — 32 copies
The Making of a Feminist: Early Journals and Letters of M. Carey Thomas (1980) — Editor — 30 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1922-11-21
- Date of death
- 2013-02-08
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Barnard College (AB|1944)
- Occupations
- professor of English
academic administrator - Organizations
- Barnard College
Institute on the Study of Genocide at John Jay College
Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide in Israel - Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
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An account of the sack of Smyrna by the Turks in 1922. Also an account of how political interests and money interests can easily trump mere humanitarian concerns; per orders, the Allied ships waited in the harbor while watching the citizens of Smyrna (Greeks and Armenians) be burned to death by Turkish soldiers. Although some individuals act heroically (American Consul Horton saved thousands; and many French naval personnel let refugees escape if they could speak French and claimed to be show more French nationals), overall informative but depressing. show less
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- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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