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Zabel Yessayan: In the Gardens of Silihdar
Judith Saryan
Reflections on Yessayan's early years and the influences that shaped her as a writer and activist.

Zabel Yessayan: In the Gardens of Silihdar
Author, educator and activist, Zabel Yessayan (1878-1943), came of age in the Armenian community of Constantinople at the end of the nineteenth century. Her fierce sense of justice and determination to succeed in the literary world were evident even in her youth, and Zabel would grow up to become one of her community’s leading voices for social justice and women’s rights. In this video, Judith Saryan describes Zabel’s childhood and early years and the influences that shaped her as a writer, an activist and, in many ways, a woman ahead or her time. The title of the video in inspired by Yessayan’s 1935 memoir, The Gardens of Silihdar, a poignant narrative of her childhood and a vivid account of Armenian community life in Constantinople at the end of the nineteenth century.

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