Extract from book by
M. Benvenisti

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Armenian Studies

Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide

Beit Belgia, Library, 28 April, 2004 at 6.30 pm

Part I
Readings and Commemoration
Prof. M.E. Stone presiding

Bible Reading
Hebrew -- Dr. Nira Stone
Armenian -- Fr. Pakrad Bourjekian

Moment of Silence and Memory

Words of Greeting
His Beatitude Torkom II, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem
Professor Gabriel Motzkin, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
H.E. Mr. Tsolag Momjian, Honourary Consul of the Republic of Armenia
Professor Michael Stone, Professor of Armenian Studies

Two songs from the West Armenian Popular Tradition sung by Fr. Kousan Aljanian

Part II
Symposium
Dr. Sergio La Porta presiding

Remarks by Professor Robert Hewsen, Visiting Lady Davis Professor of Armenian Studies (10 minutes)

Lecture by Professor Dalia Ofer, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Formation of Holocaust Memorial in Israel (20 minutes)

Response to Prof. Ofer's Lecture by Mr. Tsolag Momjian (10 minutes)

Remarks by Dr. Aram Topchyan, Matenadaran, Yerevan. (10 minutes)
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Armenian Studies

Envoi

Reading of Vahan Tekeyan's poem, "Prayer on the Threshold of Tomorrow"
by Dr. Sergio La Porta.