JOURNAL OF ARMENIAN STUDIES: Volume V, Number 2: Winter/Spring 1995-96

Contents: Armenia and the Origins of Astronomyby Elma S. ParsamianThe True Meaning of NarekatsiArmenian Village Life -- Khachatur Abovian : A Conversion to Modernity and an Experience of Resurrectionby Jean-Pierre MahéAn Armenian Nurse in Turkish Wards: A World War I Storyby Rebecca AvedikianThe Armenian Community of the Netherlandsby Beatrice DemirdjianOf Research, Studies, and Scholars:In Memoriam: Avedis K. SanjianMashtots Professorship of Armenian StudiesThe Case of the Orlov Diamond Reopenedby Jude GalstyanReview Essays: The Last Two Plays of William Saroyan, edited by Dickran Kouymjian (essay by Harold Aram Veeser); Implications of the Muse: The Poetry of Archie Minasian (essay by Harold Bond) Book Reviews: The Serpent and the Bees: A KGB Chronicle, by Edward Alexander; A Crime of Vengeance: An Armenian Struggle for Justice (both reviewed by Moorad Mooradian) National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) (1996)