ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to interrelate, within the confines of a few written pages, the two principal genocides of this century in order to encourage emerging efforts to shift attention from case studies to comparative studies of genocide. Case studies by nature are narrowly conceived undertakings, no matter how unusual the event they may cover. In the case of genocide, unlike other crimes, the ramifications are global and devastating for humanity at large. Vahakn N. Dadrian published a comprehensive study on the Armenian genocide entitled History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. The Armenians were destroyed in their natural homeland- their ancestral territories- in historic Armenia. The Armenians were essentially destroyed on account of their identification with Christianity in general; the Jews were mainly destroyed for a diametrically opposite reason, namely, for their dissociation from Christianity and for all that such dissociation implied.
