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Naby Frye

Assyrian Fund for Culture

Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture

15 Tower Hill Road

Brimfield, MA 01010

info@nabyfryeculturefund.org

501(c)(3) organization
 
 

From Qarajalu to Santa Clara: Exhibit Credits

A catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase ($25) from the exhibit website.

Exhibit Catalog:

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2024

‡ Assyrians from Persia (Iran) the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home. Prebsbyterian Historical Society (Philadelphia, PA), March 15-April 30, 2024. From Qarajalu to Santa Clara

The Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture has been engaged since 2020 in researching, organizing and exhibiting a major research display on early Assyrian travel between Urmia and California during the late 19th/early 20th century. The exhibit items come mainly from what a family in the San Jose area has kept for over 100 years despite having lost ties with the succeeding immigrant organizations that have arrived in California. The significance of the materials made available for modern Assyrian studies is marked by the tour of the exhibit to American and possibly international venues.

A catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase ($25) from the exhibit website.

‡ Assyrians from Persia (Iran) the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home. Fletcher Library, Arizona State University (Glendale, AZ), January 15-February 23, 2024. From Qarajalu to Santa Clara

The Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture has been engaged since 2020 in researching, organizing and exhibiting a major research display on early Assyrian travel between Urmia and California during the late 19th/early 20th century. The exhibit items come mainly from what a family in the San Jose area has kept for over 100 years despite having lost ties with the succeeding immigrant organizations that have arrived in California. The significance of the materials made available for modern Assyrian studies is marked by the tour of the exhibit to American and possibly international venues.

A catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase ($25) from the exhibit website.

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2023

‡ Assyrians from Persia (Iran) the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home. The Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), April 13-May 31, 2023. From Qarajalu to Santa Clara

The Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture has been engaged since 2020 in researching, organizing and exhibiting a major research display on early Assyrian travel between Urmia and California during the late 19th/early 20th century. The exhibit items come mainly from what a family in the San Jose area has kept for over 100 years despite having lost ties with the succeeding immigrant organizations that have arrived in California. The significance of the materials made available for modern Assyrian studies is marked by the tour of the exhibit to American and possibly international venues.

A catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase ($25) from the exhibit website.

‡ Assyrians from Persia (Iran) the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), April 13-May 31, 2023. From Qarajalu to Santa Clara

The Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture has been engaged since 2020 in researching, organizing and exhibiting a major research display on early Assyrian travel between Urmia and California during the late 19th/early 20th century. The exhibit items come mainly from what a family in the San Jose area has kept for over 100 years despite having lost ties with the succeeding immigrant organizations that have arrived in California. The significance of the materials made available for modern Assyrian studies is marked by the tour of the exhibit to American and possibly international venues.

A catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase ($25) from the exhibit website.

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2022

‡ From Qarajalu to Santa Clara Department of History, University of Washington (Seattle, WA), December 7-9, 2022.

The Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture has been engaged since 2020 in researching, organizing and exhibiting a major research display on early Assyrian travel between Urmia and California during the late 19th/early 20th century. The exhibit items come mainly from what a family in the San Jose area has kept for over 100 years despite having lost ties with the succeeding immigrant organizations that have arrived in California. The significance of the materials made available for modern Assyrian studies is marked by the tour of the exhibit to American and possibly international venues.

While the initial costs of the exhibit came from the Assyrian Foundation of America, the NFAFC continues to fund parts of the traveling exhibit, especially any accompanying lectures. A schedule of travel will be posted here and on the exhibit website.

The exhibit focuses on a single family, Joseph/Yuseff, from the Urmia village of Qarajalu, an Assyrian/Armenian populated village located between Urmia and Salamas. A cache of about 150 letters received provide a window into how Assyrians viewed events from 1887 to 1923. The correspondence will be archived at UC Berkeley. As it tours, the exhibit title has been changed to Assyrians from Persian (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries and the Search for a Home.

A catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase ($25) from the exhibit website.

‡ From Qarajalu to Santa Clara (Sunnyvale, CA). April 3- June 5, 2022. Grant amount: $15,000. Exhibited at the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum. Videos: 1. Qarajalu Promo Video (AGN TV) 2. Lecture: "New Urmia in Place of the Old" by Dr. Arianne Ishaya (AGN TV)

A catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase ($25) from the exhibit website.