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Kochar's work is very varied, for he worked equally well in the spheres of sculpture, painting and graphic art. In the square by the station in Yerevan stands his superb monument to David of Sasoun, hero of the Armenian literary epic. Kochar was born in Tiflis and studied in Moscow, and then spent 15 years living and working in Paris, from the early 1920s.

Yair Auron is senior lecturer at The Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education. He is the author, in Hebrew, of Jewish-Israeli Identity, Sensitivity to World Suffering: Genocide in the Twentieth Century, We Are All German Jews, and Jewish Radicals in France during the Sixties and Seventies (published in French as well).