Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention, John Cooper (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), vii + 338 pp., cloth 80.00
John Cooper's meticulous account of the life and work of Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), the Polish Jewish lawyer known for coining the term “genocide,” is the first comprehensive biography of the tireless campaigner for the UN Genocide Convention. Although Cooper focuses on Lemkin's postwar a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 130-133 |
| Review of: | Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention (Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) (Cohen, G. Daniel)
Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention (Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) (Cohen, G. Daniel) |
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| Summary: | John Cooper's meticulous account of the life and work of Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), the Polish Jewish lawyer known for coining the term “genocide,” is the first comprehensive biography of the tireless campaigner for the UN Genocide Convention. Although Cooper focuses on Lemkin's postwar attempts to secure the protection of national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups within the framework of international law, he also offers riveting descriptions of Lemkin's childhood in the contested multi-ethnic borderland of Eastern Poland and his formative years as a student in Lwów (Lvov) in the 1920s. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq010 |