LEMKIN ON THREE GENOCIDES Comparing His Writings on the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides

There is no question that, in addition to his critically important volume published towards the end of World War II—Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress²—Jewish and Polish-born, naturalized American citizen Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), “fathe...

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Published inGenocide in the Ottoman Empire p. 253
Main Author Steven Leonard Jacobs
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berghahn Books 01.02.2017
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Summary:There is no question that, in addition to his critically important volume published towards the end of World War II—Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress²—Jewish and Polish-born, naturalized American citizen Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), “father” of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide and author of our word “genocide,”³ would have made his scholarly and, perhaps, popular mark with the (eventual) publication of what was to have been his magnum opus: his three-volume History of Genocide (I. Antiquity; II. Middle Ages; III.
ISBN:9781785334320
1785334328
DOI:10.2307/j.ctvw04g61.14