Totally Unofficial
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Totally Unofficial

The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Totally Unofficial

The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

About this book

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "genocide" and propelled the idea into international legal status. An uncommonly creative pioneer in ethical thought, he twice was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Although Lemkin died alone and in poverty, he left behind a model for a life of activism, a legacy of major contributions to international law, and-not least-an unpublished autobiography. Presented here for the first time is his own account of his life, from his boyhood on a small farm in Poland with his Jewish parents, to his perilous escape from Nazi Europe, through his arrival in the United States and rise to influence as an academic, thinker, and revered lawyer of international criminal law.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: The ‘‘Insistent Prophet’’
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter one. Early Years
  6. Chapter two. The Flight, 1939
  7. Chapter three. The Flight, 1939–1940
  8. Chapter four. A Refugee in Lithuania, Latvia, and Sweden
  9. Chapter five. From Sweden to the United States
  10. Chapter six. First Impressions of America
  11. Chapter seven. Alerting the World to Genocide
  12. Chapter eight. The Birth of the Convention
  13. Chapter nine. Geneva, 1948
  14. Chapter ten. Paris, 1948
  15. Chapter eleven. Climbing a Mountain Again
  16. Chapter twelve. Nearing the End
  17. Appendixes
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index