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Totally unofficial : the autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
- Title
- Totally unofficial : the autobiography of Raphael Lemkin / [Raphael Lemkin] ; edited by Donna-Lee Frieze.
- Author
- Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-2990 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *PWZ (Lemkin, R.) 13-902 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Frieze, Donna-Lee.
- Description
- xxvii, 293 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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he left behind a model for a life of activism, a legacy of major contributions to international law, and--not least--an unpublished autobiography.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"--
- "Life and work of Raphael Lemkin, who immigrated to the U.S. during World War II and made it his life's work to fight genocide, a term he coined, with the might of the U.N. Genocide Convention"--
- Alternative Title
- Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
- Subject
- Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
- Lawyers > Poland > Biography
- Lawyers > United States > Biography
- Human rights workers > Poland > Biography
- Human rights workers > United States > Biography
- Genocide > Prevention
- World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
- Human Rights > history
- Civil Rights > history
- Genocide > legislation & jurisprudence
- Violence > history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.
- Contents
- Early Years -- The Flight -- The Flight, 1939-40 -- A Refugee in Lithuainia, Latvia, and Sweden -- From Sweden to the United States -- First Impressions of America: April-June 1941 -- Alerting the World to Genocide -- The Birth of the Convention -- Geneva, 1948 -- Paris, 1948 -- Climbing a Mountain Again -- Nearing the End
- Call Number
- *PWZ (Lemkin, R.) 13-902
- ISBN
- 9780300186963 (hardback)
- 0300186967 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012051175
- OCLC
- 813392860
- Author
- Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959.
- Title
- Totally unofficial : the autobiography of Raphael Lemkin / [Raphael Lemkin] ; edited by Donna-Lee Frieze.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.
- Added Author
- Frieze, Donna-Lee.
- Research Call Number
- *PWZ (Lemkin, R.) 13-902JFD 16-2990