This month marks 67 years since my cousin Raphael Lemkin died in New York, nearly penniless, with only a handful of mourners ...

Raphael Lemkin was a Jewish lawyer, scholar, and refugee who gave the world a vocabulary for one of humanity’s greatest evils. Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, in which nearly 50 members of his ...

Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish lawyer born in 1900, narrowly survived the Holocaust. He lost dozens of members of his family, including his parents. After experiencing this tragedy and seeing the ...

A growing coalition of prominent U.S. rabbis is urging Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and state officials to review the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, arguing that the group ...

The misuse of Raphael Lemkin’s name is not a minor concern but a critical issue that underscores the need to preserve the moral and intellectual foundations of genocide prevention. Raphael Lemkin’s ...

Rabbi Marvin Hier joined several rabbinic leaders in arguing that using the “Lemkin” name to accuse Israel of genocide misrepresents the history and moral intent behind Lemkin’s work. Relatives of ...

Few people have heard of Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, but everyone knows the term he coined: genocide. He invented the word both to describe the crime and, he hoped, to awaken the human conscience.

Filmmaker Rob Lemkin’s most famous relative is the late Raphael Lemkin, a Polish attorney who spent his life crusading against mass murder and who invented the term “genocide” to describe what the ...