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 ...

Several Los Angeles–area rabbis have joined the family of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish jurist who coined the term “genocide,” in urging Pennsylvania officials to review how the Lemkin name is ...

Ever since Raphael Lemkin heard Winston Churchill’s August 1941 broadcast on the BBC, in which the prime minister declared, “The whole of Europe has been wrecked ...

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 European Jewish Association (EJA), together with Joseph Lemkin — a relative of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” — have called on Pennsylvania officials to ...

MORE THAN 60 YEARS ago, a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin fled Nazi-occupied Europe, arrived in the U.S. and invented a word that he thought would change the world. Lemkin believed that ...

In 1944, the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide”—literally, the killing of a people. A polyglot who could speak and write in about 10 languages, Lemkin devoted himself to bringing ...

Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish lawyer, introduced the concept of genocide in his 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, probably in response to Winston Churchill’s statement in 1941 as the Nazis ...

Even allowing that your play concerns mass murder, it’s rather daring to kill off your main character in the first two minutes. But that’s how Catherine Filloux begins Lemkin’s House, an afterlife-set ...

A walk though Gaza with Raphael Lemkin, the father of the UN convention on genocide. Dana Walrath is a writer, artist, and anthropologist. Her award-winning works include Aliceheimer’s, a graphic ...