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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal plane. (Photo/Vatican Media) Opinion. Genocide is a word that was introduced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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