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 ...

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 ...

The misuse of Raphael Lemkin’s name isn’t just a bureaucratic dispute. It is a fight over historical truth, moral clarity, and the integrity of the word ‘genocide’ itself. Raphael Lemkin coined the ...

When did the Second World War end? In the absence of a formal peace treaty in 1945, we celebrate on the dates of military surrender—V-E Day (May 8), or V-J Day (August 15). But in a sense, it would be ...

International lawyer Raphael Lemkin helped draft the Genocide Convention, which maps out prevention and punishment for the crime of genocide. (Credit: Bettmann Archive) Raphael Lemkin coined the very ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, Samantha Power won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “A Problem From Hell,” a history of American inaction in the face of genocide. As she awaits Senate confirmation to be the country’s ...