Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

by Raphael Lemkin, Donna-Lee Frieze
     
 

The never-before published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, a giant among twentieth-century ethical thinkersSee more details below

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The never-before published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, a giant among twentieth-century ethical thinkers

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780300186963
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Publication date:
06/30/2013
Pages:
328
Product dimensions:
5.90(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. The "Insistent Prophet," Donna-Lee Frieze ix

Preface 1

1 Early Years 3

2 The Flight, 1939 25

3 The Flight, 1939-1940 41

4 A Refugee in Lithuania, Latvia, and Sweden 60

5 From Sweden to the United States 79

6 First Impressions of America: April-June 1941 98

7 Alerting the World to Genocide 112

8 The Birth of the Convention 118

9 Geneva, 1948 133

10 Paris, 1948 150

11 Climbing a Mountain Again 180

12 Nearing the End 219

Appendixes 223

Notes 241

Bibliography 267

Index 277

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