Research Catalog

Title

Totally unofficial : the autobiography of Raphael Lemkin / [Raphael Lemkin] ; edited by Donna-Lee Frieze.

Author

Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959.

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

Frieze, Donna-Lee.

Description

xxvii, 293 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "genocide" and propelled the idea into international legal status. An uncommonly creative pioneer in ethical thought, he twice was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Although Lemkin died alone and in poverty, he left behind a model for a life of activism, a legacy of major contributions to international law, and--not least--an unpublished autobiography. Presented here for the first time is his own account of his life, from his boyhood on a small farm in Poland with his Jewish parents, to his perilous escape from Nazi Europe, through his arrival in the United States and rise to influence as an academic, thinker, and revered lawyer of international criminal law"--
• "Life and work of Raphael Lemkin, who immigrated to the U.S. during World War II and made it his life's work to fight genocide, a term he coined, with the might of the U.N. Genocide Convention"--

Alternative Title

Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

Subjects

• Genocide > Prevention
• World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
• Civil Rights > history
• Genocide > legislation & jurisprudence
• Human rights workers > United States > Biography
• Human Rights > history
• Lawyers > Poland > Biography
• Human rights workers > Poland > Biography
• Violence > history
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
• Lawyers > United States > Biography
• Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.

Contents

Early Years -- The Flight -- The Flight, 1939-40 -- A Refugee in Lithuainia, Latvia, and Sweden -- From Sweden to the United States -- First Impressions of America: April-June 1941 -- Alerting the World to Genocide -- The Birth of the Convention -- Geneva, 1948 -- Paris, 1948 -- Climbing a Mountain Again -- Nearing the End

Call Number

*PWZ (Lemkin, R.) 13-902

ISBN

• 9780300186963 (hardback)
• 0300186967 (hardback)

LCCN

2012051175

OCLC

813392860

Author

Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959.

Title

Totally unofficial : the autobiography of Raphael Lemkin / [Raphael Lemkin] ; edited by Donna-Lee Frieze.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.

Added Author

Frieze, Donna-Lee.

Research Call Number

*PWZ (Lemkin, R.) 13-902

JFD 16-2990