Lemkin on Genocide

by Jacobs, Steven Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780739145265
• ISBN10: 0739145266
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-09
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term genocide and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials collected here give readers further insight into this singularly courageous man and the issue which consumed him in the aftermath of the Second World War. It is a welcome addition to the library of genocide and Holocaust Studies scholars and students alike.

Author Biography

Steven Leonard Jacobs is the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies and associate professor at the University of Alabama.

Table of Contents

Lemkin on Genocide: An Introduction	p. vii
Introduction to the Study of Genocide
The Project	p. 3
History of Genocdde
Antiquity
The Albigensians	p. 59
Assyrians	p. 83
Middle Ages
Mongols	p. 103
Moors and Moriscos	p. 157
Modern Times
The Germans in Africa	p. 189
Assyrians in Iraq…Christians	p. 223
Chios	p. 261
Hereros	p. 267
Huguenots	p. 279
The Case of Hungary	p. 317
The Persecution of the Catholics in Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	p. 343
The Case of Poland	p. 371
The Case of the Spanish in the Peru of the Incas	p. 379
Index	p. 403
About the Editor	p. 415
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