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 ...

Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish lawyer born in 1900, narrowly survived the Holocaust. He lost dozens of members of his family, including his parents. After experiencing this tragedy and seeing the ...

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 ...

Names After Death: Post-Mortem Rights of Publicity in the Context of the Gaza Conflict Daniel Markind examines how post-mortem rights of publicity are being invoked by the heirs of Raphael Lemkin, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just days after Hamas unleashed its death squads to behead kibbutzniks with shovels, and Israel, with a quick clench of an already tightened fist, began its total siege and terror-bombing of Gaza, the ...

Dr. Raphael Lemkin, the world’s leading individual proponent of the international movement to outlaw genocide, and the man who coined the term “genocide,” died here this week-end. He was 58. The ...

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 ...