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(Xt) Lemkin, Raphael : GENOCIDE AS A CRIME UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

The American Journal Of International Law, 1947

1st Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. [146]- 151 pages (ie 8 pages) ; 26 cm. "Reprinted from The American Journal of International Law. Vol. 41, No. 1, January 1947." The first written report by Lemkin, the lawyer who coined the term genocide, on his accomplishment of making genocide a crime under international law in 1946. "Raphael Lemkin (1900 1959) was a lawyer of Polonized-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide and initiating the Genocide Convention. Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from the rooted words genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing) . " (Wikipedia, 2017). Interestingly, the former owner has jotted on the front cover, “WIndsor 6 3312 Alvin Johnson,” which would appear to the the phone number and name of the New School founder who saved Jewish scholars who were fleeing Nazi Germany. “ in the beginning of the Holocaust, the U.S. State Department largely refused to admit Jewish refugees trapped in Europe to the United States. Johnson, he said, discovered a loophole.‘He learned there was a back door to saving life,’... Jerry Klinger, president of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation…said. ‘If a refugee was a farmer, the State Department was willing to let them come to America, even begrudgingly. Johnson’s simple solution was to have Jewish academics classified as farmers.’For individuals he saved, many of whom were academics in Germany, adjusting to agrarian life wasn’t easy. However, with Johnson’s help and the support of the community, the refugees were able to get by….The New School established the University in Exile as a safe haven for Jewish intellectuals threatened by the rise of European Fascism. The University in Exile served as an institutional home to Claude Levi-Strauss, Erich Fromm, and Max Wertheimer, among others” (https://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2018/04/new-school-co-founder-alvin-johns on-honored-in-north-carolina-for-saving-jewish-families/). Scarce and important. OCLC lists no copies worldwide. Previous owners notation on the front cover. Some edgewear, with a few small tears, and no text effected. Paper toning. Good+ condition. (HOLO2-135-86)

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