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 ...

The misuse of Raphael Lemkin’s name isn’t just a bureaucratic dispute. It is a fight over historical truth, moral clarity, and the integrity of the word ‘genocide’ itself. Raphael Lemkin coined the ...

Filmmaker Rob Lemkin’s most famous relative is the late Raphael Lemkin, a Polish attorney who spent his life crusading against mass murder and who invented the term “genocide” to describe what the ...

A growing coalition of prominent U.S. rabbis is urging Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and state officials to review the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, arguing that the group ...

Rabbi Marvin Hier joined several rabbinic leaders in arguing that using the “Lemkin” name to accuse Israel of genocide misrepresents the history and moral intent behind Lemkin’s work. Relatives of ...

Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the word in 1943, as part of his lifelong campaign to make the world acknowledge and prosecute the crime. A... The Man Who Coined 'Genocide' Spent His Life Trying ...

The European Jewish Association (EJA), together with Joseph Lemkin — a relative of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” — have called on Pennsylvania officials to ...

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 ...

In an extraordinary act of collective moral clarity, more than one hundred of the world’s leading Holocaust and genocide scholars have issued a forceful rebuke against what they describe as the ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Israel declared its independence in 1948. That same year, the United Nations adopted ...