The genocide convention [[electronic resource] ] : the legacy of 60 years / / edited by H.G. van der Wilt ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462129003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : M. Nijhoff Publishers, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-69855-1; 9786613675514; 90-04-22131-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WiltHarmen van der <1955->
• Disciplina: 345/.0251
• Soggetti: Genocide; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / H.G. van der Wilt , J. Vervliet , G.K. Sluiter and J. Th. .M. Houwink ten Cate -- Genocide and Crimes against Humanity: Clarifying the Relationship / William Schabas -- The Drafting and Development of the 1948 Convention on Genocide and the Politics of International Law / Matthew Lippman -- Understanding the Miloševic Case: Legacy of an Unfinished Trial / Nena Tromp -- Between Hate Speech and Mass Murder: How to Recognize Incitement to Genocide / Harmen van der Wilt -- The Meaning of the Word “Destroy” and its Implications for the Wider Understanding of the Concept of Genocide / Larissa van den Herik -- Criminologically Explained Reality of Genocide, Structure of the Offence and the ‘Intent to Destroy’ Requirement / Kai Ambos -- Defending the ‘Undefendable’? Taking Judicial Notice of Genocide / Göran Sluiter and Koen Vriend -- Compensating Victims of Genocide / Liesbeth Zegveld -- Why Compensation is a Mixed Blessing / Selma Leydesdorff -- Some Measure of Justice. The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990's / Michael Marrus -- On the Outlawing of Genocide Denial / Johannes Houwink ten Cate -- Les Fleurs du Mal, The Need to Confront Holocaust Distortion / Hagen Fleischer -- The United States and the Genocide Convention: The Sovereignty Package in Perspective / Lawrence LeBlanc -- The Soviet Perspective on the Drafting of the UN ; Genocide Convention / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- Truths, Memories and Histories in the Archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia / Eric Ketelaar -- Truths, Memories and Historians in the Archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia / Robert Donia -- Sixty Years UN Genocide Convention – New Challenges for Genocide / Martin Mennecke -- Genocide and Education / Dirk Mulder -- Appendix: If the Whole Body Dies: Raphael Lemkin and the Treaty Against Genocide / Robert Skloot.
• Sommario/riassunto: Genocide is widely acknowledged as ‘the crime of crimes’. Such universal condemnation understandably triggers both loose talk (calling each and every massacre ‘genocide’) and utter reluctance in political circles to use the ‘G-word’. The social construction of genocide reflects the deeper question whether the rigid legal concept of genocide – as it emerges in the Genocide Convention and has been maintained ever since – still corresponds with the historical and social perception of the phenomenon. This book is the product of an intellectual encounter between scholars of historical and legal disciplines which have joined forces to address this question. The authors are strongly inspired by the idea that the multi-disciplinary research of and education on genocide may contribute to a more appropriate reaction and prevention of genocide.

Troubling the waters [[electronic resource] ] : Black-Jewish relations in the American century / / Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459316703321
• Autore: Greenberg Cheryl Lynn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 9786612157769; 1-282-15776-0; 1-4008-2707-8
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Collana: Politics and society in twentieth-century America
• Disciplina: 305.896/07300904
• Soggetti: African Americans - Relations with Jews; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-337) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Settling in -- Of our economic strivings -- Wars and rumors of wars -- And why not every man? -- Red menace -- Things fall apart.
• Sommario/riassunto: Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement--but one that energized the civil rights revolution, shaped the agenda of liberalism, and affected the course of American politics as a whole. Drawing on extensive new research in the archives of organizations such as the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, Greenberg shows that a special black-Jewish political relationship did indeed exist, especially from the 1940's to the mid-1960's--its so-called "golden era"--and that this engagement galvanized and broadened the civil rights movement. But even during this heyday, she demonstrates, the black-Jewish relationship was anything but inevitable or untroubled. Rather, cooperation and conflict coexisted throughout, with tensions caused by economic clashes, ideological disagreements, Jewish racism, and black anti-Semitism, as well as differences in class and the intensity of discrimination faced by each ; group. These tensions make the rise of the relationship all the more surprising--and its decline easier to understand. Tracing the growth, peak, and deterioration of black-Jewish engagement over the course of the twentieth century, Greenberg shows that the history of this relationship is very much the history of American liberalism--neither as golden in its best years nor as absolute in its collapse as commonly thought.