Introduction Raphael Lemkin:Polish Jewish Jurist Case Studies of Genocide Defining Genocide The Holocaust Quest for a Convention After the Convention:The Struggle for Ratification Last Years Defining Genocide After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Lemkin escaped to Sweden, where he became a lecturer ...

Introduction Raphael Lemkin:Polish Jewish Jurist Case Studies of Genocide Defining Genocide The Holocaust Quest for a Convention After the Convention:The Struggle for Ratification Last Years After the Convention: The Struggle for Ratification Though the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment o...

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More THE BAAL SHEM TOV TORAH SCROLL. Podolia (Ukraine), ca. mid-18th century. Gift of Avraham Gottesman. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum.This Torah scroll belonged to the founder of Hasidism, Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer (ca. 1700 1760), also known as the Baal Shem Tov or Besht. Rabbi Israels pe...

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