East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"

Posted on by

A profound and profoundly important book a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler s Third Reich East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of genocide and crimes against humanity, both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in a city little known today that was a major cultural center of Europe, the little Paris of Ukraine, a city variously called Lemberg, Lw w, Lvov, or Lviv It begins in 2010 and moves backward and forward in time, from the present day to twentieth century Poland, France, Germany, England, and America, ending in the courtroom of the Palace of Justice at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1945 The book opens with the author being invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University, welcomed as the first international law academic to give a lecture there on such subjects in fifty years Sands accepted the invitation with the intent of learning about the extraordinary city with its rich cultural and intellectual life, home to his maternal grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century before and who d moved to Vienna at the outbreak of the First World War, married, had a child the author s mother , and who then had moved to Paris after the German annexation of Austria in 1938 It was a life that had been shrouded in secrecy, with many questions not to be asked and fewer answers offered if they were As the author uncovered, clue by clue, the deliberately obscured story of his grandfather s mysterious life and of his flight first to Vienna and then to Paris, and of his mother s journey as a child surviving Nazi occupation, Sands searched further into the history of the city of Lemberg and realized that his own field of humanitarian law had been forged by two men Rafael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht each of whom had studied law at Lviv University in the city of his grandfather s birth, each of whom had come to be considered the finest international legal mind of the twentieth century, each considered to be the father of the modern human rights movement, and each, at parallel times, forging diametrically opposite, revolutionary concepts of humanitarian law that had changed the world In this extraordinary and resonant book, Sands looks at who these two very private men were, and at how and why, coming from similar Jewish backgrounds and the same city, studying at the same university, each developed the theory he did, showing how each man dedicated this period of his life to having his legal concept genocide and crimes against humanity as a centerpiece for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals And the author writes of a third man, Hans Frank, Hitler s personal lawyer, a Nazi from the earliest days who had destroyed so many lives, friend of Richard Strauss, collector of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci Frank oversaw the ghetto in Lemberg in Poland in August 1942, in which the entire large Jewish population of the area had been confined on penalty of death Frank, who was instrumental in the construction of concentration camps nearby and, weeks after becoming governor general of Nazi occupied Poland, ordered the transfer of 133,000 men, women, and children to the death camps Sands brilliantly writes of how all three men came together, in October 1945 in Nuremberg Rafael Lemkin Hersch Lauterpacht and in the dock at the Palace of Justice, with the twenty other defendants of the Nazi high command, prisoner number 7, Hans Frank, who had overseen the extermination of than a million Jews of Galicia and Lemberg, among them, the families of the author s grandfather as well as those of Lemkin and Lauterpacht A book that changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder Powerful moving tender a revelation. Best Download East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Unnatural LawPhilippe Sands offers a new theory of law packaged in a new literary genre in East West Street Call them both phenomenological or, perhaps less pretentiously, unnatural because neither conforms with traditional presumptions in the law or literature Both the theory and the genre break the rules Specifically, the content of East West Street implies that the d...It was a fascinating read for me and I loved every page turned in this memorable book Philippe Sands traces the tragic secret history of his own family and we feel as if we are alongside him in his journey A personal family history painstainkilly researched and beautifully written by the author and a history of the legal concepts that were devised to deal with the historically unprecedented horrors of the Holocaust East West Street weaves together a collective narrative which is focused on It was a fascinating read for me and I loved every page turned in this memorable book Philippe Sands traces the tragic secret history of his own family and we feel as if we are alongside him in his journey A personal family history painstainkilly researched and beautifully written by the author and a history of the legal concepts that were devised to deal with the historically unprecedented horrors of the Holocaust East West Street weaves together a collective narrative which is focused on the interrelated lives of four men, Hersch Lauterpacht, Raphael Lemkin, Hans Frank and Le...In this book , author Phillippe Sands looks back to the city of Lviv, known as Lemberg as well as many other names and located variously in the Austro Hungarian Empire, Poland, occupied by the Soviets and, after 1944, part of Ukraine Lviv, or Lemberg, was home to three men before the Second World War One was the author s grandfather, Leon Buchholz Another was Hersch Lauterpacht, a professor of Internat...East West Street is an interesting mix of autobiography, history and legal theory The author s grandparents were Jews from a town in Eastern Europe that had gone through various names and been part of different countries during the 20th century Sands tells the story of how his grandparents and mother survived World War II At the same time, he writes about two legal scholars originally from the same town who developed the concepts of genocide and crimes against humanity as two different ways East West Street is an interesting mix of autobiography, history and legal theory The author s grandparents were Jews from a town in Eastern Europe that had gone through various names and been part of different countries during the 20th century Sands tells the story of how his grandparents and mother survived World War II At the sa...The opening quote is from Joseph Roth s The Wandering Jews 1927 The little town lies in the middle of a great plain It begins with little huts and ends with them After a while the huts are replaced by houses Streets begin One runs from north to south, the other from east to west The east west street of the title is where Sands grandfather, Leon Buchholz, lived with his family in as small village near Lemberg, then in the Austr Hungarian province of Galicia.The city we now know as Lviv The opening quote is from Joseph Roth s The Wandering Jews 1927 The little town lies in the middle of a great plain It begins with little huts and ends with them After a while the huts are replaced by houses Streets begin One runs from north to south, the other from east to west The east west street of the title is where Sands grandfather, Leon Buchholz, lived with his family in as small village near Lemberg, then in ...This book is about two lawyers, Hersch Lauterpacht 1897 1960 and Rafael Lemkin 1900 1959 , who grew up in what is now called Lviv in the western part of Ukraine Lviv was formerly called Lemberg, Lvov, or Lwow depending on who had control Poland, Ukraine, Soviet Union, or Germany during the Second World War.Both Lauterpacht and Lemkin began their studies of law in Lviv They were both Jewish and large parts of their families were slaughtered during the Holocaust This also happened to This book is about two lawyers, Hersch Lauterpacht 1897 1960 and Rafael Lemkin 1900 1959 , who grew up in what i...Part historical inquiry, part family history, this book is a fascinating exploration of the lives of three men against the backdrop of one of the most horrifying periods in human history The level of research Sands has put into this book is unquestionable, using a wealth of varied evidence, including interviews, photos, letters, and court testimony The author maintains a rather dispassionate tone through most of the book yet his clinical statements about Nazi atrocities and the ever Part historical inquiry, part family history, this book is a fascinating exploration of the lives of three men against the backdrop of one of the most horrifying periods in human history The level of research Sands has put into this book is unquestionable, using a wealth of varied evidence, including interviews, photos, letters, and court testimony The author maintains a rather dispassionate tone through most of the book yet his clinical statements about Nazi atrocities and the ever increasing destruction of the rights, freedoms, and lives of Jewis...Back in 2010 the barrister Philippe Sands was asked to give a lecture at Lviv University in Ukraine on the subjects of genocide and crimes against humanity This gave him the opportunity to visit the city, and maybe discoverabout his maternal grandfather, a man who he knew so little about Sands knew he was Jewish, had moved to Vienna as war enveloped Europe in 19...One of the most important books I have read ever A deeply moving and shocking piece of literature..Philippe Sands an international jewish lawyer try to dig up his family secret history..He uncovers the path which will lead him halfway across the world and even to the Nuremberg trial..He does magnify two Nuremberg prosecutors Lemkin and Lauterpacht..The two of them invented and gave birth to crimes of genocide, and crimes against humanity My paperback edition has lots of pictures and One of the most important books I have read ever A deeply moving and shocking piece of lite...I was totally unprepared for how good a book this was Let me try to explain.At one level, this is an intellectual history of the evolution of two concepts central to international law since World War II and the Holocaust and still relevant today in the consideration of human rights abuses in conflicts all around the world These are the ideas of crimes a...

East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
  • English
  • 10 November 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 448 pages
  • 0385350716
  • Philippe Sands
  • East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"