01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Raphael Lemkin, Samantha Power, Economic Nationalism
14 Mar 2018
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Drafted the (cid:498)convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide(cid:524: sought to establish legal terms of international law that could be. Taught at rutgers law! imposed when confronted with a state organizing crime/genocide. Criteria from his document: killing members of a certain group/identity, bodily/mental harm to members of that group, deliberately making conditions of life for group that would result in their destruction in whole or in part. This was furthered due to the depression and concerns of immigrants taking jobs: taking in jewish refugees was broadly unpopular , economic nationalism: german jews will flood in and take jobs from. Americans (cid:523)these immigrants were considered (cid:498)un-american(cid:499) and would be damaging to the fabric of the country: anti-semitism/political impact of german jews: rooted in anti- Semitism, many saw german jews as very foreign. Anti-semitic stereotypes circled around the q of whether to let them into the country: admired him as a strong leader in rebuilding, ex.
