Posts Tagged ‘genocide’
From the Archives: Word with a Past: Genocide
I’m dragging with a nasty respiratory virus. Instead of writing through the fog, or leaving you without a Friday blog post, I’ve chosen an old post from 2014 to share. (Enjoy may not be quite the right word.) ***** Genocide as an activity is probably as old as the concepts of “us” and “them”.…
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Word With a Past: Genocide
Genocide as an activity is probably as old as the concepts of “us” and “them”. Genocide as a word is relatively new, coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, several years before the world knew about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps As a result of studying the history of anti-Semitic pogroms in…
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