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Jewish-European émigré lawyers : twentieth-century international humanitarian law as idea and profession / edited by Leora Bilsky, Annette Weinke.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights workers.
- Humanitarian law--20th century.
- Humanitarian law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gottingen, Germany : Wallstein Verlag, [2021]
- Summary:
- Emigrierte jüdische Juristen, Historiker, Archivare und Aktivisten und ihre individuellen Zugänge zum humanitären Völkerrecht.Emigrierte jüdisch-europäische Juristen waren im 20. Jahrhundert wichtige Träger eines rechtlichen Internationalismus und interkultureller Konzepte im Völkerrechtsdenken, die teilweise in die Nachkriegsdiskurse einflossen, vielfach aber auch vergessen oder an den Rand gedrängt wurden. Der interdisziplinäre Band konzentriert sich auf eine Reihe internationaler Juristen, Historiker, Archivare und Aktivisten und deren individuelle Zugänge zum humanitären Völkerrecht. Mit Hilfe eines biografischen Zugangs werden subjektive Erfahrungen wie akademische Sozialisation, ideologische und religiöse Überzeugungen, soziale Marginalisierung, politische bzw. rassistische Verfolgung und erzwungene Auswanderung in den Blick genommen. Zudem wird danach gefragt, inwiefern sich solche Erfahrungen in Vorstellungen von Universalismus und Partikularismus, Kosmopolitismus und Souveränität, nationaler Selbstbestimmung, Staatsbürgerschaft und Staatenlosigkeit, kollektiven Minderheitenrechten und individuellen Menschenrechten niederschlugen.English: Jewish émigré lawyers, historians, archivists and activists and their individual approaches to International Humanitarian Law.Jewish-European émigré lawyers in the twentieth century were important agents of legal internationalism and served as carriers of intercultural concepts of international legal thought; concepts, which fed into postwar discourses, but were also often forgotten or marginalized. This interdisciplinary volume focusses on a range of international lawyers, historians, archivists and activists and their individual approaches towards International Humanitarian Law. It uses a biographical lens to analyze the impact of subjective experiences like academic socialization, ideological and religious viewpoints (Weltanschauung), social marginalization, political and racial persecution, and forced emigration. Moreover, it investigates the extent to which the emigrants' experiences shaped typical notions of twentieth century politics and law, such as universalism and particularism, cosmopolitanism and sovereignty, national self-determination, citizenship and statelessness, collective minority rights, and individual human rights.
- Contents:
- Umschlag
- Titel
- Impressum
- Inhalt
- Preface
- Annette Weinke: »Something completely different.« Jews and Twentieth-Century International Humanitarian Law
- I. Concepts and Categories
- James Loeffler: Promise and Peril. Reflections on Jewish International Legal Biography
- Helmut Philipp Aust: From Diplomat to Academic Activist. Andre Mandelstam and the History of Human Rights
- Leora Bilsky: Rachel Auerbach. Reimagining the Victim as »Eyewitness« to the Nazi Camera
- II. Doing Law Across Boundaries
- Rivka Brot: Collective Rights in Transit. Protecting Jewish Rights in Displaced Person Camps
- Katharina Rauschenberger: Before Nuremberg. Fritz Bauer's Plea for the Perpetuation of Norms
- III. (Up-)Rooted Cosmopolitans?
- Lorena De Vita: An East German »Star Lawyer«, the Nazi Past and the Cold War. Friedrich Karl Kaul
- Marion Röwekamp: A Dilemma of Law and Morality. Helen Silving and International Law
- Daniel Stahl: Useful Biographies. Raphael Lemkin, Benjamin Ferencz, and the Project of Liberal Internationalism
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Index of Persons.
- Notes:
- Material in German and English.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bilsky, Leora Jewish-European Émigré Lawyers
- ISBN:
- 9783835346277
- 383534627X
- OCLC:
- 1262370038
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