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Chapter LEMKIN, CULTURE, AND THECONCEPT dirk Inthe beginning was RAPHAEL lemkin is effectively how the conventional accountsof the genocide CONCEPT begin. As the coiner of the word and father of the genocideconvention , his person is held to be coeval with the CONCEPT , so that biographyreplaces intellectual history. That biography is written teleologically as a heroicstruggle against the odds, consummated in the United Nations Convention on thePunishment and Prevention of Genocide in1948, and invested with poignancyafter his death, alone and exhausted in1959, a martyr to the cause.
Accordingly, Lemkin’s ideas are not always well understood, whether by those who invoke him or by his critics. For some Holocaust specialists, his definition of
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