Abstract
The article is an examination of the persons and trials of Soghomon Tehlirian and Sholem Schwartzbard, their political assassinations as acts of vengeance for genocide and pogroms, their trials and subsequent acquittals. It is also an examination of the influences of these two events on the evolved thinking of Raphael Lemkin on his conceptualization of the needs for an international law contra genocide. Finally, it also elaborates on what information is now available on both men and their associations, and what was known and unknown to Lemkin and whether or not these two cases remained centrally important to his understandings.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.13.1.1594
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Jacobs, Steven Leonard
(2019)
"The Complicated Cases of Soghomon Tehlirian and Sholem Schwartzbard and Their Influences on Raphaël Lemkin's Thinking About Genocide,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal:
Vol. 13:
Iss.
1:
33-41.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.13.1.1594
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol13/iss1/7
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