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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust : an endangered connection / Johannes Morsink.

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Publisher's description: Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again. Much recent scholarship about human rights has severed th...

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Main Author: Morsink, Johannes (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
United Nations. > General Assembly. > Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Human rights.
Human rights movements.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly)
LAW > General.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Table of Contents:
  • The Universal Declaration as postcard
  • New historians and the Declaration
  • Moyn's dismissal of the connection
  • The 1940s moment of human rights
  • The moral engine of the system
  • Portable, not territorial
  • Enacting the connection.

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