PHILIPPE SANDS is an international lawyer and a professor of law at University College London. He is the author of Lawless World and Torture Team and is a frequent commentator on CNN and the BBC World Service. Sands lectures around the world and has taught at New York University and been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, the University of Melbourne, and the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne). In 2003 he was appointed a Queen’s Counsel. He lives in London, England.
A profound and profoundly important book—a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich.
East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in a city little known today that was a major cultural center of Europe, “the little Paris of Ukraine,” a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv. It is also a spellbinding family memoir, as the author traces the mysterious story of his grandfather, as he maneuvered through Europe in the face of Nazi atrocities.
East West Street is a book that changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder.
發表於2024-12-26
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圖書標籤: 曆史 政治哲學 non-fiction PhilippeSands 2016 小說 History 英國
以四個人物為切入點,將曆史事件在推移中絲絲纏繞,形成二戰德國Reich迫害猶太人、波蘭人以及吉普賽人的全麵視角。人物事件不斷穿插講述,倒也不覺得淩亂,另外幾個人的重大事件時間點其實都差不多,但也未有重復贅述之感(當然也或許是我記不住關鍵的地名),這對作者的材料整理組織能力要求也太高瞭。有關於德國二戰前後的惡行,曆史書基本寥寥幾語,語文課本也就一篇《奧斯維辛沒有新聞》,哪知背後生命和鮮血的消逝竟然綿延如此之久。但是戰後審判也未根除其中惡因,近年也是不斷看到有法西斯復闢的新聞,文中更是有戰犯後代恬不知恥為殺人犯父親辯白,甚至於去領獲當代法西斯群體對其父親的崇拜。另外文中有關於genocide又講到美國對印第安人的暴行,看來沒有誰忘記美國也不乾淨。
評分神書。everyone should read it, and re-read it, and read it again.
評分An intriguing field survey of the Nazi-era atrocities as suffered by Jews and a stimulating review of Lauterpacht and Lemkin’s intellectual divide on criminalizing such atrocities. A personal odyssey of the author done nevertheless for us all as humans.
評分以四個人物為切入點,將曆史事件在推移中絲絲纏繞,形成二戰德國Reich迫害猶太人、波蘭人以及吉普賽人的全麵視角。人物事件不斷穿插講述,倒也不覺得淩亂,另外幾個人的重大事件時間點其實都差不多,但也未有重復贅述之感(當然也或許是我記不住關鍵的地名),這對作者的材料整理組織能力要求也太高瞭。有關於德國二戰前後的惡行,曆史書基本寥寥幾語,語文課本也就一篇《奧斯維辛沒有新聞》,哪知背後生命和鮮血的消逝竟然綿延如此之久。但是戰後審判也未根除其中惡因,近年也是不斷看到有法西斯復闢的新聞,文中更是有戰犯後代恬不知恥為殺人犯父親辯白,甚至於去領獲當代法西斯群體對其父親的崇拜。另外文中有關於genocide又講到美國對印第安人的暴行,看來沒有誰忘記美國也不乾淨。
評分太好瞭!!the intellectual debate of genocide v. crimes against humanity parallels the interweaving of family history and Nazi history/Nuremberg ????讀完毅然決然選瞭訴訟(並沒有關係)
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