Jews and Human Rights Dancing at Three Weddings

In the wake of the Holocaust, a Jewish lawyer coined the term "genocide" and Jews played a major role in drafting UN human rights initiatives. Through tracing Jewish responses to Soviet treatment of Jews and non-Jewish mass killings, Galchinsky explains the lack of activists' conflict between their support for international human rights, Jewish nationalism, and domestic pluralism--the three "weddings" of the title. Appendices include a summary table of genocides up to the present Darfur situation, and human rights treaties adopted by Israel.