TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morsink,Johannes
TI  - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust: an endangered connection 
SN  - 9781626166301
AV  - K3238 .U558 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - United Nations
KW  - General Assembly --
KW  - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Human rights movements
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Influence
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : the Universal Declaration as postcard --; The historic moment --; New historians and the declaration --; Moyn's dismissal of the connection --; The 1940s moment of human rights --; The philosophic moment --; The moral engine of the system --; Portable, not territorial --; Conclusion: enacting the connection; 2; b
N2  - 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 this link between the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration, and contemporary human rights activism in favor of seeing the 1970s as the era of genesis. Morsink forcefully presents his case that the Universal Declaration was indeed a meaningful though underappreciated document for the human rights movement and that the declaration and its significance cannot be divorced from the Holocaust. He reexamines this linkage through the working papers of the commission that drafted the declaration as well as other primary sources. This work seeks to reset scholarly understandings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the foundations of the contemporary human rights movement
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