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  • 2 - Who Will Tame the Will to Defy Humanity?

  • Nathan A. Kurz, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • Book:
    Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust
    Published online:
    05 November 2020
    Print publication:
    26 November 2020, pp 39-63

  • Summary

    This chapter challenges conventional wisdom about intimate connections between the Holocaust and the birth of international human rights law. Facing a human rights consensus designed around deliberate silence on the Holocaust, Jewish internationalists were unable or unwilling to make Jewish legal enslavement under Nazism a primary rationale for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent international enforcement mechanisms. Speaking for the victims of the Holocaust gave Jewish internationalists little symbolic moral capital at a time most others did not want to discuss the specific fate of Jews under Nazism. The chapter also discusses early Jewish efforts at institutional-legal entrepreneurialism to develop mechanisms to bring human rights complaints to the UN.