{"id":1274,"date":"2025-03-24T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:29:32","slug":"inaugural-koren-lecture-in-holocaust-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/2025\/03\/24\/inaugural-koren-lecture-in-holocaust-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Imagining Law after Nuremberg: Lemkin, Jackson, and the Poetry of Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 23rd<br>4:30 PM<br>Gilman 132<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented by Felix Posen Professor of Jewish History <strong>James Loeffler<\/strong>&nbsp;(History) with response by<strong>&nbsp;Dr. Linda Kinstler<\/strong>&nbsp;of the Harvard University Society of Fellows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did the Holocaust reshape the modern legal imagination? This lecture explores that question through the writing of two lawyers whose lives converged at the Nuremberg Trials \u2013 the U.S. judge and prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and the Polish Jewish legal activist Raphael Lemkin. Rereading their lost poems alongside their legal texts reveals two different strains of legal realism present at Nuremberg. Retracing their pathways out of Nuremberg allows us to see how international law came to be a site for remembering &#8212; and forgetting &#8212; the Holocaust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inaugural Koren Lecture in Holocaust Studies: Imagining Law after Nuremberg: Lemkin, Jackson, and the Poetry of Justice will be held on April 23rd and presented by James Loeffler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":1275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}