Books
How to Say Genocide In Hebrew, revisits the Eichmann trial of 1961, bringing to the forefront voices from the courtroom that have since been forgotten or marginalized. Following in the footsteps of Raphael Lemkin, the father of the Genocide Convention, the book’s protagonists – Abraham Sutzkever, Salo Baron, and Rachel Auerbach – envisioned, through their writings and cultural work, an alternative framework. This vision emphasized not only the physical aspects of the crime of genocide but also its cultural dimensions, and sought to define the role of the state and criminal law in responding to such crimes.
Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question: Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance extends far beyond Israel's borders.
