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A Thousand Miracles - From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide

English · Hardback

Will be released 22.01.2026

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When the Second World War began, Theodor Meron was a Jewish-born boy of just 9. He survived ghettos, camps and unimaginable atrocities, but lost most of his family, finding sanctuary in British Palestine after the Holocaust. Now, more than eight decades later, Judge Meron is a recognized world leader in both the scholarship and practice of international criminal justice--having served as the president of three UN tribunals, delivering landmark decisions on genocide and war crimes.

This extraordinary memoir revisits Meron's time as a legal adviser to governments, often swimming against the tide; as a restless diplomat, a boundary-pushing scholar and ultimately a ground-breaking international judge. Meron has given his life to the service of justice. He is famous for his 1967 opinion finding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to be illegal under international law, an opinion he issued as a legal adviser to Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More recently, he has advised the International Criminal Court on potential crimes in the Russia-Ukraine war, and in Israel and Gaza since 2023.

The founding institutions of international justice today face unprecedented threats. Meron's life story could not be a better timed reminder of the importance of accountability.

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Judge Theodor Meron CMG was born in Poland. As a child, he survived the Holocaust, but lost his home, most of his family, and years of freedom. In 1945 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine. He holds law degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge.

Product details

Authors Theodor Meron
Publisher Hurst Publishers
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 22.01.2026
 
EAN 9781805265238
ISBN 978-1-80526-523-8
Illustrations b&w, Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Law, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Memoirs, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Jurisprudence and general issues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Holocaust, genocide, Israel, law, international law, ICC, UN

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