George N. Shirinian
Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of
Judaic Studies and is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa. An ordained rabbi, Professor Jacobs is
a specialist on the Holocaust and Genocide, Biblical Studies,
Jewish-Jewish Christian Relations, and is one of the foremost
authorities on Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), who coined the term
“genocide” and devoted his life to the enactment of an international law
on the punishment and prevention of genocide.
Among his numerous publications, Prof. Jacobs is the author of the
chapter entitled, “Lemkin on Three Genocides: Comparing His Writings on
the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides,” in the recently published
book, Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks
1913-1923, edited by George N. Shirinian (New York and Oxford: Berghahn
Books, 2017, published in association with The Asia Minor and Pontos
Hellenic Research Center and The Zoryan Institute).
