East West Street
Type: Book
As of November 2026, East West Street has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Aug 2025).
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity is a 2016 book by Philippe Sands that examines the lives of two Jewish lawyers, Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, born within three years of each other and students in the same city on the eastern outskirts of Europe, Lviv, who created the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide. It is a memoir and history of the origins of international criminal law in the aftermath of the Second World War.
| Mentioned in | 1 episode on 1 podcast (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Aug 2025 on The Ezra Klein Show |
| Author | Philippe Sands |
| Published | 2016 |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Subjects | Crimes against humanity, Genocide, World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | 9780385350716 |
| Genre | Crimes against humanity, Genocide, World War, 1939-1945 |
Who talks about East West Street on podcasts?
East West Street came up; the most recent mention was Aug 2025 on The Ezra Klein Show.
What is East West Street mentioned alongside?
East West Street is most often mentioned alongside Hamas, Harvard Law School and Amnesty International.
Mentioned together: Hamas, Harvard Law School, Amnesty International, United Nations (UN), Myanmar, Russia, The New York Times Magazine, South Africa, United Kingdom, Israel