ABSTRACT
After the Madrid conference, in 1934, Lemkin stepped down as a prosecutor. He still performed various functions at different lawyers’ associations, lectured on law at a private Jewish secondary school in Warsaw (Takhemoni Rabbinical Seminary), and started a private legal practice. There is no evidence to believe that Lemkin was forced to resign as a prosecutor, or that he feared that he would be made to take politically motivated decisions. He now had a better paycheck and enjoyed greater freedom. He decided against accepting the offer of moving to the United States, because that would have meant leaving behind his family. After Piłsudski’s death, he was confronted with a political shift rightward. He was aware of the welling up of radical tendencies in certain sections of Polish society and believed that a system based on the April constitution was a justified attempt to lessen the impact of extreme nationalistic and totalitarian ideologies.
