Werner Cohn

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Werner Cohn
Born1926 (1926)
New School for Social Research (PhD, 1956)
ThesisThe Political Alignments of American Jews
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-disciplinesociology of Jews and Romani people, political sociology
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia

Werner Cohn (1926 – October 19, 2018) was a sociologist who wrote on the

Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia
.

Biography

Born in Berlin,

New School for Social Research. He joined the University of British Columbia's Department of Anthropology and Sociology in 1960 and remained there until taking early retirement in 1986. Cohn's research focused on the sociology of Jews and small political movements, and he developed an interest in researching Romani people. He began his research on this topic in 1966/67 during a sabbatical in France. He continued with his studies of the Romani culture and language and returned to Europe meeting with Romani groups and with many well known scholars of the Romani. Over the years Cohn wrote numerous articles on the Romani in various scholarly journals and in 1973 he wrote The Gypsies which summarized his findings in the field.[1] He died in Brooklyn, New York in 2018.[2]

Selected works

Journal articles

Books

References

  1. The University of British Columbia
    . Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Werner Cohn | UBC Ceremonies and Events".

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