Joseph J. Cohen
Joseph Cohen | |
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 Cohen in 1946 | |
| Born | Joseph Jacob Kantorowitz 31 August 1878 |
| Died | 1953 (aged 74–75) New York |
| Known for | Mohegan Colony, Stelton Colony |
| Relatives | Joe Conason (grandson) |
Joseph Jacob Cohen (born Joseph Jacob Kantorowitz; 31 August 1878 – 1953) was a Russian anarchist who cofounded and led the Stelton and Mohegan intentional communities and edited the Yiddish anarchist periodical Fraye Arbeter Shtime.
Cohen was born on 31 August 1878, in the Russian Empire, in what is today Belarus. While young, he was pushed into rabbinical studies.[1] In 1903, he immigrated to the United States. He settled in Philadelphia, where he became involved with the Jewish anarchist movement.[2]
References
- ↑ The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences. AK Press. 2024 [1945]. pp. 9–10.
- ↑ Shor, Francis (1986). "Cultural Identity and Americanization: The Life History of a Jewish Anarchist". Biography. 9 (4): 324–346. ISSN 0162-4962.
Further reading
- Avrich, Paul (1980). "Joseph Cohen". The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 179–. ISBN 0-691-04669-7. OCLC 489692159.
- Avrich, Paul (1988). "Jewish Anarchism in the United States". Anarchist Portraits. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 195. ISBN 0-691-04753-7. OCLC 17727270.
- Shor, Francis (1986). "Cultural Identity and Americanization: The Life History of a Jewish Anarchist". Biography. 9 (4): 324–346. doi:10.1353/bio.2010.0496. ISSN 1529-1456. S2CID 145005985 – via Project MUSE.
- Sutton, Robert P. (2005). "Cohen, Joseph B.". Modern American Communes: A Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-0-313-32181-8.
- Trahair, R. C. S. (1999). "Cohen, Joseph". Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 79–80. ISBN 978-0-313-29465-5.
- Zimmer, Kenyon (2024). "Joseph Jacob Cohen (1878–1953) and the Jewish Anarchism Movement". The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences. By Cohen, Jacob. Zimmer, Kenyon (ed.). Translated by Dolgoff, Esther. AK Press. pp. 9–26. ISBN 978-1-84935-548-3.
External links
- Personal papers archived at YIVO
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