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Jacob Cohen
| Professor Jacob Cohen has taught at Brandeis University since 1961 and before that he taught at Yale University. From 1964 to 1968 he was on leave working in the civil rights movement as a writer and editor with Core, the Congress of Racial Eqaulity. In that connection he wrote the book, Freedom When?, with James Farmer. He is also a former editor of Midstream the Zionist quarterly published by the Theodore Herzl Foundation and has contributed articles of Jewish interest to Commentary and Jewish Frontier. Professor Cohen's scholarly and teaching interests are wide ranging: in such journals as Nation, New Leader, Dissent, The New York Times, The Phoenix, Boston Reveiw, he has published articles on the Kennedy assassination, on violence in American history, on civil rights, and on anti-semitism and sport in american culture. |
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