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Joseph Jacob Cohen (1878–1953) was a Russian anarchist who led the Stelton and Mohegan intentional communities and edited the Yiddish anarchist periodical Fraye Arbeter Shtime.

Biography

Cohen was born in Russia and was quickly pushed into rabbinical studies when he was young. In 1903 he immigrated to the United States. He settled in Philadelphia, where he became involved with the Jewish Anarchist movement.

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.

References

1. Shor, Francis (1986). "Cultural Identity and Americanization: The Life History of a Jewish Anarchist". Biography. 9 (4): 324–346. ISSN 0162-4962.

External links

• Personal papers archived at YIVO

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