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.[ 1]
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 .
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