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Naomi W. Cohen

AKA Naomi Wiener

Born: 13-Nov-1927
Birthplace: New York City

Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jews in Christian America

Father: Louis Wiener
Mother: Mary Halkin
Husband: Gerson D. Cohen (m. 1948, one son, one daughter)
Son: Jeremy
Daughter: Judith

    University: BA, Hunter College (1947)
    Theological: BHL, Seminary College of Jewish Studies (1948)
    University: MA, Columbia University (1949)
    University: PhD, Columbia University (1955)
    Professor: History, Hunter College (1962-96)

    American Historical Association
    Association for Jewish Studies
    Organization of American Historians
    Phi Beta Kappa Society

Author of books:
Not Free to Desist: The American Jewish Committee, 1906-1966 (1972, corporate history)
American Jews and the Zionist Idea (1975, religion)
Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914 (1984, social studies)
The Year After the Riots: American Responses to the Palestine Crisis of 1929-1930 (1988, international affairs)
Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality (1992, religion)
Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (1999, biography)
The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948 (2003, history)


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