Кон, Вернер

Вернер Кон (англ. Werner Cohn; род. 1926, Берлин, Германия) — канадский социолог, специалист по политической социологии. Получил известность как исследователь политической истории евреев и культуры цыган.

Биография

В 1951 году получил бакалавра наук по социологии в Городском колледже Нью-Йорка.

В 1954 году получил степень магистра гуманитарных наук, защитив в Новой школе социальных исследований диссертацию по теме «Свидетели Иеговы как пролетарская секта» (англ. Jehovah's Witnesses as a Proletarian Sect). А. Л. Дворкин отмечал, что в этой работе Кон, проанализировав вероучительную литературу свидетелей Иеговы, установил связь их теологии с высокими показателями криминальности в их же среде, и пришёл к выводу, что «насилие, которое они изображают как совершаемое другими, в большей степени является проекцией их собственных импульсов».

В 1956 году в Новой школе социальных исследований получил степень доктора философии, защитив диссертацию по теме «Политические расклады американского еврейства» (англ. The Political Alignments of American Jews).

В 1960—1986 годах — профессор кафедры антропологии и социологии Университета Британской Колумбии. В настоящее время профессор-эмерит.

Научная деятельность

Кон сосредоточил свою исследовательскую деятельность вокруг социологического изучения еврейского и других малых политических движений.

Кроме этого, он проявлял большой интерес к цыганам, которых впервые увидел в 1966-1967 годах во время отдыха во Франции. В дальнейшем он вернулся в Европу для изучения цыганской культуры и языка. Здесь он установил тесные связи с учёными цыганского происхождения, что переросло в плодотворное сотрудничество, вылившееся в множество статей в научных журналах и выпуску в 1973 году обширной монографии, где были обобщены итоги многолетних полевых исследований.

Научные труды

Монографии

• Werner Cohn. Partners in Hate: Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers. — Avukah Press. — ISBN 978-0-9645897-0-4.
• Werner Cohn. The Gypsies. — Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. — ISBN 978-0-201-11362-4.
• Werner Cohn. Early Companions. — iUniverse.

Статьи

• Cohn W. Zionist Youth Movements in America, Student Zionist, 1950, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-27
• Cohn W. Jehovah's Witnesses as a Proletarian Movement American Scholar, 1955, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 281-298. (перепечатана в American Scholar Reader, ed. by Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders, N.Y. Atheneum, 1960).
• Cohn W. Jehovah's Witnesses and Racial Prejudice, Crisis, 1956, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 5-9.
• Cohn W. Jesuits and Jews, Chicago Jewish Forum, 1956, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 158-63.
• Cohn W. Social Stratification and the Charismatic, Midwest Sociologist, 1958, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 12-8.
• Cohn W. The Politics of American Jews, in The Jews, Social Patterns of an American Group, M. Sklare, ed., Free Press, 1958, pp. 614-626.
• Cohn W. On the Language of Lower-Class Children, School Review, 1959, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 435-40. (Reprinted in 1) Education and Social Crisis, ed. by E. T. Keach, et al., 1967; 2) as Reprint CON-A, Selected Academic Readings).
• Cohn W. Jewish Political Attitudes -- Their Background," Judaism, 1959, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 312-322.
• Cohn W. Social Status and the Ambivalence Hypothesis: Some Critical Notes and a Suggestion, American Sociological Review, 1960, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 508-513. (Reprinted in Social Stratification in the United States, ed. by Roach, Gross, and Gurrslin, Prentice-Hall, 1969).
• Cohn W. Is Religion Universal ? Problems of Definition, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1962, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 25-33. (Also published in German translation in International Yearbook for the Sociology of Religion, vo. 2, 1966).
• Cohn W. "What is Religion ? An Analysis for Cross-Cultural Comparison," Journal of Christian Education, 1964, no. 2-3, pp. 116-138.
• Cohn W. Publication and Due Process," CAUT Bulletin, 1967, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 44-52.
• Cohn W. "'Religion' in Non-Western Cultures ?," American Anthropologist, 1967, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 73-76.
• Cohn W. "Research Note: A Movie of Experimentally-Produced Glossolalia," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1967, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 270. (Reports on a movie produced by W. Cohn which is available for loan through the Audio-Visual Services at the University of British Columbia.)
• Cohn W. Personality, Pentecostalism, and Glossolalia: A Research Note on Some Unsuccessful Research," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 1968, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 36-39.
• Cohn W. "On the Problem of Religion in Non-Western Cultures," International Yearbook for the Sociology of Religion, 1969, vol. 5, pp. 7-19.
• Cohn W. "Some Comparisons Between Gyspy (North American rom) and American English Kinship Terms," American Anthropologist, 1969, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 476-482.
• Cohn W. La persistance d'un group paria relativement stable: quelques reflexions sur les tsiganes nord-amricains Etudes Tsiganes, 1970, vol. 16, nos. 2-3, pp. 3-23.
• Cohn W. "Mariage chez les rom nord-amricains: quelques consquences du 'prix de la marie," Etudes Tsiganes, 1972, vol. 18, no. 2-3, pp. 4-11.
• Cohn W. "Marko and Moso, A Gypsy Tale from Canada told by Biga", Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 1972, vol. 51, nos. 1-2, pp. 13-27. German translation (partial) in Zigeunermrchen aus aller Welt, Erste Sammlung, Heinz Mode, ed., Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1983, pp. 156-61.
• Cohn W. "Some Weaknesses in the Jewish Community of Vancouver," Jewish Western Bulletin, April 26, 1974, pp. 2, ff.
• Cohn W. "Jewish Outmarriage and Anomie: A Study in the Canadian Syndrome of Polarities," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 1976, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 90-105. (Reprinted in People, Power and Process, A Reader, ed. by Alexander Himelfarb and C. James Richardson, Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980, pp. 35-52).
• Cohn W. "Human Rights in China," (correspondence), New York Review of Books, 1977, vol. XXIV, no. 16, October 13, pp. 45-6.
• Cohn W. "Concerning 'Impressions of Agricultural Development in a North China County,'" (correspondence), Pacific Affairs, 1977, vol. 50, no. 4, Winter 1977-1978, pp. 680-1.
• Cohn W. On Inequality in Canada," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 1978, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 399-401.
• Cohn W. Participation in China," Problems of Communism," 1979, vol. XXVIII, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb.), pp. 75-79.
• Cohn W. "Has China Failed ?," (correspondence), New York Review of Books, 1979, vol. XXVI, no. 12, (July 19), p. 44.
• Cohn W. Review of "The Kalderas in Eastern Canada," by Matt and Sheila Salo, Canadian Ethnic Studies, 1979, vol XI, no. 1, pp. 182-184.
• Cohn W. "English and French Canadian Public Opinion on Jews and Israel: Some Poll Data," Canadian Ethnic Studies, 1979, vol. XI, no. 2 (1979), pp. 31-48.
• Cohn W. "Equivocation in the Study of Totalitarianism," Survey, 1980, vol. 25, no. 3 (112), Summer 1980, pp. 179-188.
• Cohn W. "The Aryans of Jean-Paul Sartre: Totalitarian Categories in Western Writing," Encounter, vol. LVII, no. 6 (Dec. 1981), pp. 86-91.
• Cohn W. "The Name Changers," Forum, No. 50 (Winter 1983/4), pp. 65-71.
• Cohn W. "What's in a Name: A Comment on Himmelfarb, Loar, and Mott," Public Opinion Quarterly, 1984, vol. 48, pp. 660-5.
• Cohn W. "'A Clear Provocation': Esoteric Elements in Communist Language," Encounter, vol. LXIV, no. 5 (May), pp. 75-78.
• Cohn W. "The Persecution of Japanese Canadians and the Political Left in British Columbia, December 1941 - March 1942," B.C. Studies, No. 68, Winter 1985-1986, pp. 3-22.
• Cohn W. The Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky, New York, Americansfor a Safe Israel. (see below, Partners in Hate, 1995)
• Cohn W. "Bearers of a Common Fate ? The 'Non-Aryan Christian' Fate-Comrades of the Paulus-Bund, 1933-1939," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 1988, volume XXXIII, pp. 327-366.
• Cohn W. "The Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky," (in Hebrew), Nativ, 1988, vol. 1, no. 5 (November) pp. 29-35. Note: This is a partial Hebrew translation of the pamphlet shown above.
• Cohn W. "From Victim to Shylock and Oppressor: The New Image of the Jew in the Trotskyist Movement," Journal of Communist Studies, 1991, vol. 7, no. 1, March, pp. 45-67.
• Cohn W. "Truth in Genealogy," Search, 1991, vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 4-5
• Cohn W. The Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky," in With Friends Like These, Edward Alexander, editor, S.P.I. Books, New York, pp. 99-130. Note: This is an abbreviated version of the 1988 publication by the same name.
• Cohn W. "Private Stacks, Public Funding," American Libraries, vol. 24, no 2, February 1993, pp. 182-184.
• Cohn W. "The Myth of Gypsy Nationalism," (communication) Nationalities Papers, 1993, vol. XXI, no. 2 (Fall 1993), pp. 281-286.
• Cohn W. "When the Constitution Fails on Church and State: Two Case Studies," 6 Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. 1.2