Correspondence with Cohn, Josef

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/284
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109588
Dates
16 Mar 1959 - 26 Aug 1961
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Dr. Joseph Cohn (1904-1986) was a Jewish-German political scientist. He had emigrated to England in 1933, and to Palestine in 1935. Later he became secretary of Chaim Weizmann and co-founder of the Weizmann Institute in Israel. See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 59.

Scope and Content

Beside the sending of information material the correspondence deals with an enquiry on West German right-wing journalist Giselher Wirsing, and a potential visit of The Wiener Library by West German politician Friedrich Jantz.

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People

  • Cohn, Joseph
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