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Hans Kohn ({{lang-he| הַנְס כֹּהן, or קוהן}}, September 15, 1891 – March 16, 1971) was a Jewish-American philosopher and historian. He pioneered the academic study of nationalism, and is considered "the most influential theorist of nationalism" (John Hall, McGill University). BiographyBorn in Prague during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kohn was captured as a prisoner of war during World War I and held in Russia for five years. In the following years he lived in Paris and London working for Zionist organizations and writing. He moved to Palestine in 1925, but visited the United States frequently, eventually immigrating in 1934. Academic careerKohn taught modern history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. From 1948 to 1961, he taught at City College of New York. He also taught at the New School for Social Research, Harvard Summer School. He wrote numerous books on nationalism, Pan-Slavism, German thought, and Judaism. He was an early contributor to the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, where he died. In 1944 he published his major work The Idea of Nationalism about the dichotomy between Western and Eastern Nationalism. Kohn sought to understand the emergence of nationalism through the development of Western civilization and the rise of liberalism."[1] He also published a biography of Martin Buber. His autobiography, published in 1964, includes reflections on the times he lived through as his personal life. Zionist activismKohn was a prominent leader of Brit Shalom, which promoted a binational state in Palestine.[2] In 1929, Kohn wrote:" The means determine the goal. If lies and violence are the means, the results cannot be good. ... We have been in Palestine for twelve years [i.e. since the 1917 Balfour Declaration] without having even once made a serious attempt at seeking through negotiations the consent of the indigenous people. ... I believe that it will be possible for us to hold Palestine and continue to grow for a long time. This will be done first with British aid and then later with the help of our own bayonets -- shamefully called Haganah [defense] -- clearly because we have no faith in our own policy. But by that time we will not be able to do without the bayonets. The means will have determined the goal. Jewish Palestine will no longer have anything of that Zion for which I once put myself on the line.[3] Published works
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/from-the-margins-2018/programme/4--civic-vs--ethnic-/|title=Nations and Nationalism from the margins: A research agenda|last=James Kennedy (University of Edinburgh) and Maarten Van Ginderachter (Antwerp University)|first=|date=|website=University of Antwerp|access-date=17 November 2017}} 2. ^{{cite journal | author = Zohar Maor | title = Hans Kohn and the Dialectics of Colonialism: Insights on Nationalism and Colonialism from Within | journal = Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook | volume = 55 | issue = 1 | pages = 255–271 | doi=10.1093/lbyb/ybq038}} 3. ^Kohn's letter is quoted in Israeli Pacifist, The Life of Joseph Abileah, by Anthony G. Bing, with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, p. 69. Bing calls it "Kohn's letter of farewell to Zionism." 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/06Fall/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-11-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030071342/http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/06Fall/ |archivedate=2007-10-30 |df= }} Further reading
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