{{Short description|Russian anarchist (1878–1953)}} {{Use American English|date=May 2018}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Joseph Cohen | image = Joseph J Cohen.png | caption = Cohen in 1946 | birth_name = Joseph Jacob Kantorowitz | birth_date = {{birth date|1878|08|31|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{death year and age|1953|1878}} | death_place = New York | known_for = [[Mohegan Colony]], [[Stelton Colony]] | relatives = [[Joe Conason]] (grandson) }}
'''Joseph Jacob Cohen''' (born '''Joseph Jacob Kantorowitz'''; 31 August 1878 – 1953) was a Russian [[Anarchism|anarchist]] who cofounded and led the [[Stelton Colony|Stelton]] and [[Mohegan Colony|Mohegan]] [[intentional communities]] and edited the [[Yiddish]] anarchist periodical ''[[Fraye Arbeter Shtime]]''.
Cohen was born on 31 August 1878, in the [[Russian Empire]], in what is today [[Belarus]]. While young, he was pushed into [[Rabbinic Judaism|rabbinical studies]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NC_WEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA9&dq=%22jewish+anarchist+movement+in+america%22+cohen+kantorowitz+belarus&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22jewish%20anarchist%20movement%20in%20america%22%20cohen%20kantorowitz%20belarus&f=false|title=The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences|year=2024|orig-year=1945|publisher=AK Press|pages=9-10}}</ref> In 1903, he immigrated to the United States. He settled in [[Philadelphia]], where he became involved with the [[Jewish anarchism|Jewish anarchist]] movement.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shor |first=Francis |date=1986 |title=Cultural Identity and Americanization: The Life History of a Jewish Anarchist |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23539352 |journal=Biography |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=324–346 |issn=0162-4962}}</ref>
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==Further reading== {{refbegin}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Avrich |first1=Paul |author-link=Paul Avrich |chapter=Joseph Cohen |pages=179– |title=[[The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States]] |date=1980 |isbn=0-691-04669-7 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |location=Princeton |oclc=489692159 |df=mdy-all }} * {{Cite book |last1=Avrich |first1=Paul |author-link=Paul Avrich |title=[[Anarchist Portraits]] |chapter=Jewish Anarchism in the United States |pages=195 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hOd0-HITuhEC&pg=PA195 |date=1988 |isbn=0-691-04753-7 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |location=Princeton, N.J. |oclc=17727270 |df=mdy-all }}<!-- full chapter is 176–199 --> * {{Cite journal |last1=Shor |first1=Francis |title=Cultural Identity and Americanization: The Life History of a Jewish Anarchist |journal=[[Biography (journal)|Biography]] |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=324–346 |date=1986 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/371755/summary |language=en |doi=10.1353/bio.2010.0496 |s2cid=145005985 |issn=1529-1456 |via=[[Project MUSE]] |df=mdy-all |url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite book |last1=Sutton |first1=Robert P. |title=Modern American Communes: A Dictionary |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-313-32181-8 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |location=[[Westport, Connecticut]] |df=mdy-all |url=https://archive.org/details/modernamericanco00robe |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/modernamericanco00robe/page/32 32]–33 |chapter=Cohen, Joseph B. }} * {{Cite book |last1=Trahair |first1=R. C. S. |title=Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary |date=1999 |isbn=978-0-313-29465-5 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |location=[[Westport, Connecticut]] |df=mdy-all |url=https://archive.org/details/utopiasutopiansh0000trah_v9n1 |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/utopiasutopiansh0000trah_v9n1/page/79 79]–80 |chapter=Cohen, Joseph }} * {{Cite book |editor-last1=Zimmer |editor-first1=Kenyon |contributor-link=Kenyon Zimmer |contributor-last1=Zimmer |contributor-first1=Kenyon |last=Cohen |first=Jacob |translator-last1=Dolgoff |translator-first1=Esther |contribution=Joseph Jacob Cohen (1878–1953) and the Jewish Anarchism Movement |title=The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America: A Historical Review and Personal Reminiscences |pages=9–26 |date=2024 |language=English |isbn=978-1-84935-548-3 |publisher=AK Press |df=mdy-all }}
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==External links== * [http://www.yivoarchives.org/?p=collections/controlcard&id=34189 Personal papers] archived at [[YIVO]]
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