Peter-Adrian Cohen (also known as Peter Cohen) (16.11.1939 † 07.03.2016) was an

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

writer. He grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, and lived in Boston.

Career

While studying at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

Cohen wrote the 1973 best-seller, ''The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School.'' It is a "sophisticated" and "negative" look at the Business School. He is the author of ''

To Pay the Price ''To Pay the Price'' is a 2009 play by Peter-Adrian Cohen based in part on the letters of Israeli hero Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed in action during Operation Entebbe at Entebbe airport, by Ugandan soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued ...

'', a play about

Yonatan Netanyahu Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu ( he, יונתן נתניהו; March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) was an American-born Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer who commanded the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal during Operation Entebbe, an operation to rescu ...

, and ''" Verstehn Sie Mich, Herr Goldfarb" (Do You Understand Me, Herr Goldfarb?"'', a play.In Berlin, stories of the shtetl; Giving voice to a culture of unique appeal, Yiddish theater thrives, thanks partly to a Protestant minister. Los Angeles Times, Julia M. Klein, Oct 10, 2004

Plays

* "Why Worry?" * The Court Jew * A Ship to Zion * Verstehn Sie mich, Herr Goldfarb? – Do You Understand Me, Mr. Goldfarb? * Im Namen Gottes (In the Name of God), scenic reading, about 9/11. First given in Zürich, Sept. 10, 2011 and then Sept. 11 in Bonn (Germany) and Cambridge (MA).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Peter-Adrian American dramatists and playwrights