Werner Cohn (1926 – October 19, 2018) was a sociologist who wrote on the

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Romani people The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sig ...

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. He was a

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at the

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Biography

Born in Berlin,

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, Cohn received his BSS in Sociology from City College (New York) in 1951. He completed his MA (1954) and PhD (1956) at the New School for Social Research. He joined the

's Department of Anthropology and Sociology in 1960 and remained there until taking early retirement in 1986. Cohn's research focused on the sociology of Jews and small political movements, and he developed an interest in researching Romani people. He began his research on this topic in 1966/67 during a sabbatical in France. He continued with his studies of the Romani culture and language and returned to Europe meeting with Romani groups and with many well known scholars of the Romani. Over the years Cohn wrote numerous articles on the Romani in various scholarly journals and in 1973 he wrote ''The Gypsies'' which summarized his findings in the field. He died in Brooklyn, New York in 2018.

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Avukah Press, Cambridge 1926 births 2018 deaths Jewish Canadian writers Writers from Berlin Jewish Canadian sociologists German emigrants to Canada Canadian people of German-Jewish descent City College of New York alumni University of British Columbia faculty {{Canada-sociologist-stub