List of Writings by
Werner Cohn
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
University of British Columbia
(* marks the more important items)
1950
"Zionist Youth Movements in
America," Student Zionist, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-7.
1954
* Jehovah's Witnesses as a
Proletarian Sect. MA Thesis, New School for Social Research
1955
Review of "Jehovah's
Witnesses, The New World Society," by Marley Cole, The New Leader, vol.
38, no. 41, pp. 24-6.
Review of "For Zion's Sake:
A Biography of Judah L. Magnes, by Norman Bentwich, Chicago Jewish Forum, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 68-9.
Review of "Scapegoat of
Revolution, by Judd L. Teller, Chicago Jewish Forum, vol. 14, no. 2, pp.
129-30.
* "Jehovah's Witnesses as a
Proletarian Movement," American Scholar, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 281-98.
(Reprinted in American Scholar Reader, ed. by Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders,
N.Y. Atheneum, 1960).
1956
* The Political Alignments of
American Jews. PhD Dissertation, New School for Social
Research. (Available
from UMI Dissertation Services, publication number AAT 9953713)
"Jehovah's Witnesses and
Racial Prejudice," Crisis, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 5-9.
Review of "The Political
Behavior of American Jews," by Lawrence H. Fuchs, Commentary, vol. 22, no.
3, pp. 284-6.
"Jesuits and Jews,"
Chicago Jewish Forum, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 158-63.
Review of "Billy Sunday Was
His Real Name," by William McLoughlin, Jr.,
Chicago Jewish Forum, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 188-9.
Review of "The Bridge, A
Yearbook of Judaeo-Christian Studies," by J. M. Oesterreicher, ed., Chicago Jewish Forum, vol. 15, no. 2,
pp. 134-5.
1957
Review of "Taboo," by
Franz Steiner, American Sociological Review, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 132.
Review of "The Doukhobors of British Columbia," by Harry B. Hawthorn,
ed., Chicago Jewish Forum, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 192-3.
Review of "The Fight for
Fluoridation," by Donald McNeil, Commentary, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 280-2.
Review of "St. Ignatius
Loyola," by James Brodrick, Commentary, vol. 23,
no. 3, pp. 298-300.
1958
* "Social Stratification
and the Charismatic," Midwest Sociologist, vo. 21, no. 1, pp. 12-8.
Review of "Christianity and
Anti-Semitism," by Nicholas Berdyaev, Midwest Sociologist, vol. 20, no. 2,
pp. 118-9.
* "The Politics of American
Jews," in The Jews, Social Patterns of an American Group, M. Sklare, ed., Free Press, pp. 614-26.
1959
"On the Language of Lower-Class
Children," School Review, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 435-40. (Reprinted in 1) Education
and Social Crisis, ed. by E. T. Keach, et al., 1967;
2) as Reprint CON-A, Selected Academic Readings).
* "Jewish Political
Attitudes -- Their Background," Judaism, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 312-22.
"American
Catholicism Today," (review article), Commentary, vol. 27, no. 2, pp.
173-6.
1960
"Social Status and the
Ambivalence Hypothesis: Some Critical Notes and a Suggestion," American
Sociological Review, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 508-13. (Reprinted in Social
Stratification in the United States, ed. by Roach, Gross, and Gurrslin, Prentice-Hall, 1969).
1962
"Is Religion Universal ? Problems of Definition," Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 25-33. (Also published in
German translation in International Yearbook for the Sociology of Religion, vo.
2, 1966).
1963
Review of "A Razor for a
Goat: Problems in the History of Witchcraft and Diabolism," by Elliott
Rose, Canadian Literature, no. 16, pp. 80-1.
Review of "Die Lotus-Lehre und die modernen Religionen in Japan," by Werner Kohler, Pacific
Affairs, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 312-3.
1964
Review of "German
Catholicism and Hitler's Wars," by Gordon Zahn, Sociological Quarterly, Fall.
* "What is Religion ? An Analysis for Cross-Cultural Comparison,"
Journal of Christian Education, nos. 2-3, pp. 116-38.
1966
Review of "European Social
Class: Stability and Change," ed. by Bernard Barber and Elinor G. Barber, Social Forces, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 432-3.
1967
"Publication and Due
Process," CAUT Bulletin, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 44-52.
"'Religion' in Non-Western Cultures ?," American Anthropologist, vol. 69, no. 1,
pp. 73-6.
"Research Note: A Movie of Experimentally-Produced Glossolalia," Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 270. (Reports on a movie
produced by W. Cohn which is available for loan
through the Audio-Visual Services at the University of British Columbia.)
1968
"Personality,
Pentecostalism, and Glossolalia: A Research Note on Some Unsuccessful
Research," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 5, no. 1,
pp. 36-9.
Review of "System, Change
and Conflict," by N. J. Demerath and R. A.
Peterson, eds., Social Forces, vol. 47, no. 2, pp.
244-5.
1969
"On the Problem of Religion
in Non-Western Cultures," International Yearbook for the Sociology of
Religion, vol. 5, pp. 7-19.
* "Some Comparisons Between
Gyspy (North American rom) and American English
Kinship Terms," American Anthropologist, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 476-82.
Review of "Race
Relations," by Michael Banton, Current
Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 2-3, p. 203.
1970
* "La persistance
d'un group paria relativement
stable: quelques reflexions
sur les tsiganes nord-américains," Etudes Tsiganes,
vol. 16, nos. 2-3, pp. 3-23.
1971
Review of "Japan's
Invisible Race: Caste in Culture and Personality," by George DeVos and Hiroshi Wagatsuma,
Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, vol. 50, no. 3-4, pp. 157-8.
1972
"Marko and Moso, A Gypsy Tale from Canada told by Biga,"
Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, vol. 51, nos. 1-2, pp. 13-27. German
translation (partial) in Zigeunermärchen aus aller Welt, Erste Sammlung, Heinz Mode, ed., Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1983, pp. 156-61.
1973
1974
1976
Review of "Gypsy Politics
and Social Change," by Thomas Acton, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 5, no.
1, p. 56
* "Jewish Outmarriage and Anomie: A Study in the Canadian Syndrome of
Polarities," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 13, no.
1, pp. 90-105. (Reprinted in People, Power and Process, A
Reader, ed. by Alexander Himelfarb and C. James
Richardson, Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980, pp. 35-52).
1977
"Human Rights in
China," (correspondence), New York Review of Books, vol. XXIV, no. 16,
October 13, pp. 45-6.
"Concerning 'Impressions of
Agricultural Development in a North China County,'" (correspondence),
Pacific Affairs, vol. 50, no. 4, Winter 1977-8, pp. 680-1.
1978
Review of
"Mao Tse-tung in the Scales of History," ed.
by Dick Wilson (review article), Worldview, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 53-5.
"On Inequality in
Canada," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 15, no. 3,
pp. 399-401.
1979
* "Participation in
China," Problems of Communism," vol. XXVIII, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb.), pp.
75-9.
"Has China Failed ?," (correspondence), New York Review of Books,
vol. XXVI, no. 12, (July 19), p. 44.
Review of
"The Kalderas in Eastern Canada," by Matt
and Sheila Salo, Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol XI, no. 1, pp. 182-4.
* "English and French
Canadian Public Opinion on Jews and Israel: Some Poll Data," Canadian
Ethnic Studies, vol. XI, no. 2 (1979), pp. 31-48.
1980
* "Perspectives on
Communist Totalitarianism," (review article), Problems of Communism, XXIX,
no. 5 (Sept. - Oct 1980), pp. 68-73.
* "Equivocation in the Study of
Totalitarianism," Survey, vol. 25, no. 3 (112), Summer
1980, pp. 179-88.
1981
1982
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1983
"The Name
Changers," Forum, No. 50 (Winter 1983/4), pp. 65-71.
1984
"What's in a Name: A
Comment on Himmelfarb, Loar,
and Mott," Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 48, pp. 660-5.
1985
"'The View from Inside'" (correspondence; review of
"The View from Inside: A French Communist Cell in Crisis" by Jane
Jenson and George Ross) Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 27, 1985, p. 1063.
1986
"Not a friend left,"
(op-ed piece), The Sun, February 15, 1986, p. A6. (A brief
presentation of data from the BC Studies article below).
1988
* The Hidden Alliances of Noam
Chomsky, New York, Americans for a Safe Israel. (see
below, Partners in Hate, 1995)
"The Hidden Alliances of
Noam Chomsky," (in Hebrew), Nativ, vol. 1, no. 5
(November) pp. 29-35. Note: This is a partial Hebrew translation of the
pamphlet shown above.
1991
"Truth in Genealogy,"
Search, vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 4-5
1993
1993 Proposal to participants in
CREF
"The
Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky," in With Friends Like These, Edward
Alexander, editor, S.P.I. Books, New York, pp. 99-130. Note: This is an abbreviated version of
the 1988 publication by the same name.
"Private Stacks, Public
Funding," American Libraries, vol. 24, no 2, February 1993, pp. 182-184.
1994
1994 Proposal to Participants in
CREF
1995
"Taxes Not Paid by Witnesses Cost
City $10 Million a Year," Brookly Heights Press,
June 1
1996
Cooper Union and the Chrysler Building (unpublished discussion paper).
1999
Misconduct of
Camp Ramah Officials.
(Submission to Jewish Theological Seminary)
2000
2005
"When the Constitution Fails on
Church and State: Two Case Studies," 6 Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion.
1.2
Early Companions. A Novella. iUniverse.
Review of "L'étoile touge de David. Les Juifs communistes in
France," by Jacques Frémontier. American
Communist History, vol. 4 no. 2, December, pp. 267-270.
2007
"Cikani:
Pribuzenska terminologie a cena za nevestu,"
in Cikanska Rodina,
ed. by L. Budilova & M. Jakoubek,
Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni, Czech Republic. An abridged, Czech
version of The Gypsies (1973).
2009
Cikáni, Sociologické nakladatelství
(SLON). Complete Czech version of The
Gypsies (1973), with a new introduction
Updated to July 2009
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