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
* "Mariage chez les rom nord-américains:
quelques conséquences du 'prix de la mariée," Etudes Tsiganes, vol. 18,
no. 2-3, pp. 4-11.
"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
"Some Weaknesses in the Jewish Community
of Vancouver," Jewish Western Bulletin, April 26, pp. 2, ff.
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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