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Hans Kohn was born on September 15, 1891 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Solomon E. and Berta (Fischer) Kohn.
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Hans Kohn was born on September 15, 1891 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Solomon E. and Berta (Fischer) Kohn.
Kolvn studied at the University of Prague, where he came under the influence of Kantand Nietzsche. He was an active member of Bar Kochba, a Zionist student group. After earning his doctorate in jurisprudence in 1914, he joined the Czech regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army.
Captured by Russian forces, he was detained in camps in Samarkand and Siberia and there learned to speak Russian. He returned to Prague and in 1921 went to London where he joined the Independent Labour party led by Ramsay MacDonald, taking an active part in its affairs. He served as secretary to the Jewish delega-tion at the Paris Peace Conference, and from 1921 to 1925 was employed by the Keren Hayesod, the fund-raising arm of the World Zionist Organization. In 1928 he published A History of Nationalism in the East.
From 1925 to 1929 Kohn lived in Jerusalem, where he wrote books on the Middle East and served as correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Neue Züricher Zeitung. He returned to Europe and in 1933 moved to the United States, where he joined the faculty of Smith College, lecturing on modern European history and the intellectual history of modern Europe. In 1949 he was appointed professor of history at City College of New York, where he remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1962.
Kohn’s main work was The Idea of Nationalism (1944), a study of the development of nationalism and univcrsalism from ancient times to 1789. This was followed by The Age of Nationalism (1962) and Prelude to Nation States (1967). He was also the author of works on Martin Buber, Heinrich Heine, and Zionist ideology and politics, as well as the editor of Ahad Ha-Am’s National-
ism and the Jewish Ethic. He also translated into German Joseph Klausner’s History of Modern Hebrew Literature. His autobiography Living in a Modern World (1954) contains a list of his publications.
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In his writings and lectures, Kohn sought to mobilize world opinion against totalitarianism and during World War II he equated fascism with communism, telling his students that both Hitler and Stalin were gangsters. He was also an outspoken critic of American military involvement in Korea and expressed his doubts about the wisdom of rearming West Germany.
At first Kohn supported the idea of cultural Zionism but he became disenchanted with it in 1929, when he realized that the Arabs were not included in the plans for the Jewish homeland in Palestine.
