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Sigmund A. Cohn / Suzanne Lewy Cohn Collection 1837-1997
No full textThe collection consists predominantly of correspondence between Sigmund A. Cohn and his parents, his letters to various public and private agencies in an unsuccesful attempt to get his parents out of Germany as well as correspondence related to obtain restitution. Included in the collection are genealogical papers, autobiographies of various family members, and documents related to Sigmund A. Cohn's studies and work.Sigmund Albert Cohn (June 6, 1898 - March 14, 1997), Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, was born in Breslau, Germany. He studied law and economics at the University of Breslau, where he was awarded the law degree 'magna cum laude' in 1921. After serving his legal apprenticeship he joined the Department of Justice in Berlin and was appointed as a lifetime judge in 1921. He married Suzanne Lewy (born November 23, 1902, Breslau, died August 1987, Athens, Georgia) in 1925. In 1933 he was ousted from his position, when Hitler's racial decrees removed Jewish public servants. Therefore the Cohn family emigrated to Genoa, Italy, where Sigmund Cohn earned a doctor of jurisprudence with high honors in 1934. Subsequently he affiliated with a law practice and became an assistant to the chair of economics at the University of Genoa. The Cohn family was forced to emigrate again, when Mussolini, having joined with the Axis, instituted Hitler's racial decrees in Italy. Knowing the obstacles to obtaining a visa to enter the United States, Sigmund Cohn initially obtained visas enabling his family to emigrate to Colombia, South America or Costa Rica. At the same time he applied to numerous American colleges and universities for a teaching position which, if secured, would enable immigration to the US outside of the strictures of American immigration laws. He succeeded in obtaining an assistant professorship in languages at the University of Georgia. 1939 Sigmund Cohn came to Athens, Georgia, with his wife Susan and his two daughters, Eva and Marianne. Sigmund Cohn taught Italian, German, and Spanish courses at the University of Georgia until 1944, when he became an assistant professor at the law school.He became a full professor in 1947. He taught a variety of commercial law courses and initiated courses in international law. Along with Prof. Robert Leavell, Dr. Cohn played a central role in the recodification of Georgia's corporations law in the 1960s. He retired in 1964. In the early 1930s Sigmund Cohn co-authored two German books commenting on aspects of German law. He was the author of numerous book reviews and articles published in American law journals.List of documents in file (provided by donor)Photographs removed to Photograph Collectiondigitize
A. Cohn letter to KJV Präsidium.
No full text1983 letter from A. Cohn to "Herr Bundesbruder" describing Oskar Cohn, Zionist and German politician until 1933.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Joseph Cohn Family Collection, Rawitsch 1828-1877
No full textPrussian government documents issued to family members, 1828-1877Item 1: Passport for Joseph Cohn, Rawicz; 1850Item 2: Certificate for Joseph Cohn, honorary member of a veterans’ organization, Wiesbaden; 1873Item 3: Citizenship paper for Salomon Cohn, Rawicz; 1836Item 4: Naturalization paper for Samuel Cohn, Rawicz; 1834Item 5: Certificate of ‘Commissions-Rath’ (honorary title for merchants) for Joseph Cohn, Rawicz; 1877Item 6: Quartierliste (list of barracks), Breslau; 1828Digital imagedigitize
Cohn\u27s Window
No full textImage shows a Cohn\u27s display window.This photo included in both the Shipler and Classified photo collections
Rudolf Cohn Collection 1886-1971
No full textThe collection contains some personal documents of and official correspondence to Rudolf Cohn, but is mainly composed of published and unpublished manuscripts.Born in Schneidemühl (now Pila, Poland) on April 23, 1862, Cohn studied medicine, receiving his doctorate at the University of Königsberg in 1886. He was a lecturer and assistant professor at Königsberg, specializing in pharmacology and physiological chemistry, and also continued in private medical practice. Cohn emigrated to Palestine in 1933 and died there in 1938.The original 4-page German language inventory is available in folder 1.Processed for digitizationdigitize
Ludwig Cohn Collection undated, 1946-1955
No full textThe collection contains letters from Ludwig Cohn to his friends C. B. and Sabine Schipper, which are typed and signed by him; an invitation to a lecture given by Cohn;
and an ex libris.Ludwig Cohn was born in 1877 in Breslau. He became blind when he was seven years old. After attending a school for the blind, he went to Gymnasium in Breslau, studied
philosophy in Berlin and Breslau, and finished his PhD in philosophy in 1903. He later studied economy and law and finished a PhD in law in 1922 in Breslau. During World War I, he
worked for the Blindenfürsorge beim 6. Armeekorps. He taught at universities in Breslau, Vienna, Budapest, Lausanne, Geneva, Strassburg, Zurich. After 1933, he worked at the university
in Prague. In 1940, he fled to Amsterdam with his wife. Cohn died in 1962 in the Netherlands.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Linguistic Typology of Motion Events in Visual Narratives - Data and Publication
No full textLanguages use different strategies to encode motion. Some use particles or “satellites” to describe a path of motion (Satellite-framed or S-languages like English), while others typically use the main verb to convey the path information (Verb-framed or V-languages like French). We here ask: might this linguistic variation lead to differences in the way paths are depicted in visual narratives like comics? We analyzed a corpus of 85 comics originally created by speakers of S-languages (comics from the United States, China, Germany) and V-languages (France, Japan, Korea) for both their depictions of path segments (source, route, and goal) and the visual cues signaling these paths and manner information (e.g., motion lines and postures). Panels from S-languages depicted more path segments overall, especially routes, than those from V-languages, but panels from V-languages more often isolated path segments into their own panels. Additionally, comics from S-languages depicted more motion cues than those from V-languages, and this linguistic typology also interacted with panel framing. Despite these differences across typological groups, analysis of individual countries’ comics showed more nuanced variation than a simple S-V dichotomy. These findings suggest a possible influence of spoken language structure on depicting motion events in visual narratives and their sequencing
Ernst J. Cohn : Biography and Family Memoir
No full textAmong German Jewish refugees, my late father (1904–76) took an unusual path. Professor of Law at Breslau university aged 28, he was attacked from November 1932 by students who did not want German law taught by a Jew. After three months of intermittent rioting, the university suspended him eight weeks before the April 1933 law dismissing Jewish civil servants. In England from May 1933, he practiced as an expert in German law and qualified as a barrister. He stood guarantor for 14 family members who were saved from the fate of many others. After three wartime years in the Royal Artillery he was recruited to prepare for the occupation of Germany and the resetting of its legal system by SHAEF and the Foreign Office. Post-war he featured as expert witness in German, Swiss and international law, probably the only Jewish refugee to become a full-time barrister. He resumed his academic publications, which altogether numbered fourteen books and nearly 200 papers, was a frequent correspondent in The Times and Jewish Chronicle, and became honorary professor at Kings College London and Frankfurt (Main). Much in demand as a humorous lecturer in Jewish and wider circles, he was active in the World Jewish Congress (British Section), his Reform synagogue (of which he became president), and several Jewish cultural institutions. He was proud to be a conciliator between Germans and Jews, Zionists and non-Zionists, and Orthodox and Reform Jews
Michael Cohn Collection 1915-circa 1940
No full textThis collection primarily consists of World War I era postcards, some from Siegmund Cohn, World War I soldier, to
individuals in Germany. The remainder of the collection are postcards generally dating from World War I period, some written by other
individuals, and many blank. Besides Berlin, Leipzig appears as a common theme in this set of postcards. There is a very early Nazi
postcard, dated 1924, with a picture of child in Nazi uniform, on the back, period English handwriting states "Young Germany. The
badge on the arm is a sign of Arian determination to drive Semitism out of Europe." There are also photocopies of pictures of Siegmund
Cohn in uniform and in a hospital setting. Accompanying the postcards and pictures are assorted items: Prussian passport from 1922 for
Elisabeth Budach; coupon requesting help to rebuild the Leipziger Volkshaus after it burned in 1920; circa 1930s pamphlet entitled
"Ihr Ordinärer Antisemitismus."Processed for digitizatio
Werner Cohn Collection 1848-1980 Bulk dates: 1920-1975
No full textThe Werner Cohn Collection contains papers of members of the Cohn and related families. Documentation especially focuses on the family's experiences during the 1930s-1940s and the compensation for their losses during this period. The collection encompasses personal correspondence and papers, including official documents of family members, photographs, notes and notebooks, and a few newspaper clippings and other articles. About half the collection consists of restitution correspondence and documentation.Various materials pertaining to the Cohn Family from Berlin: recommendations; certificates, diplomas, report cards from father's study of medicine in Berlin; birth certificate; license to practice medicine in Ohio; eulogy by Rabbi Vogelstein at the death of Nauman Rosenbaum (Stettin, 1911); decree from the city of Stettin honoring Else Rosenbaum for her services with the Red Cross during WWI; Ex Libris plates; memorial book for Rabbi Sali Levi; menu and Tafellied from Ella Friedlaender and Nauman Rosenbaum's marriage; correspondence of Elsa Cohn-Rosenbaum with family members (1938-1942); correspondence regarding restitution; family treeLevi, Sali ; Friedlaender, EllaElse Rosenbaum was born on December 12, 1895 in Stettin, (then in Germany, now Szczecin, Poland), the daughter of the businessman Naumann Rosenbaum and Ella Rosenbaum née Friedländer. She had two sisters, Lotte (who married Arthur Perl) and Käthe (who married Alfred Hanff).Her father, Naumann Rosenbaum, owned the Naumann Rosenbaum Department Store in Stettin until his death in 1911. After his death his widow ran the store until it was “aryanized” by the Nazis. She later married Guido Rieß.In 1920, Else Rosenbaum married the physician James Cohn from Berlin, where the family later resided. They had a son, Werner, born in 1926. In October 1938 the Cohns immigrated to New York. James Cohn died in February 1940.In Europe, the Naumann Rosenbaum store in Stettin was bombed during an Allied attack on the city. Ella Rieß was deported; Else Cohn received official notification of her mother's death in 1945. Her sister Käthe and brother-in-law Alfred Hanff perished in the Majdanek concentration camp along with their son Hans-Jürg. The Hanffs’ other son Dietrich was sent to England, where he survived the war.In 1944 Else Cohn became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In New York City she worked as a nurse and eventually came to reside in the neighborhood of Washington Heights. Her son Werner went on to become a sociologist and taught at the University of British Columbia's Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Although many of his published works center on Roma culture (Gypsies), the subject for which he is best known, his writings also concern various other groups and topics, such as Zionists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Chinese culture and Catholics, among many others.Two other archival collections hold material on various family members: the Stettin, now Szczecin, Poland; Jewish Community Collection (AR 3790) and the James Cohn Collection (AR 6607).A booklet available in the LBI Library also contains material on Ella Rieß, grandmother of Werner Cohn: Gedenkblatt zum 25jaehrigen Amtsjubilaeum der Vorstandsmitglieder, Ella Riess, Else Dobrin [und] Clara Treuenfels; am 30 April 1928 (HQ 1172 I_78 A5).Processeddigitize
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