Norman Cohn

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Norman Rufus Colin Cohn, (born in London 12 January 1915) is a British academic, historian and writer, now Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex.

Born into a Jewish family in London, Cohn was educated at Gresham's School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a scholar and research student at Christ Church between 1933 and 1939, then served for six years in the British Army from 1939. After the war he taught in universities in England, Scotland, Ireland, America and Canada.

In 1966 he was appointed a Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex and became the director of a research project on the preconditions for persecutions and genocides. From 1973 to 1980, Cohn was Astor-Wolfson Professor at Sussex.

His work was honoured by his election as a Fellow of the British Academy.

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[edit] Books by Norman Cohn

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957)
Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (1970), a scholarly study on the myth of the Jewish world domination conspiracy, especially as evidenced in the fabricated The Protocols of the Elders of Zion document
Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom (revised edition 2000)
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith
Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (1996)

[edit] Essays

The Horns of Moses Commentary vol. 3 (September 1958)
The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy: A Case Study in Collective Psychopathology Commentary vol. 41 no. 6 (June 1966) 35
Monsters of Chaos Horizon: Magazine of the Arts no. 4 (1972) 42
Permanence de Millénarismes Le Contrat Social: revue historique et critique des faits et des idées vol. 6 no. 5 (September 1962) 289
Adamo: the Distinguished Savage The Twentieth Century vol. 155 (January 1954) 263
The Saint-Simonian Extravaganza The Twentieth Century vol. 154 (July 1953) 354
The Magus of the North The Twentieth Century vol. 153 (January 1953) 283
The Saint-Simonian Portent The Twentieth Century vol. 152 (July 1952)
How Time Acquired a Consummation Apocalypse Theory and the End of the World (1995) 21-37(compilation)