Arthur A. Cohen

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Arthur Allen Cohen (1928-1986) was an important American Jewish scholar, theologian and author.

Cohen wrote The Natural and the Supernatural Jew (1962), tracing the history of Jewish theology from the late 15th century, through the German Jewish renaissance, and into what he saw as a hopeful yet troubled American Jewish scene. "Whether the Jewish genius for religion will display the tensility, urgency, and creativity to make of American Judaism something more than a boring legacy of conservation remains to be seen." (p.178)

Cohen edited a popular reader on Jewish thought (Arguments and Doctrines) and wrote several novels, including In the Days of Simon Stern, Acts of Theft, The Carpenter Years and An Admirable Woman. He also collected rare books, founded a press, and served as an editor for several others.^[1]

[edit] Selected works

• The tremendum: A theological interpretation of the Holocaust
• The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and Other Dissenting Essays (1969)
• Martin Buber: Studies in modern European literature and thought
• Edited with Paul Mendes-Flohr, Contemporary Jewish religious thought: original essays on critical concepts, movements, and beliefs.

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Persondata
NAME	Cohen, Athur Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American Jewish scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	United States
DATE OF DEATH	1986
PLACE OF DEATH	United States