Sarah Blacher Cohen
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Sarah Blacher Cohen (born 1936) is a writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years. Her area of specialty is Jewish American Fictions. Her published books include Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature, Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter (1974), and Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy. She edited From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen (Jewish Literature and Culture Series). Her plays include The Ladies Locker Room, a biopic on Molly Picon, Soul Sisters, as well as a musical review called Sophie, Totie & Belle. She has worked with Joanne Koch on a number of other plays. She collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer on the off-Broadway play Schlemiel the First. Dr. Cohen has also given talks and papers including "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers".
She presently resides in Albany, NY and is married to Dr. Gary Cohen.
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- Plays by Joanne Koch & Sarah Blacker
- Ezra Cappell (University of Texas, El Paso) "Sarah Blacher Cohen's Comic Drama of Disability" Jewish Women's Writing of the 1990s and Beyond - Abstract
- Comments from Dr. Cohen from a Philadelphia Inquirer article "Is 'Borat' Funny or a Hate Film?" Dr. Cohen's quoted in Nov 14, 2006 Philadelphia Inquirer article
