Richard I. Cohen

Richard I. Cohen also known as Richard Yerachmiel Cohen is a professor of history, presently holding the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in the history of Jews in Western and Central Europe in the modern period, in particular the Jews of France, art history, Jewish historiography, and The Holocaust.

Early life Cohen was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Cohen completed his undergraduate History and Sociology degree at McGill University in 1967. he produced this work in the course of a 15-year collaboration with fellow Hebrew University historian Ezra Mendelsohn (1940–2015) in efforts to encourage research on the arts and modern Jewish society.

Selected bibliography (co-author: Judith Carp)

(co-author: Susan Tumarkin Goodman) (co-author: Jeremy Cohen)