Cohen, Martin A. (Personal Name)

Usque, S. Consolation for the tribulations of Israel, 1965, c1964.

Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 2/10/28)

Sephardim in the Americas, 1992: page 455 (Martin A. Cohen is Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. He has also taught at Antioch College, Temple University, and Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is a past president of the American Society of Sephardic Studies and Chairman of the Board of the Jewish Historical Society of New York. He served as the editor of three major sections on Sephardica for the Encyclopaedia Judaica and contributed numerous articles on the subject. Author of The martyr, on the Mexican Inquisition, the translation from the Portuguese of Samuel Usque's Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel, and The canonization of a myth, on the Portuguese Inquisition.)

HUC-JIR website, viewed November 17, 2016 (Martin A. Cohen, Rabbi, Ph.D. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1928, Rabbi Cohen attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his bachelor's degree (1946) and master's degree in Romance Languages (1949). He taught as an instructor in Romance Languages for four years at the University of Pennsylvania (1946-1950) and one year at Rutgers University (1950-1951) before entering the United States Air Force in 1951. He enrolled at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1953, was ordained in 1957 and received his Ph.D. in Jewish History in 1960. He began teaching at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1955, part time, and from 1960, as a full time member of its faculty, serving in Cincinnati until 1962. In 1962, he joined the faculty in New York. Has served in various communities as rabbi and chaplain.) http://huc.edu/directory/martin-cohen