Werner Cahnman
Werner Cahnman · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Sociologist of ethnicity and historical sociology
1902, Munich, Germany — 1980, Forest Hills, New York, United States
Germany · United States
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Werner Jacob Cahnman was a sociologist of ethnicity and historical sociology and a scholar of the sociology of the Jews, who taught at Rutgers and other American universities. In Germany he had led the Bavarian office of the Centralverein of German Jewry; arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Dachau, he escaped to the United States. He was Jewish.
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Sociologist of ethnicity and historical sociology
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