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Werner Cahnman

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Werner Cahnman · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Sociologist of ethnicity and historical sociology

When

1902, Munich, Germany — 1980, Forest Hills, New York, United States

Where

Germany · United States

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Biography

Werner Cahnman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Sociologist of ethnicity and historical sociology

How & why

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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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology

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Sociologist of ethnicity and historical sociology

1902

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology