Mark Cohen
554 Blair Avenue, Piedmont, CA 94611
e-mail: markcohen12@hotmail.com
Books
Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943 (New York: Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 2003)
Articles
"The Suffering Joker in Jewish Fiction," Aug/Sept 1984, Midstream.
"Monastir: Oasis of Civilization, 1839-63." Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 24:2 (Fall 2000)
"Early Photographs of Albania and Macedonia by Josef Székely," History of Photography 27:2 (Summer 2003), 144-53.
“How the West Won: The Arrival of the Alliance Israélite Universelle to the Community of Monastir.” The Sephardi Report 1:1 (Spring 2004).
"Disaster and Change in an Ottoman Sephardic Community: Moses Montefiore and the Monastir Fire of 1863," Journal of Jewish Studies 55:1 (Spring 2004)
Other publications
“Allan Sherman.” Liner notes for Warner Brothers’ six-CD set My Son, The Box (forthcoming).
“Allan Sherman: A Different Kind of Jewish Music.” Heritage, publication of the American Jewish Historical Society (Fall 2004).
Features in the Contra Costa Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, New York Daily News.
Presented Papers
"Crisis and Change in an Ottoman Sephardic Community: Moses Montefiore and the Monastir Fire of 1863." Presented at the Sephardic Studies session of the AATSP (Am. Assn. of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) Conference on July 8, 2001.
"Searching for the New Eden: The Emigration of the Monastir Sephardim in the Early 20th Century." Presented at the Sephardic Temple of Cedarhurst, New York. October 15, 2003.
"How the West Won: The Victory of the Alliance Over the Talmud Torah in the Sephardic Community of Monastir." Presented at the Center for Jewish History. October 16, 2003.
October 17, 2003. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Selected Sephardic Folk Tales." Presented at the North Shore Towers Community Center, New York.
Nov. 5, 2003. "Writing My Lost Family History." Jewish Community Library, San Francisco.
March 3, 2004. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Sephardic Folk Tales." Berkeley/Richmond JCC.
March 9, 2004. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Sephardic Folk Tales." Contra Costa JCC, Walnut Creek, Calif..
March 23, 2004. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Sephardic Folk Tales.” Jewish Community Library, Los Angeles.
April 25, 2004. "The Destruction of the Sephardic Jews of Monastir." Stroum JCC, Seattle.
Aug. 19, 2004. "Writing My Lost Family History." Marin Osher JCC, San Raphael, Calif.
Oct. 8, 2004. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Sephardic Folk Tales." Osher Marin JCC, San Raphael, Calif.
Oct. 10, 2004. "The Unorthodox Lessons of Sephardic Folk Tales." Berkeley/Richmond JCC's, "Kol Sippur: A Festival of Jewish Storytelling."
Oct. 26, 2004. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Sephardic Folk Tales." California State University, Northridge.
Dec. 6, 2004. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Sephardic Folk Tales. " Jewish Community Agency, Sonoma County, Calif.
Jan. 27, 2005. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Sephardic Folk Tales.” Magnes Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
Feb. 9, 2005. “Giants of Assimilation: A Rogues’ Gallery of A Vanishing Jewish Type.” Berkeley/Richmond JCC.
March 3, 2005. "Long Live the King: Women in Power in Sephardic Folk Tales." MID Lecture Series, Temple Beth Sholom, San Leandro, Calif
Nov. 10, 2005. Indiana University. "How the West Won: The Victory of the Alliance Over the Talmud Torah in the Sephardic Community of Monastir."
Curator, “Monastir: A Sephardic Community in the Balkans.” Photographic exhibit. San Francisco Jewish Community Library. Nov. 5, 2003 – Jan. 18, 2004.
Curator, “Monastir: A Sephardic Community in the Balkans.” Photographic exhibit. Marin Osher JCC, San Raphael, Calif. August 10 – Sept. 10, 2004