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Hans Kohn (Hebrew: הַנְס כֹּהן, or הנס קוהן‎, September 15, 1891 – March 16, 1971) was a Jewish philosopher and historian. Born in Prague during the Hapsburg Empire, he was captured as a prisoner of war during World War I and held in Russia for five years. In the following years he lived in Paris and London working for Zionist organizations and writing.

He moved to Palestine in 1925, but visited the United States frequently, eventually immigrating in 1934 to teach modern history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. From 1948 to 1961 he taught at City College of New York. He also taught at the New School for Social Research, Harvard Summer School.

He wrote numerous books and publications, primarily on the topics of nationalism, Pan-Slavism, German thought, and Judaism, and was an early contributor to the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he died.

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The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its Origins and Background, 1944
Pan-Slavism: Its History and Ideology, 1953
Nationalism: Its Meaning & History, 1955
Nationalism and Liberty: The Swiss Example, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1956
The Habsburg Empire, 1804–1918, 1961
Living in a World Revolution: My Encounters with History, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1964
Absolutism and Democracy 1814-1852, D. Van Nostrand, New Jersey, 1965