Oral history interview with William M. Cohen, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Jessica Kaplan, 1992. 1992.

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Oral history interview with William M. Cohen, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Jessica Kaplan, 1992. 1992.

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William Cohen, born in New York City in 1940, is a retired attorney, law professor, and one of the founders of a non-profit agency, Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry (BASJ). In this interview, recorded in 1992, Cohen describes his experience growing up in a Jewish family; study;ing and practicing law in the eastern United States; his teaching experience in the University of Colorado's Law School at Boulder; how he met his wife Sara-Jane and co-founded a law firm with her in Boulder. Cohen also talks about how his long-time interest in Human Rights Advocacy led him to establish BASJ in response to Boulder becoming a Sister City with Dushanbe, Tajikistan, in 1986. He expresses pessimism about anti-Semitic sentiments in the former Soviet Union, and shares his appreciation of living as a Jew in a tolerant community like Boulder.

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Cohen, William S. (William Sebastian), 1940-

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William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician, lawyer and author. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Maine's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979, as U.S. Senator from Maine from 1979 to 1997, and as Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. Born in Bangor, Maine, he attended public schools there, graduating from Bangor High School before earning a B.A. from Bowdoin College and an ...

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Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry (Boulder, Colo.)

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