Yolande Cohen
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| Born | 1950 (age 75–76) Meknes, Morocco |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
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| Discipline | Historian |
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Yolande Cohen (born 1950) is a Moroccan-born Canadian historian and professor of contemporary history whose research focuses upon History of Youth and the History of Women. A Moroccan Sephardi, she also focuses on the History of Moroccan Jews.[1][2] In the 1990s, Cohen was a politician, the initial leader of the Coalition Démocratique–Montréal Écologique municipal political party and its candidate for mayor in the 1994 municipal election. Cohen is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada. Her awards include Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the National Order of Québec.
Career
Cohen was a lecturer in Rimouski, Quebec, in 1976.[4] In the same year, she worked as a history teacher at the Université du Québec in Montreal. She is involved in the founding of "Vélo Québec, du Regroupement des femmes du Québec et de Montréal écologique".[5] Cohen has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of California, Los Angeles, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Paris Nanterre University.[2]
She is the author of several academic works, including Les jeunes, le Socialisme et la guerre : Histoire des Mouvements de jeunesse en France; Femmes de parole. L’Histoire des Cercles de fermières du Québec; and Femmes philanthropes : Catholiques, Protestantes et Juives dans les Organisations caritatives au Québec.[2] Since its creation in February 2012, Cohen also occasionally writes for HuffPost, Quebec edition, publishing blog posts on various subjects.[6]
In 1994, Coalition démocratique de Montréal merged with Montréal Écologique to become the Coalition Démocratique–Montréal Écologique, a municipal political party that existed till 1998. Cohen was its initial leader and its candidate for mayor in the 1994 municipal election.[7][4] She was also a candidate for city council in the 1998 Montreal municipal election.
