Norman Cohn - Definition

Norman Cohn, also known as Norman Rufus Colin Cohn, (born 12 January 1915) is British academic, historian and writer, now Emeritus Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex. He was born into a Jewish family in London. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, serving for six years in the British Army from 1939. He then held a number of academic positions, before a first appointment at Sussex in 1963.

He wrote the following books:

• The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957)
• Warrant for Genocide (1970), a scholarly study on the myth of the Jewish global domination conspiracy, especially as evidenced in the fabricated The Protocols of the Elders of Zion document
• Europe's Inner Demons (1975)
• Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come