Yolande Cohen

Yolande Cohen
Born1950
Morocco
CitizenshipCanadian
Occupations
  • historian
  • professor
  • politician
Awards
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-discipline
  • History of youth
  • History of women
  • History of Moroccan Jews

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.

  1. ^ "Yolande Cohen". www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca. Ordre national du Québec. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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