Kadmi Cohen

Who is Kadmi Cohen?

Kadmi Cohen was a French/Jewish writer. Born in 1892 in Łódź, he emigrated to Palestine, where he studied at Lyceum Herzliah in Tel Aviv. In 1914 he joined as volunteer French "Légion étrangère". In 1920 he was naturalized French due to his participation to the war. He was a lawyer and the founder of the Paris Union of young lawyers. In 1922 he discussed a dissertation in philosophy entitled "Introduction à l'histoire des institutions sociales et politiques chez les Sémites". Kadmi Cohen was activist in French Zionist mouvement and was a supporter of Vladimir Jabotinsky's Revisionism. He published a lot of articles on "Mercure de France", dealing with Jewish question and Zionism. In 1941 he was imprisoned at Compiègne, where he founded a group called Massada, in order to support the creation of a Jewish state. In 1942 he was released and he tried to keep in touch with Vichy's government, in order to accomplish his plan. At the beginning of 1944 he was arrested by Gestapo and deported to Gleiwitz, where he died in June 1944.