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Selma Jeanne Cohen

Date of Birth 18-September-1920
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Selma Cohen, Selma Jeanne Cohen
Profession Historian
Selma Jeanne Cohen was a dance historian, editor, and teacher who devoted her career to advocating dance as an art worthy of the same scholarly respect traditionally awarded to painting, music, and literature. She edited the six-volume International Encyclopedia of Dance, completed in 1998. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was a dance critic for the New York Times and the Saturday Review. She also wrote and edited several books and taught at many colleges, including the University of Chicago. She died of Alzheimer’s disease in Greenwich Village, New York on December 23, 2005, aged 85. Cohen was the niece of Benjamin V. Cohen, a key figure in the administrations of United States Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

Awards by Selma Jeanne Cohen

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