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The Armenian Atrocities Committee (AAC) was founded in New York in September 1915 in order to initiate relief measures and organize support in light of the Armenian Genocide. It was founded on the initiative of Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856–1946) who served as the American ambassador in the Ottoman Empire between 1913 and 1916. Morgenthau used his position to unofficially coordinate the distribution of relief shipments from Constantinople. His initiative was a reaction to the international l…

Der Prager Historiker Hans Kohn (1891–1971) zählt zu den Begründern der modernen Nationalismusforschung. Berühmtheit erlangte sein Nationalismus-Konzept durch die später nach ihm benannte Kohn-Dichotomie: die Unterscheidung zwischen einem westlichen, staatsbürgerlich-institutionellen und einem östlichen, an ethnischer Zugehörigkeit orientierten Nationalismus. Lebens- und Werkgeschichte Kohns erstrecken sich vom Habsburgerreich über Palästina und den Orient bis in die Vereinigten Staaten. 1. Hans Kohn Hans Kohn, 1891 in Prag geboren…

Hans Kohn (1891–1971), the historian from Prague, was one of the founders of the modern academic study of nationalism. His concept of nationalism became famous thanks to the Kohn dichotomy later named after him: the distinction between Western, civic-institutional nationalism, and Eastern nationalism based on ethnic affiliation. The history of Kohn’s life and work extends from the Habsburg Empire to Palestine, the Middle East, and the United States. 1. Hans KohnHans Kohn, born in 1891 in Prague, came from an assimilated Bohemian Jewish family. Although he grew up …