Person Sheet

Name Dr. Barbara COHEN  Birth 18 Nov 1910, Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 21 Oct 2008, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Vic Australia Birth 18 Nov 1910, Armadale, Victoria, Australia Father Hon Harold Edward COHEN (1881-1946) Mother Freda PIRANI (1886-1969)
Spouses
1 Prof. Werner (David) Ferdinand FALK  Birth 25 Apr 1906, Kantstrasse 124, Charlottenberg, Berlin, Germany Death 11 Oct 1991, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Education 1932 PhD Heidelberg University (summa cum laude) Father Dr Fritz FALK (~1875-1957) Mother Charlotte Betty CASSIRER (1886-1972)
Marriage 1936, Oxford, England Divorce
Children Anne Elisabeth (1939-) John Richard (1941-2007) James Edward (Jim) (1946-)
Notes for Dr. Barbara COHEN
For more about Barbara Falk, and her family history - in particular Cohen and Pirani - see Barbara Falk, "No Other Home: an Anglo-Jewish story 1833-1987", Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988. See also Notes, Not for publication. Barbara Falk (nee Cohen) was born in Melbourne in 1910 and was educated Lauriston Girl's School and the University of Melbourne before going on to further study at the London School of Economics, Oxford and Yale. She was principal of Mercer House, a teacher's training college, for several years and, in 1968, became founding director of the Centre for the study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. In 1981 she was appointed member of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs. Her publications inlcude The Asessment of Univesity Teaching in 1971 (with Kwong Lee Dow); Personal Identity in Multicultural Australia, 1978; Slogans, Policy and Practice in Multicultural Education, 1968 and "The Unpayable Debt", in Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan (eds), The Half-Open Door, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982. She has published three books: "No Other Home: An Anglo-Jewish Story 1833-1987", Penguin, Melbourne, 1988; "Caught in a Snare: Hitler's Refugee Academics 1933-1949", History Department, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 1998; and with Cecile Trioli, "DJ: Dorothy Jean Ross 1891-1982", Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000.
Misc. Notes
Barbara wrote a book entitled "No Other Home" which tells the story of several of her ancestors including the Cohen Family.