(Isaac) Kadmi Cohen (1892–1944) was a French writer. Born in 1892 inŁódź (Poland), he emigrated toPalestine, where he studied at Lyceum Herzliah inTel Aviv. In 1914 he joined as a volunteer in theFrench Foreign Legion. In 1920 he was naturalized French due to his participation in 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". He was an activist in the French Zionist mouvement and was a supporter ofVladimir Jabotinsky's Revisionism. He published numerous articles in "Mercure de France" dealing with Jewish matters andZionism.
He married a Frenchwoman, who converted to Judaism in the early 1920s. They had 3 children,Olivier Cohen-Steiner (1936-2019),Jean-François Steiner (*1938), andJosée Steiner (*1939).Jean-François Steiner became an author whose bookTreblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp helped to define the NaziHolocaust.
In 1941 Cohen was imprisoned atCompiègne, where he founded a group called Massada supporting the creation of a Jewish state. In 1942 he was released, and he tried to keep in touch with theVichy Government in order to accomplish his plan. At the beginning of 1944 he was arrested by theGestapo and deported toGleiwitz, one of many subcamps ofAuschwitz, where he died in June 1944.[1]
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