Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameDr. Barbara COHEN 
Birth18 Nov 1910, Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death21 Oct 2008, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Vic Australia
Birth18 Nov 1910, Armadale, Victoria, Australia
Birth18 Nov 1910, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1063
Death21 Oct 2008, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
FatherHon Harold Edward COHEN (1881-1946)
MotherFreda PIRANI (1886-1969)
Spouses
Birth25 Apr 1906, Kantstrasse 124, Charlottenberg, Berlin, Germany
Death11 Oct 1991, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Birth1906, Berlin, Germany
Death11 Oct 1991, Chapel Hill, Florida, USA
FatherDr Fritz FALK (1873-1957)
MotherCharlotte Betty CASSIRER (1886-1972)
Marriage1936, Oxford, England
Divorce1959, Melbourne, Australia
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See also Notes, Not for publication.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.
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See also Notes, Not for publication.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.
Notes for Dr. Barbara COHEN
Barbara wrote a book entitled "No Other Home" which tells the story of several of her ancestors including the Cohen Family.
Notes for Dr. Barbara COHEN
Dr Barbara Cohen or Falk, wrote a number of books covering life of theJewish Community both in Melbourne as well as the rest of Australia.Educated at Lauriston Girls School and Melbourne University beforegoing onto Oxford and Yale. She was Principal of Mercer House ateacher training College and in 1968 became founding Director of TheCentre for the Study of Higherr Education at Melbourne University.