Researching Rachael Kohn
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 57 people with the Kohn surname? In that year Kohn was ranked number 3522 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Rachael means "Form of RACHEL. an ewe" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Rachael Kohn on Ancestry
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| Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Kohn surname in the USA? Kohn is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Rachael Kohn
Rachael Kohn
Rachael Kohn (born 1953) is a Canadian-born Australian author and broadcaster who from July 1992 to December 2018 produced and presented programs on religion and spirituality for ABC Radio National, including The Religion Report, Religion Today, The Ark and, principally, The Spirit of Things from 1997 to Dececember 2018. Kohn retired from the ABC in December 2018.
Kohn has also produced many documentary features and New York Festival World Gold Medal award-winning features for Encounter, such as "In God We Trust: Civil and Uncivil Religion in America" (1999), "Coffee, Sex and Other Addictions: Health fads of the 19th Century" (2002) and, for the Spirit of Things, "The Monk and the Modern Girl" (2003). She has also produced and presented the ABC TV documentaries The Dead Sea Scrolls (2000) Buddhism East and West (2001) and Paws for Thought on animals and spirituality for Compass.
Kohn is a frequent speaker on religion and spirituality in Australia. She is the author of The New Believers: Re-imagining God (HarperCollins 2003) and Curious Obsessions in the History of Science and Spirituality (ABC Books, now HarperCollins 2007, revised and updated with ATF Press, 2020).
Awards and citations
On 31 December 1999, Kohn was one of 101 Australians, including Prime Minister John Howard, artists Ken Done, John Olsen and Margaret Olley, vice chancellor UNSW John Yu, actors David Wenham and Marina Prior, chosen to represent "the faces of a century" photographed on the front cover of The Australian national newspaper.
In 2005, the University of New South Wales awarded Kohn a Doctor of Letters degree honoris causa for "her eminent contribution to society" in the field of promoting religious understanding across faiths.In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Kohn was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for "distinguished service to the broadcast media, particularly radio, as a creator, producer and presenter, and to Jewish studies".
Kohn was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2019.
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