Charleston, South Carolina
Michael Sincoff Kogan, PhD
1942 — 2024
Professor Michael S. Kogan passed away on Saturday, April 6, 2024. Born in New York City on September 30, 1942, Dr. Kogan lived part of the year in Charleston in 1990. After his retirement in 2014, he lived full-time in the Holy City. Dr. Kogan had deep roots in Charleston. His direct ancestors came to this city in 1830. Co-lateral forebears had lived in Charleston for a century before that. Dr. Kogan graduated from the Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York, and received his B.A. in Philosophy and his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University. He pursued post-graduate studies at the Columbia University Graduate Faculty of Philosophy and at The Jewish Theological Seminary of...