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Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent Magazine in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton University Press), The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics and a Hidden God (Princeton University Press) and Zion and State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel (Blackwell/Columbia University Press). Zion and State will be republished as an ebook later this year. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Sunday Book Review; the Times Literary Supplement (London); Esprit (Paris); and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His article ‘Does the Left have a Zionist Problem?’ appeared in Jews and Leftist Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Born in New York, he received his PhD from Columbia University and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
‘Expelled From the Community of Which We Were a Part Only Yesterday’ Jean Améry on the Dilemma for Left-Wing Jewish Intellectuals, Sartre’s Freedom of Choice and the Commitment to Israel
Beyond Left and Right: Israel’s Post- 7 October Political Awakening
Two Mirrors, Two Truths: The Divergent Documentary Approaches of Holding Liat and Letter to David
Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism
The Telos of a Hatred
