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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.
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