Mitchell Cohen

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University

MPhil, Political Science, Columbia University

M.A., Political Science, Columbia University

B.A., Political Science, Case Western Reserve Univ.

Artistic and Creative Activities

Cohen, M. (2019). Politics and Opera. 92nd St. Y.

Cohen, M. (2018). Politics and Opera.

Cohen, M. (2017). Politics and Opera. New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.

Cohen, M. (2017). Politics and Opera. Close Encounters with Music.

Cohen, M. (2016). Colliding Dreams. Riverside Films.

Books

Cohen, M. (2020). The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart. Princeton New Jersey, USA, Princeton University Press.

Cohen, M. (2018). Princeton Readings in Political Thought. (p. 741). Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Cohen, M. (1994). The Wager of Lucien Goldmann. (p. 368). Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Cohen, M. (1992). Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Great Political Short Stories. (p. 520). New York, Dell/Delacorte Books.

Cohen, M. (1992). Zion and State: Nation, Class, and the Shaping of Modern Israel. (p. 351). NY, Columbia University Press.

Cohen, M. (1990). Du Reve sioniste a la realite Israelienne. Paris, France, Editions la Decouverte.

Cohen, M., & Cohen, M. (1984). Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation: Selected Essays by Ber Borochov. (p. 218). New Brunswick, Transaction.

Journal Articles

Mitchell, C. (2017). What Lenin's Critics Got Right. Dissent,

Mitchell, C. (2017). A Crisis in Jewish Political Culture?. Jewish Social Studies,

Cohen, M. (2016). A Dissonant Moses in Berlin and Paris ("Moses und Aron"). Jewish Review of Books,

Cohen, M. (2015). Labor Zionism, the State and Beyond: An interpretation of Changing Realities and Changing Histories. Israel Studies Review, 30(2). 1-27.

Cohen, M. (2015). Going Under with Klinghoffer. Jewish Review of Books,

Cohen, M. (2014). Verdi, Wagner, Politique et Opéra. Ruminations bicentenaires. L'Homme et la societie, 192(2). 197-206.

Cohen, M. (2014). The Values of Dissent. Dissent Magazine, 60(1).

(2014). "Reading Time". Nexus,

(2010). T.H. Marshall's "Citizenship and Social Class". Dissent, 57(4). 81.

(2010). Life and Fetters: Janacek, Dostoyevsky, Chereau. Dissent, 57(3). 73-79.

(2010). Should We Trust Intellectuals?. Common Knowledge (Duke University Press), 16(1). 7-21.

(2009). Moral Burdens: Iraq and the Ghosts of 1956. World Affairs, 171(3). 84-95.

(2008). Auto-emancipation et antisemitisme. Hommage à Bernard Lazare. Controverses, number 7. 213-220.

(2008). Gandhi’s Burden-- and Ours: Thoughts after "Satyagraha" at the Metropolitan Opera. Dissent, 55(3). 73-78.

(2006). A Roasted Cat will never make a Hare-pie; Thoughts on Political Opera, In German: Aus einer gebratener Katze wird doch kein Hasenpastete: Uberlegungen zum politschen oper. Musik und Asthetik (Klett-Cotta), 10(39). 51-66.

(2004). Un male che somiglia all' alcolismo. Rest, 85-88.

Cohen, M. (2004). Reflexions sur l' opera politique: Musique et politique. Raisons Politiques (National Foundation for Political Science and Doctoral Faculty of the Institute d' Etudes Politiques de Paris/Presses de la Fondation Nationale des sciences politique, (14). 41-59.

(2003). Auto-emancipation and Anti-Semitism: Homage to Bernard Lazare. Jewish Social Studies (New Series Indiana University Press), 9(4). 69-71.

(2003). A Preface to the Study of Modern Jewish Political Thought. Jewish Social Studies ( New Series, Indiana University Press), 9(2). 1-27.

(2002). Preface a l' etude de pensee politique juive moderne. Raisons Politiques Etudes de Pensees Politique (Doctoral Faculty of the Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris/Presses de la Fondation Nationale des sciences politique), 103-133(7). 193-207.

(2001). Ces Courants Qui Traversent l' Amerique. Raisons Politiques Etudes de Pensees Politique (Doctoral Faculty of the Institute d' Etudes Politiques de paris/Presses e la Fondation Nationale des sciences politque, (1). 193-207.

(1994). A Preface to the Study of Jewish Nationalism. Jewish Social Studies (New Series, Indiana University Press; Old Series, Conference on Jewish Social Studes, 1939-1992), 1(1). 73-93.

(1992). Introduction to Special Issue on Lucien Goldmann. Philosophical Forum (Baruch College, CUNY), XXIII(1-2). 3-8.

Cohen, M. (1992). Between Revolution and Normalcy: Social Class in Zionist Political Thinking. Modern Judaism (John Hopkins University Press), 12. 259-276.

Cohen, M. (1991). Lucien Goldmann in Romania . Philosophical Forum (Baruch College, CUNY), XXIII(1-2). 44-70.

(1989). The Contours of Ber Borochov's Political Thought . Ya'ad: Studies in the History and Problems of the Israeli Labour Movement (Tel-Aviv University), 1(19). 91-96.

Cohen, M. (1986). The Concept of Community in the Thought of Lucien Goldmann. Praxis International (Blackwell of Oxford Publishers), 6(3). 220-234.

Book Chapters

Cohen, M. (2017). "Zionism and the Left". In Jacobs, J. (Ed.), The Left and the Jews (p. 25). Cambridge, UK,United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press.

Cohen, M. (2014). "Anti-Semitim and the Left that Doesn't Learn". In Nelson, C., & Brahm, G. (Eds.), The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel Michigan. Wayne State University Press.

Cohen, M. (2008). "To the Dresden Barricades: The Genesis of Richard Wagner’s Political Ideas". In Grey, T. S. (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Wagner (pp. 47-64). Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

Cohen, M. (2007). "Socialist Zionism". In Yovel, Y., & Brinker, M. (Eds.), New Jewish Time: Jewish Culture in a Secular Age, An Encyclopedic View (pp. 73-83). Tel Aviv,Israel. Keter.

Cohen, M. (2005). In the Murk of it: Iraq Reconsidered. In Cushman, T. (Ed.), (pp. 76-92). Berkeley and Los Angeles. A Matter of Principle (Univ. of California Press).

Cohen, M. (2004). Decades of Dissent. In Mills, N., & Walzer, M. (Eds.), (pp. 1-8). New Haven. Fifty Years of Dissent: An Anthology (Yale University Press).

Cohen, M. (2004). Il socialismo liberale americano: un' introduzione. In Urbinati, N., & Canto-Sperber, M. (Eds.), (pp. 197-214). Venice. Liberal-socialisti: il futuro di una tradizione (Marsilio Editori.

Cohen, M. (2004). Decades of Dissent. (pp. 5-8). Dissent (Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas).

Cohen, M. (2003). Le socialisme liberal aux Etats-unis: Introduction. In Canto-Sperber, M., & Urbinati, N. (Eds.), (pp. 267-282). Paris. Le socialisme liberal (Editions Esprit).

Cohen, M. (1999). Tragedia e facto nel marxismo del xx secolo, da Gyorgy Lukacs a Lucien Goldmann (Tragedy and the fate of Marxism in the 20th Century). In Vacca, G. (Ed.), (pp. 331-348). Rome. Gramsci e il Novocento (Carocci editore).

(1999). David Stern's Cosmos. (pp. 64-67). Dissent (Found.for the Study of Independent Social Ideas).

(1999). David Stern's Cosmos. New York. David Stern: Recent Paintings (Rosenburg/Kaufman Fine Art).

Cohen, M. (1998). In Defense of Shaatnez: A Politics for Jews of Multicultural America." Insider/Outsider: Jews and Multiculturalism. Earlier version presented to the Seminar on Histoire et Historiographie comparee des Juifs (XIX et XXe siecles) of the Centre de rechereches historiques of the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, France, January 16, 1996. In Biale, D., Heschel, S., & Galchinsky, M. (Eds.), (pp. 34-54). Berkeley/Los Angeles: Universtiy of California Press.

Cohen, M. (1995). "Rooted Cosmopolitanism: The Left, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism," What's Left? The Left and Nationalism in a Post-Socialist Europe. In Minkenberg, M. (Ed.), (pp. 69-86). Ithaca. Cornell University Institute for Eurpoean Studies Western Societies Occassional Paper #33.

(1994). "Roots of Dissent" Introductory essay in Legacy of Dissent 40 Years of Writing from Dissent Magazine. (pp. 17-35). New York. Simon & Schuster.

(1994). "The Questions of Intervention," American Foreigh Policy 1994/95: Annual Editions; Originally in Dissent, winter 1993 (foundation for the Study of Independent Ideas, pp 21-25). (pp. 91-95). Gulford CT. Dushkin Publishing.

Cohen, M. (1988). "The Lavon Affair" The Politics of Scandal. In Markovits, A. S., & Silverstein, M. (Eds.), (pp. 230-253). New York, NY. Holmes and Meier.

Media Contributions

(2017). BYU -- Sirius "Thinking Aloud".

(2017). "Thinking Aloud," Hour long interview..

(2016). "Colliding Words" (Documentary Film).

(2016). Fonet.

(2014). New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Presentations

Cohen, M. (2019, November 30). Roundtable: the World Today. "Wagner's 'Ring,' or who will Rule the World Today". The Amsterdam Opera House: The Nexus Institute.

Cohen, M. (2018, April 30). Politics of Opera. : Casa Itlaiana, New York University.

Cohen, M. (2018, February 10). Politics of Opera. Princeton Festival. Princeton NJ: Prnceton Public Lbrary and Princeton University Press.

Cohen, M. (2017, September 14). The Politics of Opera. Books at Lunchtime. Manhattan: 92nd St. Y.

Cohen, M. (2017, November 30). Politics of Opera. NYU: New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.

Cohen, M. (2015, February 13). Charlie Hebdo and After. Panel Discussion on Terrorism in France. New York University: New York Insitute for the Humanities.

Cohen, M. (2012, May 8). Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism and the Left. Jews and the Left. New York: YIVO Instotute for Jewish Research.

Cohen, M. (2012, May 23). The Meaning of 1977. History and Memory. Stanford: Stanford University European Center and the Van Leer Institute.

Cohen, M. (2012, April 15). Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism. Conference on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism. Madison: University of Wisconsin.

Cohen, M. (2010, November 30). The Politics of Richard Wagner. Jerusalem Israel: Center for European Studies, Hebrew University.

Cohen, M. (2010, November 30). Ghosts of the Past: The American Extreme Right. "Ghosts of the Past". University of Tilburg, Tilburg, the Netherlands: The Nexus Institute.

Cohen, M. (2009, January 31). Wagner and Parsifal. Paris, France: School of Higher Studies in Social Science (Ecole des Huates Etudes en Sciences Sociales).

Cohen, M. (2008, November 30). Politics and Compassion in Wagner's "Parsifal". Ethics and Art. Venice Italy: University of Venice and Nexus Institute.

Cohen, M. (2006, May 26). Transnational America: Philosophical Reflections. Imagining (the) American Community (ies) in History, Politcs and the Arts. Potsdam: 36th Annual "Fachleiter" Seminar for German High School Teachers of American Studies, sponsored by the US Mission to Germany, Berlin and the Amerikazentrum of Hamburg.

Cohen, M. (2006, June 16). Humanitarian Intervention. First Galilee Dialogue on Moral and Political Philosophy. Kfar Blum, Israel: The Swiss-Israel Philosophy Society.

Cohen, M. (2004, March 26). Richard Wagner's Politics. Lecture at the American University. Washington DC

Cohen, M. (2003, May 8). Irving Howe: The Politics of a New York Intellectual. Stanford University: Center for Integrative Studies in the Sciences and Humanities.

Cohen, M. (2003, February 6). Listening to Wagner's Politics. Center for Integrative Studies in the Sciences and Humanities. Stanford University

Cohen, M. (2003, March 2). Auto-emancipation et antisemitisme. Presented to the Colloquium, Qui emancipe-t-on? Femmes, Juifs, Noirs, College des etudes juives, Alliance israelite universelle. Mairie of the 9th Arrondisement,Paris, France

Cohen, M. (2002, November 13). Thinking about Politics and Opera. Center for Integrative Studies in the Sciences and Humanities. Stanford University

Cohen, M. (2002, April 11). Political Ideas and Opera. Seminar in Comparative Politics/Sociology. New Haven: Yale Univesity.

Cohen, M. (2001, January 31). Wagner and Politics. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris

Cohen, M. (2001, March 31). Thoughts on Politics and Opera. American Center of the Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Cohen, M. (2001, March 31). The Politics of Dissent: The Founding of An American Intellectual Journal. American University of Paris

Cohen, M. (2001, January 31). Politics and the Birth of Opera. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris

Cohen, M. (1998, October 31). . Co-Chair,International Conference on the Future of the Welfare State. Abano, Italy: Mayor of Abano, Dissent and Reset.

Cohen, M. (1997, May 8). Panel Chair, German and American Jewish Relations to Israel. Conference on Postwar Jewish Communities: Survival and Revival, Berlin-New York. : Center for European Studies of New York University, the Goethe-Institut and the Center for German and European Studies of Georgetown University at NYU.

Cohen, M. (1997, April 30). Political Canons: What are the Great Books of Politics?. Chair of and Speaker in symposium on Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon's Princeton Readings in Political Thought. Televised on C-Span

Cohen, M. (1997, April 9). Political Canons: What are the Great Books of Politics?. Chair of and Speaker in symposium on Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon's Princeton Readings in Political Thought. Barnes and Noble, 2289 Broadway, New York City

Cohen, M. (1997, April 6). Panel chair, Democracy and Distributive Justice. International Meeting of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought. Columbia University

Cohen, M. (1996, November 8). Discussant of paper by E.J. Hobsbawn on Is Ideology a Necessary Resource?. International Conference on Democracy between Populism and Oligarchy. Princeton University

Cohen, M. (1996, September 30). Embattled Minorities. Chair of panel and speaker in symposium on Dissent's special issue on "Embattled Minorities". Televised on C-Span

Cohen, M. (1996, September 12). Embattled Minorities. Chair of panel and speaker in symposium on Dissent's special issue on Embattled Minorities. Barnes and Noble, 2289 Broadway, New York City

Cohen, M. (1995, May 2). The Future of Intellectual Journalism. Participant/discussant, International Seminar, Institute for Advance European Studies. New York University

Cohen, M. (1995, April 30). Zionism and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics. The Abba Hillel Silver Lecture on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Jewish Studies. Case Western Reserve University, Clevand

Cohen, M. (1994, September 30). The Origins of Middle East Nationalism. The Resnick Lecture. SUNY at New Paltz

Cohen, M. (1994, April 30). The Utopianism of Irving Howe. Symposium on Irving Howe and his World. : CUNY Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center.

Cohen, M. (1993, December 31). A Preface to study of Jewish Nationalism. Elise B. Lipset Endowment Lecture. Stanford University

Cohen, M. (1991, September 28). American Intellectuals and the Transformation of Europe. Lecture at "Seminaire de Reflexion: Une Certaine Idee de l`Europe". French Senate, Paris, France: Le Monde diplomatique, L E venement Europeen and the Condorcet Circle.

Cohen, M. (1989, January 15). The Political Situation in Israel. Lecture to the Editorial Board of Esprit. Paris

Cohen, M. (1988, April 21). Peace in the Middle East: Can We Get There From Here?. Lecture at Kenyon College. Gambier,Ohio

Cohen, M. (1988, February 28). The Middle East 40 Years After the Birth of Israel. Panel Chair and Discussant at the 13th Annual CUNY Political Science Conference.

Cohen, M. (1986, June 15). Israeli State-building on the West Bank: Theory and Practice. Discussant of paper at the Second Conference of the Association for Isreal Studies. Rutgers University

Cohen, M. (1985, June 30). Issues and Trends in Israeli Politics. Round table Discussant at the Founding Conference of the Association for Israel Studies. Dartmouth College

Cohen, M. (1985, December 31). Israel: The Politics of the National Unity Government. Panel Chair and Discussant at 11th Annual CUNY Political Science Conference.

Cohen, M. (1985, April 18). Radical Chains: Class in Zionist Politics and Thought from Borochov to Ben-Gurion. Lecture at the Center for European Studies. Harvard University

Cohen, M. (1984, July 31). Rutenberg, Weizmann and the Conflict over the Shape of the Zionist Movement, The Changing Character of Jewish Authority in Modern Age. Discussant of paper. London: Oxford Centre for Post-graduate Hebrew Studies and the Instute of Jewish Studies of University College.

Cohen, M. (1984, August 31). First Clash: Origins of the Split Between Left and Right in Israeli Politics. Lecture at the Summer Colloquia of the Oxford Centre for Post-graduate Hebrew Studies. Oxford University, Oxford, England

Cohen, M. (1983, February 6). The Road to Statehood: Zionist Political and Economic Strategies Before 1948. Lecture before the Continuing Seminar on Zionist Organization. World Zionist Organization, New York

Cohen, M. (1983, December 31). Historical Perspectives on the Theory of Peace and War. 9th Annual CUNY Political Conference, discussant of papers in panel on.

Cohen, M. (1982, December 31). The Middle East 1982. 8th Annual CUNY Political Science Conference, Panel Discussant.

Cohen, M. (1981, April 30). Lucien Goldmann and the Wager of Marxist Humanism. Paper Presented at the Annual Conference of New York State Political Science Association.

Cohen, M. Wagner and Verdi. Public Event (Roundtable Discussion) at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY Graduate Center: Levy Center of the CUNY Graduate Center.

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Cohen, M. (2020,November 22). "A Socialist Future?". New York,USA: The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Cohen, M. (2017,February 24). "Ben-Gurion: A Difficult Exit". London,United Kingdom: Times Literary Supplement.

Cohen, M. (2012,April 1). Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community. USA: Common Knowledge.

Cohen, M. (2007,April 1). France Uncovered. New York Times Book Review.

Cohen, M. (2002,January 17). "The Character of Genius." Review of Peter Kivy, The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius in The Wall Street Journal.

Cohen, M. (1999,September 29). "Peace it's Possible." Review of Itamar Rabinovich, Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century in The New York Times Book Review. The New York Times Publishing Corporation.

Cohen, M. (1999,February 4). "All Too Human." Review of Joachim Kohler, Nietzsche and Wagner in The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones Co..

Cohen, M. (1998,June 19). "The Right to Opt Out." Review of Stephen L. Carter, The Dissent of the Governed and Margert Levi, Consent, Dissent and Patriotism in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS). Times of London.

Cohen, M. (1998,July 1). "Wagner as a Problem" (A Review-Essay), German Politics and Society. the Center for German and European Studies, University of California; The Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; and the Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University.

Cohen, M. (1997,November 23). "No More Systems." Review of Ralf Dahrendorf, After 1989: Moral, Revolution, and Civil Society, in The New York Times Book Review. New York Times Publishing Corp.

Cohen, M. (1997,February 16). "E Pluribus Unum." Review of Amitai Etzioni, The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society in The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Los Angeles Times inc.

Cohen, M. (1996,January 1). "Imaginary Jews and Jewish Imagination". Review- essay on Alain Finkielkraut, The Imaginary Jew, in Studies in Contemporary Jewry XII. New York, Oxford, Jerusalem: Oxford University Press and the Hebrew University.

Cohen, M. (1996,February 23). "How Do We Make Citizens?" Review-essay on Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, in TLS/Times Literary Supplement. The Times of London.

Cohen, M. (1990,January 1). Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948: A Study in Ideology. Studies in Zionism (Te Aviv University).

Cohen, M. (1989,January 1). Jews and Germany Philosophy. Review of Nathan Rotenstreich. Studies in Contemporary Jewry (Bloomington/Jerusalem: Indiana University Press and Hebrew University).

Cohen, M. (1989,June 1). "Formulating the Future" Review of S. Avineri, Arlosoroff, TLS. The Times of London.

Cohen, M. (1987,April 1). Politics in Israel. Review of Asher Arian. The Middle East Journal (The Middle East Institute, Washington DC, University Press, and Hebrew University).

Cohen, M. (1986,January 1). Leon Blum. Review of Jean Lacouture. Studies in Conemporary Jewry (Bloomington and Jerusalem: Indiana University Press and the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of The Hebrew University).

Cohen, M. (1984,January 1). Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism. Review of Stephen J. Whitfield. Studies in Contemporary Jewry (Bloomington and Jerusalem: Indiana University Press and the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University).

Cohen, M. (1983,July 1). Andre Gorz, Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism, in New Politcal Science. The Caucus for a New Political Science.

Cohen, M. (1983,July 1). "Salvationist Hope, Terrorist Dictatorship." Review of J.L. Talmon, The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution, Dissent. Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas.

Cohen, M. (1982,October 1). "The Politics of the Powerless," Review of Jonathan Frankel, Prophecy and the Politics: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Russian Jews. (In Hebrew translation in Shvut No 10. Tel Aviv University, Fall 1984. pp 179-181). Dissent (Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas).

Cohen, M. (1982,October 25). Dissenter in Zion: From the Writings of Judan L Magnus, The New Republic. New Republic Publishers.

Research Currently in Progess

Cohen, M.(n.d.). The Political Passions of Richard Wagner: A Political and Biographical Study. In Progress.

Cohen, M.(n.d.). The Values of Social Democracy. In Progress.

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