Columbia University Press, January 2026, ISBN: 9780231560030, 428 pages.

Zion and State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel (ebook)

“Zion and State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel” by Mitchell Cohen has been republished as an ebook by Columbia University Press. It is still available in paperback and in French. It examines the longstanding conflict between the left and right in Zionism — the substance of the arguments between Ben Gurion and Jabotinsky — and the causes for the defeat of the Israeli Labor movement in 1977. Cohen is professor emeritus of political science at the City University of New York and Editor Emeritus of Dissent Magazine. He was a founding Vice President of the Association for Israel Studies The second French edition has a long historiographical essay as an Afterword that was also published in the Israel Studies Review in English and appears under “Links” on the Columbia University Press webpage for “Zion and State”:  Zion and State | Columbia University Press 

Mitchell Cohen is professor emeritus of political science at the City University of New York and editor emeritus of Dissent Magazine.