Amit Levy
@amitlevy.bsky.social
Migration and Knowledge, Jewish/MENA/European Late Modern History | Author of ‘A New Orient’ (Brandeis University Press, 2024) | Postdoctoral Spinoza Fellow, University of Haifa | Managing Editor, Naharaim
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Amit Levy
@amitlevy.bsky.social
· Jan 16
📚 A New Orient is officially out!
I’m thrilled to announce that my book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, has just been published by @brandeispress.bsky.social in the @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social Series.
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I’m thrilled to announce that my book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, has just been published by @brandeispress.bsky.social in the @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social Series.
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AIS 2025 reschedule scrapped our roundtable on place, myth & memory in Zionist and Israeli history 😢 But I’ll still be on campus next week for the doctoral workshop we’re hosting + panels. Around? Let’s grab coffee or swap ideas!
September 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
AIS 2025 reschedule scrapped our roundtable on place, myth & memory in Zionist and Israeli history 😢 But I’ll still be on campus next week for the doctoral workshop we’re hosting + panels. Around? Let’s grab coffee or swap ideas!
לרגל חודש הספר, ״מזרח חדש״ משתתף במבצע 1+1 בהוצאת מאגנס, יחד עם עוד מלא (באמת מלא) ספרים מצוינים שאת חלקם קראתי ואת חלקם אני מתכוון לכל הפחות לטעון שקראתי!
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June 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
לרגל חודש הספר, ״מזרח חדש״ משתתף במבצע 1+1 בהוצאת מאגנס, יחד עם עוד מלא (באמת מלא) ספרים מצוינים שאת חלקם קראתי ואת חלקם אני מתכוון לכל הפחות לטעון שקראתי!
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אני מעדיפה לשווק ברשת השנייה אבל תדעו שהספר שלי יצא והוא גם במבצע לשבוע הספר
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העברית מסמל למציאות - מרכז זלמן שזר
השפה העברית עמדה בליבו של שיח ציבורי תוסס שהתנהל בעיתונות היהודית מאמצע המאה התשע עשרה ועד לערב מלחמת העולם הראשונה. האם העברית היא לשון הקודש, שפת התנ״ך או השפה הלאומית היהודית? האם יש עברית נכונה, ו...
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June 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
אני מעדיפה לשווק ברשת השנייה אבל תדעו שהספר שלי יצא והוא גם במבצע לשבוע הספר
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June 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
**LAST DAY TO REGISTER!**
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June 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
**LAST DAY TO REGISTER!**
They say your book isn’t really published until it’s on @telavivreview.bsky.social.
Thanks to Gilad Halpern for the thoughtful conversation about A New Orient!
🎧 tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...
Thanks to Gilad Halpern for the thoughtful conversation about A New Orient!
🎧 tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...
How Do You Say Orientalism in Hebrew? - Tel Aviv Review
Dr Amit Levy discusses his book, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel"
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May 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
They say your book isn’t really published until it’s on @telavivreview.bsky.social.
Thanks to Gilad Halpern for the thoughtful conversation about A New Orient!
🎧 tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...
Thanks to Gilad Halpern for the thoughtful conversation about A New Orient!
🎧 tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...
Reposted by Amit Levy
🎓 Coming to AIS 2025 in Haifa?
Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6!
✅ Journal editors
✅ Postdoc advice
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🎉 Dinner at City Hall w/ AIS Board & Mayor
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Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6!
✅ Journal editors
✅ Postdoc advice
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May 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🎓 Coming to AIS 2025 in Haifa?
Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6!
✅ Journal editors
✅ Postdoc advice
✅ Networking skills
🎉 Dinner at City Hall w/ AIS Board & Mayor
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Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6!
✅ Journal editors
✅ Postdoc advice
✅ Networking skills
🎉 Dinner at City Hall w/ AIS Board & Mayor
📝 RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🎓 Coming to AIS 2025 in Haifa?
Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6!
✅ Journal editors
✅ Postdoc advice
✅ Networking skills
🎉 Dinner at City Hall w/ AIS Board & Mayor
📝 RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6!
✅ Journal editors
✅ Postdoc advice
✅ Networking skills
🎉 Dinner at City Hall w/ AIS Board & Mayor
📝 RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🎓 Coming to AIS 2025 in Haifa?
Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6!
✅ Journal editors
✅ Postdoc advice
✅ Networking skills
🎉 Dinner at City Hall w/ AIS Board & Mayor
📝 RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6!
✅ Journal editors
✅ Postdoc advice
✅ Networking skills
🎉 Dinner at City Hall w/ AIS Board & Mayor
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Gil Eyal (Columbia), whose Disenchantment of the Orient deeply shaped my thinking, reviewed the Hebrew edition of my book for Israeli Sociology. I really appreciated reading his take!
www.israeli-sociology.sites.tau.ac.il/_files/ugd/4...
www.israeli-sociology.sites.tau.ac.il/_files/ugd/4...
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April 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Gil Eyal (Columbia), whose Disenchantment of the Orient deeply shaped my thinking, reviewed the Hebrew edition of my book for Israeli Sociology. I really appreciated reading his take!
www.israeli-sociology.sites.tau.ac.il/_files/ugd/4...
www.israeli-sociology.sites.tau.ac.il/_files/ugd/4...
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Congratulations to @amitlevy.bsky.social !
His book "A New Orient" (in its Hebrew version) was announced as the winner of the Mordechai Ish-Shalom Award for a First Book in the Study of the Land of Israel.
Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Award Ceremony
April 28, 5 p.m., Jerusalem
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His book "A New Orient" (in its Hebrew version) was announced as the winner of the Mordechai Ish-Shalom Award for a First Book in the Study of the Land of Israel.
Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Award Ceremony
April 28, 5 p.m., Jerusalem
ybz.org.il/product/ben-...
טקס חלוקת פרסי יד יצחק בן-צבי – תשפ"ה - יד יצחק בן־צבי
יד יצחק בן־צבי - מוסד מחקר, תרבות וחינוך. תפקידיו העיקריים: חקר קהילות ישראל במזרח, חקר תולדות ארץ ישראל, חקר ירושלים והנחלתם לציבור הרחב.
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April 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Congratulations to @amitlevy.bsky.social !
His book "A New Orient" (in its Hebrew version) was announced as the winner of the Mordechai Ish-Shalom Award for a First Book in the Study of the Land of Israel.
Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Award Ceremony
April 28, 5 p.m., Jerusalem
ybz.org.il/product/ben-...
His book "A New Orient" (in its Hebrew version) was announced as the winner of the Mordechai Ish-Shalom Award for a First Book in the Study of the Land of Israel.
Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Award Ceremony
April 28, 5 p.m., Jerusalem
ybz.org.il/product/ben-...
Yes, I am THAT committed
April 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Yes, I am THAT committed
התחלנו. חמש דקות הליכה מרחוב עזה. בואו להתרעננות אינטלקטואלית
March 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
התחלנו. חמש דקות הליכה מרחוב עזה. בואו להתרעננות אינטלקטואלית
Stop apologizing for cross-posting nobody cares that you’re cross-posting we’re ignoring your threads anyway
March 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Stop apologizing for cross-posting nobody cares that you’re cross-posting we’re ignoring your threads anyway
🚨 New article alert! 🚨
Ideology and practice in the study of the Jewish communities from the Islamic world in nascent Israel
Eurocentric biases, Zionist historiography, and academic struggles – and it's Open Access! 🔓
Read more inside.👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ideology and practice in the study of the Jewish communities from the Islamic world in nascent Israel
Eurocentric biases, Zionist historiography, and academic struggles – and it's Open Access! 🔓
Read more inside.👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Whose Jewish history is it anyway? Ideology and practice in the study of the Jewish communities from the Islamic world in nascent Israel
This article explores the historiographical and ideological debates surrounding the academic treatment of Sephardi and Mizrahi (“Oriental”) Jewish history in Israeli academia during the early years...
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February 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🚨 New article alert! 🚨
Ideology and practice in the study of the Jewish communities from the Islamic world in nascent Israel
Eurocentric biases, Zionist historiography, and academic struggles – and it's Open Access! 🔓
Read more inside.👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ideology and practice in the study of the Jewish communities from the Islamic world in nascent Israel
Eurocentric biases, Zionist historiography, and academic struggles – and it's Open Access! 🔓
Read more inside.👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I'm pleased to announce that Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970, edited by Karène Sanchez-Summerer, @rachelmairs.bsky.social, Lucia Admiraal and me, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, is now available open access from www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Colonial Vocabularies
Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior...
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February 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm pleased to announce that Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970, edited by Karène Sanchez-Summerer, @rachelmairs.bsky.social, Lucia Admiraal and me, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, is now available open access from www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
To those who missed the online conversation with the generous, attentive, and all-around awesome discussant Arie Dubnov on A New Orient:
a) Shame on you
b) But there’s a recording: brandeis.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_o4...
c) Stay tuned for some interesting audience questions toward the end!
a) Shame on you
b) But there’s a recording: brandeis.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_o4...
c) Stay tuned for some interesting audience questions toward the end!
Author Conversations at the Tauber Institute: Amit Levy and Arie Dubnov on "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" January 22, 2025 - Brandeis University Mediaspace
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February 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
To those who missed the online conversation with the generous, attentive, and all-around awesome discussant Arie Dubnov on A New Orient:
a) Shame on you
b) But there’s a recording: brandeis.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_o4...
c) Stay tuned for some interesting audience questions toward the end!
a) Shame on you
b) But there’s a recording: brandeis.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_o4...
c) Stay tuned for some interesting audience questions toward the end!
Reposted by Amit Levy
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🎤 Upcoming Event: Join me for an online conversation with Prof. Arie Dubnov (GWU) on Wednesday, January 24th, at 1 pm (EST).
Register here: brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🎤 Upcoming Event: Join me for an online conversation with Prof. Arie Dubnov (GWU) on Wednesday, January 24th, at 1 pm (EST).
Register here: brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Author Conversations: "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" with Amit Levy and Arie Dubnov. After registering, you wil...
Join the Tauber Institute for another installment of our Author Conversations, this time featuring Amit Levy, author of "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel," in...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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🎤 Upcoming Event: Join me for an online conversation with Prof. Arie Dubnov (GWU) on Wednesday, January 24th, at 1 pm (EST).
Register here: brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🎤 Upcoming Event: Join me for an online conversation with Prof. Arie Dubnov (GWU) on Wednesday, January 24th, at 1 pm (EST).
Register here: brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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#friendlyreminder
On Thursday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., @amitlevy.bsky.social will give insights into his recently published book entitled »A New Orient. From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel« (Brandeis University Press) in a lunch talk at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig.
On Thursday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., @amitlevy.bsky.social will give insights into his recently published book entitled »A New Orient. From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel« (Brandeis University Press) in a lunch talk at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig.
A new Orient.
@amitlevy.bsky.social will present his new book
on Monday, 23 December at the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
and on Zoom
leobaeck.org/upcoming-eve...
and one month later, on Thrusday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig
www.dubnow.de/en/event/a-n...
@amitlevy.bsky.social will present his new book
on Monday, 23 December at the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
and on Zoom
leobaeck.org/upcoming-eve...
and one month later, on Thrusday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig
www.dubnow.de/en/event/a-n...
January 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
#friendlyreminder
On Thursday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., @amitlevy.bsky.social will give insights into his recently published book entitled »A New Orient. From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel« (Brandeis University Press) in a lunch talk at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig.
On Thursday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., @amitlevy.bsky.social will give insights into his recently published book entitled »A New Orient. From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel« (Brandeis University Press) in a lunch talk at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig.
📚 A New Orient is officially out!
I’m thrilled to announce that my book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, has just been published by @brandeispress.bsky.social in the @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social Series.
(Thread 👇)
I’m thrilled to announce that my book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, has just been published by @brandeispress.bsky.social in the @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social Series.
(Thread 👇)
January 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
📚 A New Orient is officially out!
I’m thrilled to announce that my book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, has just been published by @brandeispress.bsky.social in the @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social Series.
(Thread 👇)
I’m thrilled to announce that my book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, has just been published by @brandeispress.bsky.social in the @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social Series.
(Thread 👇)
Liebe Münchner*innen,
Ich lade euch herzlich zu meinem Buchvortrag nächste Woche ein!
Dienstag, 21.1, 19 Uhr, Historicum 🏛️
Ich lade euch herzlich zu meinem Buchvortrag nächste Woche ein!
Dienstag, 21.1, 19 Uhr, Historicum 🏛️
January 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Liebe Münchner*innen,
Ich lade euch herzlich zu meinem Buchvortrag nächste Woche ein!
Dienstag, 21.1, 19 Uhr, Historicum 🏛️
Ich lade euch herzlich zu meinem Buchvortrag nächste Woche ein!
Dienstag, 21.1, 19 Uhr, Historicum 🏛️
Look what the cat dragged in 😻
January 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Look what the cat dragged in 😻
חיפאיות.ים!
בשלישי הבא (14.1) נארח מפגש ראשון בסדרת ״צהרי ספר״.
איך נולדה המדיניות הישראלית בשטחים? כיצד החלטות שהתקבלו לפני יותר מ-50 שנה הביאו אותנו לאיפה שאנחנו היום? והאם משה דיין מתהפך בקברו או דווקא מתרווח בנחת?
בואו לשמוע את ד״ר עמרי שפר רביב ולשאול שאלות על ספרו החדש 📖
בשלישי הבא (14.1) נארח מפגש ראשון בסדרת ״צהרי ספר״.
איך נולדה המדיניות הישראלית בשטחים? כיצד החלטות שהתקבלו לפני יותר מ-50 שנה הביאו אותנו לאיפה שאנחנו היום? והאם משה דיין מתהפך בקברו או דווקא מתרווח בנחת?
בואו לשמוע את ד״ר עמרי שפר רביב ולשאול שאלות על ספרו החדש 📖
January 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
חיפאיות.ים!
בשלישי הבא (14.1) נארח מפגש ראשון בסדרת ״צהרי ספר״.
איך נולדה המדיניות הישראלית בשטחים? כיצד החלטות שהתקבלו לפני יותר מ-50 שנה הביאו אותנו לאיפה שאנחנו היום? והאם משה דיין מתהפך בקברו או דווקא מתרווח בנחת?
בואו לשמוע את ד״ר עמרי שפר רביב ולשאול שאלות על ספרו החדש 📖
בשלישי הבא (14.1) נארח מפגש ראשון בסדרת ״צהרי ספר״.
איך נולדה המדיניות הישראלית בשטחים? כיצד החלטות שהתקבלו לפני יותר מ-50 שנה הביאו אותנו לאיפה שאנחנו היום? והאם משה דיין מתהפך בקברו או דווקא מתרווח בנחת?
בואו לשמוע את ד״ר עמרי שפר רביב ולשאול שאלות על ספרו החדש 📖
מחר ב-16:00 באוניברסיטת תל אביב ננסה לחבר בין נקודות המבט ההיסטורית, הסוציולוגית והפילוסופית כדי לחשוב יחד על לימודי אוניברסיטה בישראל. בואו
December 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
מחר ב-16:00 באוניברסיטת תל אביב ננסה לחבר בין נקודות המבט ההיסטורית, הסוציולוגית והפילוסופית כדי לחשוב יחד על לימודי אוניברסיטה בישראל. בואו
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A New Orient. From German Orientalism to Israeli Mizrahanut.
Book presentation by @amitlevy.bsky.social
Now available on the Youtube channel of the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/xie7ruL...
Book presentation by @amitlevy.bsky.social
Now available on the Youtube channel of the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/xie7ruL...
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December 24, 2024 at 8:59 AM
A New Orient. From German Orientalism to Israeli Mizrahanut.
Book presentation by @amitlevy.bsky.social
Now available on the Youtube channel of the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/xie7ruL...
Book presentation by @amitlevy.bsky.social
Now available on the Youtube channel of the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/xie7ruL...
Reposted by Amit Levy
A new Orient.
@amitlevy.bsky.social will present his new book
on Monday, 23 December at the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
and on Zoom
leobaeck.org/upcoming-eve...
and one month later, on Thrusday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig
www.dubnow.de/en/event/a-n...
@amitlevy.bsky.social will present his new book
on Monday, 23 December at the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
and on Zoom
leobaeck.org/upcoming-eve...
and one month later, on Thrusday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig
www.dubnow.de/en/event/a-n...
December 18, 2024 at 7:23 AM
A new Orient.
@amitlevy.bsky.social will present his new book
on Monday, 23 December at the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
and on Zoom
leobaeck.org/upcoming-eve...
and one month later, on Thrusday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig
www.dubnow.de/en/event/a-n...
@amitlevy.bsky.social will present his new book
on Monday, 23 December at the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social
and on Zoom
leobaeck.org/upcoming-eve...
and one month later, on Thrusday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig
www.dubnow.de/en/event/a-n...