Nitzan Lebovic
nitzanl1.bsky.social
Nitzan Lebovic
@nitzanl1.bsky.social
Intellectual historian
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"Die deutsche Regierung wie auch die deutsche Öffentlichkeit sollten angesichts der begangenen Kriegsverbrechen im Gazastreifen dringend über ihre historische Rolle in der gegenwärtigen Lage nachdenken."

Wichtiger Text von Nitzan Lebovic, Prof für Europ./Jüd. Geschichte:
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Aufarbeitung der Verbrechen in Gaza: Wer verfolgt die Komplizen?
Europa und die USA sind für Menschenrechts­verletzungen in Gaza mitverantwortlich. Der Krieg ruft Assoziationen zu den Nürnberger Prozessen wach.
taz.de
October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Essential reading from Nitzan Lebovic (@nitzanl1.bsky.social) at the Journal of the History of Ideas ( @jhideas.bsky.social), #skystorians: muse.jhu.edu/article/959035
June 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The Republican legislators set to hold a Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism this week include multiple antisemites, including those who have called to convert Jews to Christianity, one who praised Hitler, and one who threatened to burn a synagogue: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing
Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The age of complicity requires a different understanding of 1945-present.
In the new JHI, Nitzan Lebovic (@nitzanl1.bsky.social) writes about complicity and the Kastner Affair.

This article is now available open access. Read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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"We are witnessing the co-opting of the fight against antisemitism to pursue unrelated, authoritarian goals by the Trump Administration, and the so-called Antisemitism Awareness Act will give them another tool." www.jta.org/2025/04/30/u...
Progressive Jewish groups oppose Antisemitism Awareness Act ahead of Senate vote - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The act returns to the Senate in a changed political climate.
www.jta.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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“Jewish people came to America to escape generations of similar predations... The images of Ozturk’s arrest in twenty-first century Massachusetts evoke the oppressive tactics... that many ancestors... left behind in Odessa, Kishinev, and Warsaw.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE
More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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We spoke to HOMO TEMPORALIS author
@nitzanl1.bsky.social about #GermanJewishThinkers who shaped much of what we know today as the modern humanities & how our understanding of time has changed with the introduction of the modern idea of the #Anthropocene age.

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1869, Ep. 159 with Nitzan Lebovic, author of Homo Temporalis
Learn more about Homo Temporalis (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779565/homo-temporalis/#bookTabs=1 Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/_
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March 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Feb 18th at NYU center for the humanities, with Uli Baer, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley:
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A Trialogue about Time
By analyzing the concept of time, Nitzan Lebovic explores Buber's stress on the temporality of the dialogue between I and Thou
www.eventbrite.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you want to know what’s hot in intellectual history follow @johnraimo.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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A short piece on Emile Benveniste and the Linguistic Circle of Prague, his relation with Nicolai Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson, and including a brief report of his 1937 lecture to the Circle, translated from the Czech by @johnraimo.bsky.social
progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/19/b...
Benveniste and the Linguistic Circle of Prague
There are some good histories of the Linguistic Circle of Prague, which met in the years before the Second World War, and which included Russian scholars as well as ones from Czechoslovakia. J…
progressivegeographies.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic, Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time - Cornell University Press, January 2025
Thanks to John Raimo for the link.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Homo Temporalis by Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Homo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arend...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
September 11, 2024 at 6:43 AM
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Solidarity is the only thing that can save us.

If you look back at history, solidarity has propelled essentially all social progress that we now celebrate or take for granted. And is what we need to move forward.

A newish interview at the link 👇
jacobin.com/2024/11/soli...
“Solidarity Is the Only Thing That Can Save Us”
Without cultivating a strong sense of solidarity with mass numbers of people we’ll never meet, we’re doomed to slip further into atomized isolation and defeat.
jacobin.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:29 PM
An image from Hito Steyerl’s brilliant Die leere Mitte (The empty center), 1998 #Harvardartmuseums
November 28, 2024 at 4:47 PM