Nitzan Lebovic

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

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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

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...

The age of complicity requires a different understanding of 1945-present.

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New issue of Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 86, No. 2, (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54731 @projectmuse.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social @jhideas.bsky.social @nitzanl1.bsky.social @christalund.bsky.social

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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.

"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...

The Dem party proved itself an absolute sham. Supporters of mass murder as long as it serves their political/financial agenda. My guess is that they’re still searching for their long lost spine…

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.

“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...

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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/_

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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Deal

You’ll have to read the book for that :) (too long to explain in this format)

Ps. I read and quoting from Jackson’s work

Historical… the threads leading from the Nuremberg trials to apartheid, occupation, and climate litigation (I know it sounds broad:) but particularly around issues of complicity

Anyone there working on Complicity in intl law? Or anything relevant that comes up your mind? (Regardless, Im looking forward to reading your chapter!)

Feb 18th at NYU center for the humanities, with Uli Baer, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley:
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If you wait a little (I’ll be back to the US next week) I’ll send you a copy

If you want to know what’s hot in intellectual history follow @johnraimo.bsky.social

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…

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
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Registered. Thx John

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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...

Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic, Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time - Cornell University Press, January 2025
Thanks to John Raimo for the link.
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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...

Homo Temporalis is among us!
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You may have heard that the Amnesty Israel office protested the use of Genocide and half the office resigned…

“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.

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 👇
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An image from Hito Steyerl’s brilliant Die leere Mitte (The empty center), 1998 #Harvardartmuseums