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Nitzan
Lebovic

Lehigh University
Ruth Meltzer Fellowship

Research Topic

German-Jewish Biopolitics

Bio

Nitzan Lebovic is an associate professor of history and the Apter Chair of Holocaust studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University. He received his BA in the History and Theory of Literature from Tel Aviv University and his PhD from UCLA. His first book, titled The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics (2013) focused on the circle around the Lebensphilosopher and anti-Semitic thinker Ludwig Klages. His second book, about Zionism and Melancholia: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi was published in Hebrew in 2015 and is expected soon in English. Nitzan is also the Co-editor of The Politics of Nihilism (2014)  and of Catastrophe: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept (2014), and of special issues of Rethinking History (Nihilism), Zmanim (Religion and Power), and The New German Critique (Political Theology).

Fellowship

2016–2017
Political Ramifications: Expanding Jewish Political Thought

Asking if and how Jewish history, culture, and experience offered new paradigms with which to engage the political—and, conversely, how mainstream political theories might expand Jewish studies in new and productive directions.

Events

Round Table on Miguel Vatter's Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Round Table on Miguel Vatter's Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt
Featuring: Miriam Jerade, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; David Flatto, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Martin Kavka, Florida State University; Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University; Paula Schwebel, Ryerson University; Miguel Vatter, Deakin University