"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: taz.de/Aufarbeitung...

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

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.

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

"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...

“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...

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. soundcloud.com/1869thecuppo...

Feb 18th at NYU center for the humanities, with Uli Baer, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-trialogu...

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

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...

newbooksnetwork.com/homo-tempora... @cornellupress.bsky.social @inthiseui.bsky.social @oxfordcih.bsky.social @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @stanfordtaube.bsky.social

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 is among us! @cornellupress.bsky.social @jprdata.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @radicalphilosophy.bsky.social @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social @inthiseui.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social @philosophybites.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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...

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