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Nitzan Lebovic

Nitzan Lebovic is Professor of History at the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University in Philadelphia, where he holds the Apter Chair in Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values. He received his B.A. in History and Theory of Literature from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. from UCLA. His first book, titled The Philosophy  of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics (2013) focuses on the circle around the Lebensphilosophie and anti-Semitic thinker Ludwig Klages. His second book, Zionism and Melancholy: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi, came out in Hebrew in 2015 and was published in English in June 2019 in the New Jewish Philospohy and Thought series at Indiana University Press.

Professor Lebovic is also co-editor of The Politics of Nihilism (2014), and of Catastrophes: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept (2014), and has authored special issues of the journals Rethinking History ("Nihilism"), Zmanim ("Religion and Power"), the New German Critique ("Political Theology"), Comparative Literature and Culture ("On Complicity and Dissent"), and Political Theology ("Prophetic Politics").

Professor Lebovic regularly teaches classes about the history of the Holocaust, the history of total war, introduction to modern Jewish culture, and the history of fascism. As Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago this past Autumn Quarter, he taught "The Holocaust: History and Meaning," a class designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, and participated in teaching a graduate seminar.