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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A wonderful new review of A New Orient came out last week in the Journal of Israeli History, paired in conversation with Mostafa Hussein's fantastic book Hebrew Orientalism! Huge thanks to @liorsternfeld.bsky.social for this insightful, generous essay that weaves our two books together. 🔗>>

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Exciting news: Starting this October, I will be joining the faculty of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. >>

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Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte & Kultur - Simon Dubnow @dubnow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dienstag, 14.7. in Frankfurt: Buchvorstellung "A New Orient" mit @amitlevy.bsky.social sowie Gespräch mit Zarin Aschrafi über die Wissenschaftsgeschichte des Nahen Ostens & die jüdisch-muslimischen Wissensbeziehungen des 20. Jahrhunderts dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/event/buchvo...

Veranstaltungsplakat mit einem Foto des Referenten: einem jungen Mann mit Brille und Bart, vor ein paar Bäumen stehend, die Arme verschränkt

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"Levy’s book resonates with our contemporary moment as an informed inquiry into the charged relationship between science and politics." Happy to share this generous review of A New Orient by Abraham Rubin, featured in the latest issue of AJS Review 📖 muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Another thoughtful review of A NEW ORIENT is out – this time by Nora Derbal in Die Welt des Islams. She calls it a “treasure trove” and a “powerful intervention” on migrating knowledge & intellectual cooperation. Read it here: brill.com/view/journal...

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Grateful for Sabine Mangold-Will’s generous deep dive into "A New Orient" in Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines! Read the full review here: journals.openedition.org/rhsh/12132?l...

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

‏ביקורת חדשה על מזרח חדש, והפעם בכתב העת חידושים! תודה לפרופ׳ מאיר חטינה על ביקורת עשירה, מלומדת ומנומקת עם הצעות לכיווני מחקר נוספים

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

AJS 2025 is upon us – come say hello if you’re here! Our ultra-awesome lightning session on education and Arab-Jewish relations in the Mandate period will take place on Monday at 8:30 a.m. (yes, I know – but honestly, what better way to start the day?)

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

AIS 2025 reschedule scrapped our roundtable on place, myth & memory in Zionist and Israeli history 😢 But I’ll still be on campus next week for the doctoral workshop we’re hosting + panels. Around? Let’s grab coffee or swap ideas!

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

לרגל חודש הספר, ״מזרח חדש״ משתתף במבצע 1+1 בהוצאת מאגנס, יחד עם עוד מלא (באמת מלא) ספרים מצוינים שאת חלקם קראתי ואת חלקם אני מתכוון לכל הפחות לטעון שקראתי! www.magnespress.co.il/promotions

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

**LAST DAY TO REGISTER!**

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

They say your book isn’t really published until it’s on @telavivreview.bsky.social. Thanks to Gilad Halpern for the thoughtful conversation about A New Orient! 🎧 tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

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How Do You Say Orientalism in Hebrew? - Tel Aviv Review

Dr Amit Levy discusses his book, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel"

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🎓 Coming to AIS 2025 in Haifa? Join our Grad Student Workshop on July 6! ✅ Journal editors ✅ Postdoc advice ✅ Networking skills 🎉 Dinner at City Hall w/ AIS Board & Mayor 📝 RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Gil Eyal (Columbia), whose Disenchantment of the Orient deeply shaped my thinking, reviewed the Hebrew edition of my book for Israeli Sociology. I really appreciated reading his take! www.israeli-sociology.sites.tau.ac.il/_files/ugd/4...

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

התחלנו. חמש דקות הליכה מרחוב עזה. בואו להתרעננות אינטלקטואלית

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Stop apologizing for cross-posting nobody cares that you’re cross-posting we’re ignoring your threads anyway

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🚨 New article alert! 🚨 Ideology and practice in the study of the Jewish communities from the Islamic world in nascent Israel Eurocentric biases, Zionist historiography, and academic struggles – and it's Open Access! 🔓 Read more inside.👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Whose Jewish history is it anyway? Ideology and practice in the study of the Jewish communities from the Islamic world in nascent Israel

This article explores the historiographical and ideological debates surrounding the academic treatment of Sephardi and Mizrahi (“Oriental”) Jewish history in Israeli academia during the early years...

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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm pleased to announce that Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970, edited by Karène Sanchez-Summerer, @rachelmairs.bsky.social, Lucia Admiraal and me, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, is now available open access from www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Colonial Vocabularies

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior...

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

To those who missed the online conversation with the generous, attentive, and all-around awesome discussant Arie Dubnov on A New Orient: a) Shame on you b) But there’s a recording: brandeis.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_o4... c) Stay tuned for some interesting audience questions toward the end!

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Author Conversations at the Tauber Institute: Amit Levy and Arie Dubnov on "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" January 22, 2025 - Brandeis University Mediaspace

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Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte & Kultur - Simon Dubnow @dubnow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#friendlyreminder On Thursday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., @amitlevy.bsky.social will give insights into his recently published book entitled »A New Orient. From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel« (Brandeis University Press) in a lunch talk at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig.

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

📚 A New Orient is officially out! I’m thrilled to announce that my book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, has just been published by @brandeispress.bsky.social in the @tauberbrandeis.bsky.social Series. (Thread 👇)

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Liebe Münchner*innen, Ich lade euch herzlich zu meinem Buchvortrag nächste Woche ein! Dienstag, 21.1, 19 Uhr, Historicum 🏛️

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Look what the cat dragged in 😻

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

חיפאיות.ים! ‏בשלישי הבא (14.1) נארח מפגש ראשון בסדרת ״צהרי ספר״. ‏איך נולדה המדיניות הישראלית בשטחים? כיצד החלטות שהתקבלו לפני יותר מ-50 שנה הביאו אותנו לאיפה שאנחנו היום? והאם משה דיין מתהפך בקברו או דווקא מתרווח בנחת? ‏בואו לשמוע את ד״ר עמרי שפר רביב ולשאול שאלות על ספרו החדש 📖

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

מחר ב-16:00 באוניברסיטת תל אביב ננסה לחבר בין נקודות המבט ההיסטורית, הסוציולוגית והפילוסופית כדי לחשוב יחד על לימודי אוניברסיטה בישראל. בואו

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Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte & Kultur - Simon Dubnow @dubnow.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A New Orient. From German Orientalism to Israeli Mizrahanut. Book presentation by @amitlevy.bsky.social Now available on the Youtube channel of the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/xie7ruL...

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Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte & Kultur - Simon Dubnow @dubnow.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A new Orient. @amitlevy.bsky.social will present his new book on Monday, 23 December at the @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social and on Zoom leobaeck.org/upcoming-eve... and one month later, on Thrusday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m., at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig www.dubnow.de/en/event/a-n...

Buntes SharePic mit einem Ausschnit aus dem ebenfalls bunten (organe-grünen) Cover der Publikation "A New Orient" von Amit Levy

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Being pro-Palestine means supporting Palestinian self-determination and sovereignty. It means denouncing Israeli policies that harm Palestinians, condemning Hamas, and emphasizing accountability on both sides. It means promoting coexistence and pursuing a pragmatic, humanistic path to peace.

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

*קול קורא: יהדות ואסלאם במאה העשרים בין גרמניה, פלשתינה-ישראל וארה״ב* כנס לציון 125 שנים להולדתו ו-40 שנים למותו של ש״ד גויטיין (ירושלים, 3/25) 🗓️ תאריך אחרון להגשה: 15 בינואר 2025 📢 מוזמנות ומוזמנים להגיש הצעות - אנא הפיצו!

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

*CFP: Judaism and Islam in the 20th Century Between Germany, Palestine/Israel, and the US* A conference marking 125 years since the birth & 40 years since the death of S. D. Goitein (Jerusalem, 3/25) 🗓 Submission deadline: Jan 15, 2025 📢 Please share and consider submitting a paper proposal!

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A friend with a real job asked me if I know of a podcast or recording that gives an introduction to the Cairo Genizah in a way that’s easy to understand for a general audience. Do you have any recommendations?

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a man and a woman wearing headphones are looking at a laptop screen that says two wars on it

ALT: a man and a woman wearing headphones are looking at a laptop screen that says two wars on it

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

מי שיכול להרשות לעצמו אני ממליץ

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Last week in Berlin: blasphemous content

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

מוזמנות ומוזמנים להאזין לריאיון שערך איתי גבי זהר האחד והיחיד ברדיו צפון על הספר שלי, ״מזרח חדש״, ועל ידידות אינטלקטואלית בין יהודים וערבים בתקופת המנדט soundcloud.com/amit-l/23820...

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עמית לוי: ריאיון על הספר ״מזרח חדש״ (מאגנס, 2024) עם גבי זהר, רדיו צפון, 23.8.2024

Listen to עמית לוי: ריאיון על הספר ״מזרח חדש״ (מאגנס, 2024) עם גבי זהר, רדיו צפון, 23.8.2024 by amitl #np on #SoundCloud

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Stop trying to make Bluesky happen. It’s not going to happen

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

I wrote something on the recent 'open letter' that tries to explain why although I oppose Israeli government policies I found it very troubling. Decided not to post it because I think the world doesn't need another self-righteous text, and others can probably say it better. >>>

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

The awkward, life-draining art of sending introductory emails to professors in your new institution

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

German-Jewish orientalist Gotthold Weil (right) and friends riding mules in the desert on their way to Saqqara, Egypt, around December 1927. (From the Digitized Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)

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Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I guess I’ll be reposting some things from the other-social-media-platform-that-shall-not-be-named. Keep in mind that I’m a historian so expect old photos or photos of old things

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