Nitzan Lebovic: 2 books

This book offers a microhistory of Israeli thought through the work of Israel Zarchi. Zarchi’s political attachments offer a glimpse of Zionist utopia and its many shortfalls. Nitzan Lebovic is an established scholar of Jewish history and Jewish intellectual history. He is known for his...

Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era.