Amit Levy and Arie Dubnov at the Tauber Institute

Join the Tauber Institute on Wednesday, January 22 at 1:00pm Eastern for another installment of our Author Conversations, this time featuring Amit Levy, author of A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, in conversation with Arie Dubnov (George Washington University), moderated by Eugene Sheppard, director of the Tauber Institute and professor of modern Jewish history and thought at Brandeis University.

This event will stream live on Zoom. Registration is required.

Amit Levy’s A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel is part of the Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry, published by Brandeis University Press.

“An engaging story of German Jewish Orientalists who arrived in Mandatory Palestine, either as refugees or as active Zionists and established the School of Oriental Studies at the Hebrew University. Levy explores the dilemmas faced by these scholars, the tensions between European traditions and Middle Eastern reality, and the escalating struggle between Zionism and Arab nationalism in Middle Eastern studies in Israel.”

—Hillel Cohen, The Hebrew University