Amit Levy, A New Orient. From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel

The young Israeli historian Amit Levy called his monograph on the history of Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, published in 2024, A New Orient. On the one hand, he took up the title of the periodical of the Israel Oriental Society, founded in 1949: “The New East” is one possible English translation of its Hebrew name (p. 124). On the other hand, Levy alluded to the ongoing debate about the (European) perception of the Middle East as “Orient”. In his dissertation at the Hebrew University of J...