Nitzan Lebovic is a Professor of History and the Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the rise of a Nazi Biopolitics (2013), Zionism and Melancholy: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi (2015,2019), and A German-Jewish Time: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan (Forthcoming).