Elad Lapidot Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Université de Lille Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: October 2025 Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »The Crisis of Israel. Lamentation« Project outline: The extreme violence in Israel/Palestine over the last months brought about the destruction of Palestinians by Israel, but also an inner demise of Israel. Current accounts and reactions typically deal with geopolitical histories and offer territorial or administrative solutions. This project attempts to comprehend the ongoing catastrophe through a phenomenology of Israel. Inspired by the traditional form of lament, I look back at Israel before the current destruction, contemplating the violence that lied repressed in its beauty, in its dream peace. My gaze seeks to reveal an invisibility: the effacement of the Palestinian-Jewish conflict from Israeli consciousness. This Israel perished in the present violence. I return to it here searching not restoration, but a chance of reparation. (Elad Lapidot) Research partner: Elad Lapidot is a fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at the invitation of Professor Chrisitian Wiese, Martin Buber Professor for Jewish religious philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt. His stay is funded by the Frankfurt research focus »Dynamics of Religion«. Scholarly profile of Elad LapidotElad Lapidot studied law and philosophy in Jerusalem, Paris, and Bern, where he earned his habilitation with a thesis on »Anti-anti-Semitism: A Philosophical Critique«. Since 2021, he has been a Professor for Hebraic Studies at the University of Lille, and since 2013, he has been an Adjunct Professor for Talmud at Humboldt University in Berlin. He researches, teaches, and publishes on topics related to the philosophy of religion, hermeneutics, and the history of Jewish thought. He has also translated philosophical works into Hebrew, most recently G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.Website: Selected publications:
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