Books
- De Vita, L. 2020. Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations 1949-1969. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Paperback edition: 2022].
- De Vita, L., Goschler, C. (eds.). Redefining Reparations: Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair. London: Routledge.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Textbook Sections
- De Vita, L. (Forthcoming). ‘Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1973’ in Rob Geist Pinfold and Joel Peters (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Israel Foreign Relations. London: Routledge.
- De Vita, L. (Forthcoming). 'The Eichmann Trial as a Warsaw Pact Concern? The View from East Berlin' in Sybille Steinbacher and Katharina Rauschenberger (eds.) The Holocaust and the Cold War. Göttingen: Wallstein
- De Vita, L., Ira, J., Serrier, T., Tompkins, A. (Forthcoming). 'Borders in Contemporary History' in Jan Hansen, Jochen Hung, Jaroslav Ira, Judit Klement, Sylvain Lesage, Juan Luis Simal, Andrew Tompkins (eds.). The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
- De Vita, L. 2022. ‘Dutch Hospitality: The 1952 German-Jewish-Israeli Negotiations amid Post-Holocaust and Post-Imperial Tensions’, BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review 137:2, pp. 4-29.
- De Vita, L. 2021. ‘Crisis at the Creation: The Establishment of the First US Embassy in Israel, 1947-1949’ in Rogelia Pastor-Castro and Martin Thomas (eds.) Embassies in Crisis: Managing Diplomatic Exposure. London: Routledge, 143-163.
- De Vita, L. 2021. ‘An East German “Star Lawyer”, the Nazi Past and the Cold War’ in Leora Bilsky and Annette Weinke (eds.) Jewish-European Émigré Lawyers: Twentieth Century International Humanitarian Law as Idea and Profession. Göttingen: Wallstein, 151-171.
- De Vita, L. 2020. 'Contextualising German-Israeli Relations in the aftermath of the Holocaust’, [in Hebrew] Tabur: Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought.
- De Vita, L. 2018. ‘Ulbricht, Nasser and Khrushchev: The GDR’s Search for Diplomatic Recognition and the Suez Crisis, 1956’, in Muehlenbeck, P. and Telepneva, N. Warsaw Pact International Relations: Aid and Influence in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. London: IB Tauris, 21-47.
- De Vita, L. 2017. ‘Overlapping Rivalries: The two Germanys, Israel, and the Cold War’, Cold War History 17:4, 351-366.
- De Vita, L. 2015. ‘German-Israeli ties in 2015 and 1965: The Difficult Special Relationship’, International Affairs 91:4, 835-849.
Book Reviews
- De Vita, L. 2022. Review of Germany and Israel: White Washing and State Building by Daniel Marwecki (London: Hurst, 2020) in German Studies Review (45:1), 190-192.
- De Vita, L. 2022. Review of „Ich muß deshalb dringend von jeder zusätzlichen Aktion für Israel abraten.“. Das Auswärtige Amt und Israel zwischen 1967 und 1979 by Remko Leemhuis (Berlin: LIT, 2020) in H-Soz-Kult.
- De Vita, L. 2020. Review of Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo by Seth Anziska (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019) in Diplomatica: Journal of Diplomacy and Society (2), 169-171.
- De Vita, L. 2018. Review (in German) of DDR und PLO: Die Palästinapolitik des SED-Staates by Lutz Maeke, Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften (18:4).
- De Vita, L. 2015. Review of Adenauer’s Foreign Office: Diplomacy in the Shadow of the Third Reich by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., Intelligence and National Security (30:5), 747-748.
- De Vita, L. 2014. Review of Germany’s Foreign Policy of Reconciliation by Lily Gardner Feldman, German History (32:3), 505-506.
Public Writings
- De Vita, L. 2023. What Happened at Wassenaar? As calls for reparations gain momentum, public attention has turned back to the 1952 German-Israeli Holocaust negotiations, The Dial issue 3: "Reparations"
- De Vita, L. 2022. 'Der Abschluss des Luxemburger Abkommens vor 70 Jahren', KAS.
- De Vita, L. 2020. ‘Dialogue is Key. So is the Connection to the Students. But How Can One Keep It Alive in Times of Social Distancing?’ Utrecht University Teaching Academy Blog.
- De Vita, L. 2019. ‘The Cold War in the Middle East: Then and Now’, Atlantisch Perspectief (6), 34-37.
- De Vita, L. 2018. Contribution to the dossier: Cold Warriors: propagande, culture et guerre froide, Histoire@Politique: Revue électronique du Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po.
- De Vita, L. 2017. 'How East Germany Capilitalized on the Arab-Israeli Conflict', Sources and Methods: Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
- De Vita, L. 2015. ‘Annäherung im Schatten der Hallstein-Doktrin: das deutsch-deutsch-israelische 1965’, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (6), 29-35.
Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2025). Wiedergutmachung aus erster Hand: Otto Küsters „Tagebuchnotizen zu den Verhandlungen über den Sühnevertrag mit Israel“ 1952/53. Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, 667. [DOI]
Romein, C. A., Kırmızıaltın, S., Reshef, R., Schneider, C., Agostini, G., Charlton, A., Terras, M., Nockels, J., Ahn, S., Aladağ, F., Capurro, C., Damsma, L., De Vita, L., Fahnenbruck, L., Gielis, G., Griffiths, R., Keinan-Schoonbaert, A., Kuijpers, E., El Attal, M., ... Wilbrink, H. (2025). From research proposal to project management. A guide from the Transkribus community on planning and executing workflows for researchers and GLAM-professionals. International Journal of Digital Humanities. Advance online publication. [DOI]
2024
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2024). Podcast, Universiteit van Nederland, 'Hoe word je vrienden met je vijand?'. Digital or Visual Products, Universiteit van Nederland. https://youtu.be/qct9KFsVCus?feature=shared
De Vita, L., & van de Glind, F. (2024). TIPs for Succes: The T@UU Internationalisation Project. Utrecht University. [Portal]
De Vita, L. (2024, May 6). Response to Reviewers of Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations 1949-1969. Manchester University Press.
De Vita, L. (2024). Israel and Germany 1948–1973. In Routledge Handbook on Israel’s Foreign Relations (pp. 129-140). Taylor & Francis. [DOI]
2023
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L., Carmichael, S., Evans, C., Hung, J., Onnekink, D., Visser, B., & Antheunisse, D. (2023). Internationalisation 2.0 Project: An Integral Approach to Internationalisation at the Geschiedenis/Histry BA at Utrecht University. Utrecht Universiteit.
De Vita, L. (2023). The Eichmann Trial as a Warsaw Pact Concern? The View from East Berlin. In S. Steinbacher , K. Rauschenberger, & J. von Puttkamer (Eds.), Investigating, Punishing, Agitating: Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc (pp. 92-113). Wallstein Verlag.
De Vita, L., Tompkins, A., Ira, J., & Serrier, T. (2023). Borders in Contemporary History (ca. 1900–2000). In J. Hansen, J. Hung, J. Ira, J. Klement, S. Lesage, J. L. Simal, & A. Tompkins (Eds.), The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000 (pp. 53-62). Open Book Publishers. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2022). Review of Trading Power: West Germany's Rise to Global Influence, 1963-1975 by William Glenn Gray. H-Diplo.
De Vita, L. (2022). Podcast interview 'German-Israeli Relations 1949-1969', IR Talk. Digital or Visual Products https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/irtalk/episodes/S2-E10-German-Israeli-Relations-1949-1969-with-Professor-Lorena-De-Vita-e1b5eqd
De Vita, L. (2022). Review of 'Germany and Israel: White Washing and State Building'. By Daniel Marwecki. German Studies Review, 45(1), 190-192. [DOI] [Repository]
De Vita, L. (2022). Dutch Hospitality: The 1952 German-Jewish-Israeli Negotiations amid Post-Holocaust and Post-Imperial Tensions. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 137(2), 4-29. [DOI] [Repository]
De Vita, L. (2022, Jan 12). R. Leemhuis: „Ich muß deshalb dringend von jeder zusätzlichen Aktion für Israel abraten.“. Clio-online. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-49914 [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2021). Podcast interview, 'Diplomacy', Tavelling Concepts On Air. Digital or Visual Products https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/episode-10-diplomacy/id1531763239?i=1000525858021
De Vita, L. (2021). Podcast Interview, 'Israelpolitik', New Books in Diplomatic History. Digital or Visual Products https://open.spotify.com/show/0MIbXivnuceG1zC5egFZt6
De Vita, L. (2021). An East German “Star Lawyer”, the Nazi Past and the Cold War. In L. Bilsky, & A. Weinke (Eds.), Jewish-European Émigré Lawyers: Twentieth Century International Humanitarian Law as Idea and Profession (1 ed., pp. 151-171). Wallstein.
2020
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2020). ישראל-פוליטיק // בין העבר הנאצי להווה של המלחמה הקרה: יחסי גרמניה-ישראל לאחר השואה. טבור כתב עת שנתי לענייני היסטוריה, חברה, תרבות והגות של מרכז אירופה, (10). https://tabur.huji.ac.il/%D7%98%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F-10-%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8-%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%99-%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%93%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%98%D7%94
De Vita, L. (2020). Crisis at the Creation: The Establishment of the First US Embassy in Israel, 1947-1949. In R. Pastor-Castro, & M. Thomas (Eds.), Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations (1 ed., pp. 143-163). (Routledge Studies in Modern History). Routledge. [DOI] [Portal]
De Vita, L. (2020). Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949-1969. (Key Studies in Diplomacy). Manchester University Press.
2019
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2019). The Cold War in the Middle East: Then and Now. Atlantisch Perspectief, 2019(6), 34-37. [Repository]
2018
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2018). Lorena De Vita: Rezension von: Lutz Maeke: DDR und PLO. Die Palästinapolitik des SED-Staates. Sehepunkte. Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften, 18(4). https://www.sehepunkte.de /2018/04/31011.html
De Vita, L. (2018). The Cold War in the Courtroom: Friedrich Karl Kaul in Jerusalem. Histoire@Politique, 35. [DOI] [Repository]
De Vita, L. (2018). Rezension von: Lutz Maeke: DDR und PLO. Die Palästinapolitik des SED-Staates. Sehepunkte. Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften, 18(4). http://www.sehepunkte.de/2018/04/31011.html
De Vita, L. (2018). Ulbricht, Nasser and Khrushchev: The GDR’s Search for Diplomatic Recognition and the Suez Crisis, 1956. In P. Muehlenbeck, & N. Telepneva (Eds.), Warsaw Pact intervention in the Third World: aid and influence in the Cold War IB Tauris.
2017
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2017). Overlapping Rivalries: The two Germanys, Israel and the Cold War. Cold War History, 17(4), 351-366. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
De Vita, L. (2017). How the GDR Capitalized on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Web publication/site https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/how-the-gdr-capitalized-the-arab-israli-conflict
2015
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2015). Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., Adenauer's Foreign Office: West German Diplomacy in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Intelligence and National Security, 30(5), 747-748. [DOI]
De Vita, L. (2015). German-Israeli ties in 2015 and 1965: the difficult special relationship. International Affairs, 91(4), 835-849. [DOI]
2014
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2014). Review of Germany’s Foreign Policy of Reconciliation: From Enmity to Amity by Lily Gardner Feldman. German History, 32(3), 505-507. [DOI]