Books
- De Vita, L. 2020. Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations 1949-1969. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Paperback edition: 2022].
- De Vita, L., Goschler, C. (eds.). (forthcoming in May 2025) 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
2024
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (Accepted/In press). Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1973. In J. Peters, & R. Geist Pinfold (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Israel Foreign Relations
De Vita, L., & Goschler, C. (Eds.) (2024). Wassenaar 1952: Reinventing Reparations. The German-Jewish-Israeli negotiations in historical and contemporary perspective. Routledge.
2023
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (Accepted/In press). The Eichmann Trial as a Warsaw Pact Concern? The View from East Berlin. In S. Steinbacher , & K. Rauschenberger (Eds.), The Holocaust and the Cold War 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. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323.06
2022
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2022). Review of 'Germany and Israel: White Washing and State Building'. By Daniel Marwecki. German Studies Review, 45(1), 190-192. https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0015
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. https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.7062
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
2021
Scholarly publications
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. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351123501-8
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.
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https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391121/AP_6_2019_De_Vita.pdf?sequence=1
2018
Scholarly publications
De Vita, L. (2018). The Cold War in the Courtroom: Friedrich Karl Kaul in Jerusalem. Histoire@Politique, 35. https://doi.org/10.4000/histoirepolitique.6224
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/376576/de_vita.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/376576/de_vita.pdf?sequence=1
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2017.1322580
Other output
De Vita, L. (Author). (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). German-Israeli ties in 2015 and 1965: the difficult special relationship. International Affairs, 91(4), 835-849. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12335