Eugene R Sheppard

Title

Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Expertise

Research is in modern Jewish intellectual history with a special interest in modern German Jewish thought, and the impact of European Jewish refugees on the American public sphere and academy.

Profile

EUGENE R. SHEPPARD, is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought, and Associate Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. He received his Ph.D. at UCLA in the department of History in 2001. In Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (Brandeis University Press 2006), he critically assesses the development of this controversial and enigmatic German-Jewish refugee's political philosophy and its legacy. Professor Sheppard is co-editing a volume on Simon Rawidowicz with David N. Myers; he and Samuel Moyn (Columbia University) are managing editors of a forthcoming series on Brandeis University Press/UPNE entitled Readings in Modern Jewish Thought. He is co-editor of the AJS Review book review. He is a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy.

Degrees

University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles, M.A.

University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	sheppard@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2965
Office:	Lown, 304

Awards and Honors

Mellon Seminar Fellow (1995)

Courses Taught

GSAS	301d	Interdisciplinary Prospectus Seminar
NEJS	5a	Foundational Course in Judaic Studies
NEJS	137a	The Destruction of European Jewry
NEJS	154a	World Without God: Theories of Secularization
NEJS	158a	Divided Minds: Jewish Intellectuals in America
NEJS	159a	Modern Jewish Philosophy
NEJS	231a	Current Trends in Jewish Studies
NEJS	236a	Seminar on Modern Jewish History and Historiography
NEJS	253a	Zionism and Its Critics: Contested Visions of Jewish Nationalism
USEM	25b	Trials of Truth, Power, and Justice

Scholarship

Sheppard, Eugene R, David N. Myers, ed. Babylon and Jerusalem: Engaging the Thought and Legacy of Simon Rawidowicz. 2010.

(Managing Editors) Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn, ed. Modern Jewish Thought. Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2009.

Sheppard, Eugene R. "Exile." The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era. Ed. Kavka, Martin & Novak, David. Cambridge University Press, 2009

Sheppard,Eugene R. "Raising Zionism to the Level of Antisemitism: Reflections on Leo Strauss as Zionist." Jewish Studies Quarterly (2009).

Sheppard, Eugene R and Lebovic, Nitzan, ed. Political Theology, Theme Issue of New German Critique. 2008.

Sheppard, Eugene R (Associate Book Review Editor), ed. Association for Jewish Studies Review. 2007.

Sheppard, Eugene R. Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of A Political Philosopher. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2006.

Sheppard, Eugene R. "'I Am a Memory Come Alive': Nahum Glatzer and the Legacy of German-Jewish Thought in America." Jewish Quarterly Review (2004): 123-148.

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