Edward K. Kaplan

Title

Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities

Romance Studies

Expertise

Abraham Joshua Heschel. Thomas Merton. French romanticism. Michelet. Hugo. Modern French poetry and theory. Baudelaire. Jabes. Bonnefoy. Religion and literature. Translation.

Profile

Professor Kaplan is particularly interested in the relationship between esthetic, ethical, and religious experience in literature and the lives and writings of religious activists and thinkers
In addition to books on French authors Michelet and Baudelaire, he is completing the first intellectual and cultural biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Degrees

Columbia University, Ph.D.

Columbia University, M.A.

Brown University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	edkaplan@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3214
Office:	Shiffman, 109

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Awards and Honors

National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies, Spiritual Radical (Yale UP, 2007), March 2008 (2008)

Coolidge Research Seminar Fellow, Institution for Religion and Public Life, New York City (2001)

Grants from Lucius N. Littauer Foundation (2000)

Finalist, National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship (Abraham Joshua Heschel) (1998)

Grants from Lucius N. Littauer Foundation (1998)

Choice Outstanding Academic Book (The Parisian Prowler) (1992)

Grants from Lucius N. Littauer Foundation (1992)

Lewis Galantiere Prize, American Translators Association (The Parisian Prowler) (1990)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1985 - 1986)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1974 - 1975)

Collins Premium Prize for Excellence in French (1964)

Courses Taught

COML	130a	Poetic Voices of Protest
COML	144b	The Outsider as Artist and Lover
FECS	117a	Jewish Identities in France since 1945
FREN	113a	French Fiction
FREN	114b	Quest for the Absolute
FREN	130a	The Seventeenth Century: Reason and Passion
FREN	143a	French Existentialism: An Introduction
FREN	145a	Baudelaire et son monde: Evil, Beauty, Finitude
NEJS	153b	Abraham Joshua Heschel: Spirituality and Action
USEM	15a	Journeys to Enlightenment

Scholarship

Kaplan, Edward K, and Shaul Magid, special issue of Modern Judaism, 29,1 (February 2009): 1-160., ed. Abraham Joshua Heschel, a Centenary Conference [at Brandeis University]. Oxford University Press, 29,1 2009.

Kaplan, Edward K. Abraham Heschel, Un prophete pour notre temps. Paris, France: Albin Michel, 2009.

Kaplan, Edward K. Baudelaire's Prose Poems:The Esthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in "The Parisian Prowler" (orig. 1990). new paperback edition ed. Athens , Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2009.

Kaplan, Edward K. Spiritual Radical. Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 (orig. 2007). second printing, paperback edition ed. 2009.

Kaplan, Edward K. "Coming to America, 1940-41." Modern Judaism 27. (2008): 129-47.

Kaplan, Edward K. "Edmond Jabes et le renouveau du religieux." Edmond Jabes: L'eclosion des enigmes. 1 ed. vol. 1 Ed. Daniel Lancon & Catherine Mayeux. Paris: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2008. 133-43.

Kaplan, Edward K. "Healing Wounds: Reflections on Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interfaith Partnership in Poland." Religion and the Arts. Journal from Boston College 12-1-3. (2008): 411-19.

Kaplan, Edward K. "Heschel and the Vietnam War." Tikkun. Politics, Spirituality, Culture July/August 2007: 14-16, 68.

Kaplan, Edward K. "Heschel on Vietnam: Protest and Political Action." Tikkun September/October 2007: 15-16,70.

Kaplan, Edward K. "Incarcerated Prophets: Crisis Letters of Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.." The Merton Seasonal 33,2. Summer 2008 (2008): 22-26.

Kaplan, Edward K (with Samuel Dresner). Abraham Joshua Heschel, Prophetic Witness. London, New Haven: Yale University Press, orig. 1998; paperback edition, Feb. 2007, 2007.

Kaplan, Edward K. ""Nature"." L'Esprit Createur (special issue on Jules Michelet, French historian) 46. 3 (2007): 105-108.

Kaplan, Edward K. "Heschel, Prophetic Activist." Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism Winter 2007: 18-21,61.

Kaplan, Edward K. "Spiritual Radical." The Social Edge on-line journal. o (2007): on-line <o>.

Kaplan, Edward K. "essay on Heschel, Man Is Not Alone." Shofar. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 46. 1 (2007): 190-93.

Kaplan, Edward K. "review of Cahiers Gaston Bachelard." Modern and Contemporary France (England) vol. 14 (2006): 390-91.

Kaplan, Edward K. Spiritual Radical. Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972.. 1 ed. London, New Haven: Yale University press, 2007.

Kaplan,Edward K. "''A Humanly Impoverished Thirst of Light': Thomas Merton's Receptivity to the Feminine, to Judaism, and to Religious Pluralism,." The Merton Annual Studies in Culture, Spirituality, and Social Concerns 17 (2004): 137-52.

Kaplan,Edward K. "Introduction." Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Ineffable Name of God: Man (translation of Heschel's Yiddish poems). Ed. Morton Leifman. New York, London: Continuum Publishers, 2004. 7-18.

Kaplan,Edward K. "Revelation and Commitment: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Situational Philosophy." Filosofia e critica della filosofia nel pensiero ebraico. Ed. ed. P.Amodio, G. Giannani, G. Lissa. (Acts of International Colloquium at University of Naples, 25-27 February 2002, 2004

Kaplan,Edward K., with Samuel H. Dresner,. Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.

Kaplan,Edward K, 2nd ed. w/ new preface. The Parisian Prowler, translation of Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris. Petits Poémes en Prose.. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Kaplan,Edward K. Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety. Albany: State University of New York Press (Judaic, 1996.

Kaplan,Edward K. La Sainteté en paroles. Abraham Heschel, piété, poétique, action (French translation of Holiness in Words). Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1996.

Kaplan,Edward K. Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Esthetic, The Ethical, and the Religious in The Parisian Prowler. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1990.

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