Eugene R Sheppard

Title

Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
History
History of Ideas
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Philosophy

Expertise

Modern German and German-Jewish intellectual history. A special interest in modern German Jewish thought, and the impact of European Jewish refugees on the American, European, and Israeli public sphere as well as the academy.

Profile

EUGENE R. SHEPPARD, is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought, Associate Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, and associate editor of the Tauber Institute Series with Brandeis University Press. He is the author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (Brandeis University Press 2007), which critically assesses the development of this controversial and enigmatic German-Jewish refugee's political philosophy and its legacy. Professor Sheppard is
currently working on a book that explores the ways in which German Jewish intellectuals
grappled with issues of loyalty from the 1920s through the 1950s. He is also co-editing
the Nachlass of Simon Rawidowicz with David N. Myers (UCLA) and Benjamin Ravid (Brandeis University, Emeritus). He and Samuel Moyn (Columbia University) are managing editors of multi-volume
"Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought" on Brandeis University Press/UPNE.

Degrees

University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles, M.A.

Occidental College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	sheppard@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2965
Office:	Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 307

Awards and Honors

Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica, The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of History, Harvard University (2013)

History of Ideas Course Award for HOID/NEJS 154a: World Without God?: Theories of Secularization (2010)

Visiting Scholar Bucerius Institute for Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa (2010)

Mellon Seminar Fellow (1995)

Courses Taught

GSAS	301d	Interdisciplinary Prospectus Seminar
GSAS	302d	Interdisciplinary Dissertation Seminar
NEJS	5a	Foundational Course in Judaic Studies
NEJS	135a	The Modern Jewish Experience
NEJS	154a	World Without God: Theories of Secularization
NEJS	159a	Modern Jewish Philosophy
NEJS	231a	Graduate Proseminar in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
NEJS	236a	Seminar on Modern Jewish History and Historiography
NEJS	253a	Zionism and Its Critics: Contested Visions of Jewish Nationalism
NEJS	256a	Secularization and Its Discontents
PHIL	167a	Hegel: Self-Consciousness and Freedom in the Phenomenology of Spirit

Scholarship

David Myers, Benjamin Ravid, and Eugene Sheppard, ed. Simon Rawidowicz's Nachlass. 2014. (forthcoming)

Sheppard, Eugene R. ""The Voice That Speaks in My Soul"." Jewish Ideas Daily March 8, 2013 (2013): <http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/6093/features/the-voice-that-speaks-in-my-soul/>. (forthcoming)

Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, editors., Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn (Managing Editors), ed. Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writing on Identity, Politics, and Culture 1893-1958. Waltham, MA/Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2013.

Sheppard, Eugene R. ""Foreword"." Germany's Prophet: Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism. Waltham, MA/Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2013

Simon Rabinovitch, Ed., Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn (Managing Editors), ed. Jews and Diaspora Nationalism: Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States. Waltham: Brandeis University Press/University Press New England, 2012.

Gottlieb, Michah, Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn (Managing Editors), ed. Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity and the Bible. Brandeis University Press, 2011.

Hart, Mitchell B., Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn (Managing Editors), ed. Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940. Waltham/Hannover: Brandeis University Press/University Press New England, 2011.

Sheppard, Eugene R. "Uri Ram, The Globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel-Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem (London and New York: Routledge, 2008)." Israel Studies vol. 15 of 1 Spring 2010: 183-187.

Sheppard, Eugene R. "Mara H. Benjamin. Rosenzweig’s Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)." Rev. of Rosenzweig’s Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity, by Mara Benjamin. Association for Jewish Studies Review vol. 33 of No. 2 Fall 2009: 412-414.

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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