Faculty and Staff
Sylvia Fuks Fried is executive director of the Tauber Institute. She is associate editor of the Tauber Institute publication series and the Brandeis University Press representative to the editorial committee of the University Press of New England. Fried serves on the executive committee of the Center for German and European Studies and as director of publications for the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.
Eugene R. Sheppard is associate director of the Tauber Institute and associate professor of modern Jewish history and thought in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis. He is most interested in modern German Jewish thought and the influence of European Jewish refugees on public life and academia in the United States. His recent publications include "Leo Strauss and Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher" (2006), "The Early Leo Strauss" (co-edited with P. Bouretz, forthcoming) and "Babylon and Jerusalem: Engaging the Thought and Legacy of Simon Rawidowicz" (co-edited with D. Myers, forthcoming). Sheppard is also co-editing, with Samuel Moyn, the forthcoming Brandeis University Press/UPNE series, "Readings in Modern Jewish Thought."
Jehuda Reinharz is general editor of the Tauber Institute publication series. He is the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and has served as president of Brandeis University since 1994. He was director of the Tauber Institute between 1984 and 1994.Miriam Hoffman is the senior administrator and program coordinator for the Tauber Institute. She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Queens College, New York, and an associate degree in interior design and space planning from Mt. Ida-Chamberlain College, in Boston. A native of Israel, Hoffman held several teaching positions in Hebrew day schools in New York City before coming to Brandeis University in 1999. She also administrates the Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness and coordinates the Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute for Israel Studies.
Amaryah Orenstein is a research and editorial assistant at the Tauber Institute. A third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American History at Brandeis, she is most interested in 20th-century intellectual and political history and the American Jewish experience.