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Title

Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought

Degree

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Field of Specialty

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

Contact Information

Lown Center for Judaica Studies 307
781-736-2965
sheppard@brandeis.edu

Eugene R Sheppard

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). He co-edited "The Individual in History: Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz" along with ChaeRan Y. Freeze and Sylvia Fuks Fried(Brandeis University Press 2015). Professor Sheppard is currently writing a book that explores the ways in which pre-modern Jewish persecution and catastrophe were understood and represented by a variety of German and German Jewish figures from 1933-1947. He is also at work on another book which looks to how German Jewish academics grappled with issues of political loyalty and dissent from the interwar period to the cold war. He and Samuel Moyn (YaleUniversity) are managing editors of the multi-volume "Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought" on Brandeis University Press.

Publications

Samuel Moyn and Robert Schine, Sheppard, Eugene R. and Samuel Moyne, Managing Editors, ed. Hermann Cohen: Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy. Brandeis University Press, 2021.

Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff, Sheppard, Eugene R (series editor with Samuel Moyn), ed. Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2020.

David Ellenson and Michael Marmur, Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn (Series Editors), ed. American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement and Belief. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2020.

David Ellenson and Michael Marmur, Samuel Moyn and Eugene Sheppard managing editors, ed. American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2020.

Sheppard, Eugene R. "The Day of Reckoning:  Max Radin and the Legal Question of War Crimes by the Nazi Leadership." Swimming Against the Current: A Festschrift in Honor of Haim Seidler-Feller. Ed. David N. Myers and Shaul Seidler-Feller. Academic Studies Press, 2020. pp. 243-253.

Daniel B. Schwartz, Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn managing editors, ed. Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2019.

Managing editors and Foreword by Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn. ".Jewish Legal Theories: Writings on State, Religion, and Morality." Ed. Leora Batnitzky and Yonatan Brafman. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press/University Press New England, 2018

Sarah Hammerschlag, Samuel Moyn and Eugene Sheppard Foreword and managing editors, ed. French Jewish Thought: Writings on Religion and Politics. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press/UPNE, 2018.

Pawel Maciejko, Managing editors and Foreword by Eugene Sheppard and Samuel Moyn, ed. Sabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity. Brandeis University Press/University Press New England, 2017.

Sheppard, Eugene R. "“258 Autobiographies of Life in Germany Before & After 1933”." Brandeis Seminar on Contemporary Jewish Life. Mandel Center for Jewish Education. March 22.

Eugene R. Sheppard. ""What if Spinoza Had Repented"." What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism. Ed. Gavriel Rosenfeld. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 103-122.

Eugene R, Sheppard; ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Sylvia Fuks Fried, ed. "The Individual in History: Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz". Brandeis University Press/University Press New England, 2015.

Sheppard, Eugene R. ""Last Word: On Old Stones, a Black Cat, and a New Zion"." Jewish Review of Books (2015).

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

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/>.

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.

Sheppard, Eugene R. "Babylon and Jerusalem: Simon Rawidowicz and the Integrity of the Diasporic Mind." Sh'ma (2004).

Sheppard, Eugene R. Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile. Diss. UCLA Ph.D. Dissertation, 2001.

Courses Taught