Eugene R. Sheppard

Eugene R. Sheppard is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He serves as Interim Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry and is an editor of the Tauber Institute Series with Brandeis University Press.  Sheppard 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 with ChaeRan Y. Freeze and Sylvia Fuks Fried. H 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). He, Sylvia Fuks Fried (Tauber Institute), and Samuel Moyn (Yale University) are co-editors of the multi-volume Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought on Brandeis University Press. Professor Sheppard is currently writing a book that examines the life, writings, and reception of Valeriu Marcu (1899-1942), a German language popular historical writer, essayist, and Publizist of Romanian Jewish origin. What is particularly of interest to Sheppard about Marcu is the way a type of Hegelian realism informed a unique approach to historical writing as tracing the origins of the present and unfolding horizon of the future.