The Individual in History

Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz

Edited by ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Sylvia Fuks Fried, and Eugene R. Sheppard

Jehuda Reinharz, born in Haifa in 1944, spent his childhood in Israel and his adolescence in Germany, and moved with his family to the United States when he was seventeen. These three diverse geographies and the experiences they engendered shaped his formative years and the future of a prolific scholar who devoted his life to the study of the central role of leadership as Jews faced the challenges of emancipation and integration in Germany, the rise of modern antisemitism, the formation of Zionist youth culture and politics, and the transformation of Jewish politics in Palestine and the State of Israel. In this volume, eminent scholars in their respective fields extend the lines of Reinharz’s research interests and personal activism by focusing on the ideological, political, and scholarly contributions of a diverse range of individuals in Jewish history. Essays are clustered around five central themes: ideology and politics; statecraft; intellectual, social and cultural spheres; witnessing history; and in the academy. This volume offers a panoramic view of modern Jewish history through engaging essays that celebrate Reinharz’s rich contribution as a path-breaking and prolific scholar, teacher, and leader in the academy and beyond.

E-book: $40
ISBN-13: 9781611687330
Pages: 580 | Size: 6.25 in. x 9.25 in.
Date Published: May 22, 2015

About the Author

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. 

 

Chaeran Freeze

ChaeRan Y. Freeze is the Frances and Max Elkon Chair in Modern Jewish History at Brandeis University. Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia was a 2000 recipient of the Koret book publication grant.

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