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, Director of the History of Ideas program, Associate Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, and associate editor of the Tauber Institute Series with Brandeis University Press. His areas of expertise include Modern European Jewish Intellectual History, History of Jewish Nationalism and Zionism, and Modern European Intellectual History and the History of Continental Philosophy. Most recently he has taught “World Without God: Theories of Secularization” and “Modern Jewish Philosophy.”

He is the author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (Brandeis University Press 2007). He recently co-edited (with ChaeRan Y. Freeze and Sylvia Fuks Fried) The Individual in History: Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz (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 to the cold war. He and Samuel Moyn (Harvard University) are managing editors of the multi-volume Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought on Brandeis University Press/UPNE.

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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