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Professor Schapkow specializes in German-Jewish History
and Modern Jewish Historiography from the 18th to the
20th century. He has published several articles and
book chapters on the reception of Baruch Spinoza and
the perception of Iberian-Sephardic Culture among German-Speaking
Jews. Schapkow is the author of the monograph “The
Freedom to Philosophize” — Jewish Identity
as Mirrored in the Reception of Baruch de Spinoza in
German Literature, 2001. In addition, he has written
about Weimar Culture and the German-Jewish author Ernst
Toller. His forthcoming articles and book chapters deal
with the “Construction of Jewish History: Iberian-Sephardic
and Polish-Jewish Lebenswelt in the work of Heinrich
Graetz”, “Jewish historiography in the 19th
Century: The counter-model of Iberian-Sephardic Jewry
and the case of Hamburg”, “The Debate on
Iberian-Sephardic History in German-Jewish Press”,
and “German Jews as cultural mediators and the
Iberian-Sephardic example.”
His second monograph,Vorbild und Gegenbild: Das iberische Judentum in der deutsch-jüdischen Erinnerungskultur 1779-1939, (Böhlau-Verlag Gmbh, 2011), was supported
by a Fritz Thyssen Foundation scholarship from 2003-2005
and discusses the perception of Iberian-Sephardic Culture
among German-speaking Jews in the 19th century. His
classes at OU include Modern Jewish History (1492-1948),
Rebirth of Israel, Transformation of the Jews (1750-1933),
and Jews and Other Germans. In 2000-2005 he was a Research
Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History
and Culture at Leipzig University. In Fall 2003 he was
a visiting assistant professor at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Schapkow received his
Ph.D. from the Free University Berlin in 2000.
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