Shira Billet
Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics
Phone: (212) 870-5856
Building Room: Kripke 603
Office Hours: By Appointment
Shira Billet is assistant professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics at 果冻传媒, academic director of 果冻传媒 Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice, and the BA and MA advisor for the Jewish Ethics program at 果冻传媒. Before joining the 果冻传媒 faculty, she was a postdoctoral associate in Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Yale University, after completing her PhD in the Religion and Philosophy (Religion, Ethics, and Politics) subfield in the Department of Religion at Princeton University.
Dr. Billet research focuses on Jewish philosophy and Jewish thought, especially in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany and Europe. She studies Jewish philosophy in its historical contexts — including the history of philosophy and the history of Jewish studies scholarship — and in relation to contemporary conversations in Jewish thought, philosophy (especially ethics and epistemology), and religious studies. She is currently completing her first book, entitled The Philosopher as Witness: Hermann Cohen on the Virtues and the History of Philosophy.
Recent publications include:
淔rom Volozhin to London: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik Jewish-Christian Holy Spirit� (Journal of Textual Reasoning, 2025)
淗arry S. Truman Bible and Earl Warren Talmud: A Forgotten Story in the Encounter between American Law and Jewish Studies� (Din茅 Israel, 2024)
湗Let the Historian be a Philosopher!�: Hermann Cohen Methodological Dispute with Spinoza� (Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought across the Long Nineteenth Century; Oxford University Press, 2024)
湗Do Not Grieve Excessively�: Rabbis Mourning Children Between Law and Narrative in The Rabbinic Laws of Mourning and Soloveitchik Halakhic Man� (Journal of Textual Reasoning, 2023)
淗ermann Cohen Virtue Ethics� (Jewish Virtue Ethics; SUNY Press, 2023)
淏etween Jewish Law and State Law: Rethinking Hermann Cohen Critique of Spinoza� (Jewish Studies Quarterly, 2018).
