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Jewish Studies

The Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Book Series  ''The Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Book Series" has been established to promote scholarship, research, and a wide range of theoretical, textual, and clinical studies on the multiple interconnections between and mutual influence of Judaism and contemporary psychoanalysis.  Its aim is broad, spanning a wide variety of subject areas: from the origins of psychoanalysis in Jewish circles of turn-of-the-century Vienna to clinical studies illuminating contemporary facets of Jewish identity and self-understanding; from explorations of psychological aspects of Jewish theology to psychoanalytic investigations of anti-Semitism; from studies of Jewish religious ritual to analyses of Hasidic mysticism and folklore; from psychoanalytic studies of pre-World War II Yiddish theater to the clinical practice of psychoanalysis in modern-day Tel-Aviv. "The Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Book Series" provides a home for fresh and intellectually challenging contributions across the spectrum of this interdisciplinary area of scholarship.

Series Editor: Lewis Aron, Ph.D., New York University, New York

Editorial Board:
Susannah Heschel, Ph.D. (Dartmouth College, Hanover)
Arnold Richards, M.D., (New York University, New York)
Jill Salberg, Ph.D., (New York University, New York)
Moshe Halevi Spero, Ph.D., (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
Karen Starr, Psy.D., (Long Island University at C.W. Post, Brookville, New York)


    Series titles:
  • Survival and Trials of Revival: Psychodynamic Studies of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families in Israel and the Diaspora
    by Hillel Klein
  • The Transmission of Passion: Practicing Psychoanalysis Within and Beyond the Borders of the Land of Israel
    by Moshe Halevi Spero
  • Granddaughters of the Holocaust: Never Forgetting What They Didn’t Experience

Classics in Judaica Classics in Judaica is a new series from Academic Studies Press focusing on preserving timeless classic works on Jewish faith and culture. Well-known writers both modern and historical are once again accessible through these affordable volumes. All volumes have been personally selected by the current leading scholars of our time for their lasting significance in the field of Jewish Studies. Those interested in Judaism and Jewish culture in general will find this series to be invaluable both in the classroom and for personal use.


    Series titles:
  • Aham Ha-am: Selected Essays
  • The Teachings of Maimonides
  • Questions Jews Ask: Reconstructionist Answers
  • Essays on the Writings of Abraham Ibn Ezra
    by Abraham Ibn Ezra, translated by Michael Friedlaender

Anti-Semitism in America  Broadly conceived, the "Anti-Semitism in America" series explores anti-Zionist and anti-Israel discourse, sentiment, events, and trends across the fields of education, art, history, literature, music, political science, psychology, sociology, and more. The first volume in the series, Anti-Semitism on the Campus: Past and Present was published in 2010.

Series Editor: Eunice Pollack, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas  


    Series titles:
  • Antisemitism on the Campus: Past and Present
    by Eunice G. Pollack
  • Hating the Jews: The Rise of Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
    by Gregg Rickman

Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah  This series includes monographs, collected studies, anthologies, and textbooks dealing with diverse areas of Jewish thought over the ages, including Rabbinic thought and mysticism, Medieval philosophy, Renaissance philosophy, Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Modern and contemporary thought. The series explores: repercussions of and interactions with surrounding cultures and schools of thought in Jewish philosophy and mysticism; interfaces of philosophy and other types of thought and literary expression (such as exegesis and poetry); political philosophy; women and gender in Jewish philosophy; the Jews and the sciences; constructive philosophy and theology.

Series Editor: Dov Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan


    Editorial Board:
  • Ada Rapoport Albert  (University College, London) 
  • Gad Freudenthal  (C.N.R.S, Paris) 
  • Gideon Freudenthal  (Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv),  
  • Moshe Idel  (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 
  • Raphael Jospe  (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan),  
  • Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshiva University, New York),  
  • Menachem Kellner  (Haifa University, Haifa),  
  • Daniel Lasker  (Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva) 
    Series titles:
  • Modern Jewish Thinkers: From Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig
    by Gershon Greenberg
  • The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe
    by Orietta Ombrosi
  • Maimonides as a Biblical Interpreter
    by Sara Klein-Braslavy
  • Torah in the Observatory: Gersonides, Maimonides, Song of Songs
    by Menachem Kellner
  • The Horizontal Society: Understanding the Covenant and Alphabetic Judaism (vol 1 and vol 2)
    by Jose Faur
  • Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages
    by Raphael Jospe
  • Jewish Religion After Theology
    by Avi Sagi
  • Science in the Bet Midrash: Studies in Maimonides
    by Menachem Kellner
  • Religious Zionism: History and Ideology
    by Dov Schwartz
  • The Horizontal Society, Volumes 1, 2
    by Jose Faur
  • State Religious Education in Israel: Between Integration and Segregation
    by Zehavit Gross
  • Wisdom’s Little Sister: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought
    by Abraham Melamed
  • Contemporary Covenantal Thought: Interpretations of Covenant in the Thought of David Hartman and Eugene Borowitz
    by Simon Cooper
  • Between Heschel and Buber: A Comparative Study
    by Alexander Even-Chen, Ephraim Meir

Israel: Society, Culture, and History  “Israel: Society, Culture and History” is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of complex interactions among culture, identity, history and power in Israeli society and politics. Encouraging nuanced interpretation in a broad range of theoretical approaches, transcending ideological and disciplinary boundaries, books in this series contextualize the Israeli case study in a broadly comparative perspective sensitive to Israel’s distinctiveness and its place in theoretical and socio-historical frameworks. In this spirit, the series promotes interpretive studies, based on empirical material, sensitive to social scientific as well as humanistic and ethical concerns.

Series Editor: Yaacov Yadgar, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan


    Editorial Board:
  • Alan Dowty (University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana), Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies 
  • Tamar Katriel (University of Haifa, Haifa), Communication Ethnography 
  • Avi Sagi (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan), Hermeneutics, Cultural studies, and Philosophy 
  • Allan Silver (Columbia University, New York), Sociology 
  • Anthony D. Smith (London School of Economics, London), Nationalism and Ethnicity 
  • Yael Zerubavel (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Jewish Studies and History 
    Series titles:
  • Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Changing Women, Changing Society
    by Dahlia Moore
  • Who is Afraid of Historical Redress: The Israeli Victim / Perpetrator Dichotomy
    by Ruth Amir
  • Mysticism in Twentieth Century Hebrew Literature
    by Hamutal Bar-Yosef
  • The Pale God: Israeli Secularism and Spinoza's Philosophy of Culture
    by Gideon Katz
  • Alternative and Bio-Medicine in Israel: Boundaries and Bridges
    by Emma Averbuch, Judith Shuval
  • Zionist Arabesques: Modern Landscapes, Non-Modern Texts
    by Hadas Yaron
  • Beyond Political Messianism: The Poetry of Second-Generation Religious Zionist Settlers
    by David C. Jacobson
  • A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel
    by Anat Helman
  • The Saints' Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel's Urban Periphery
    by Yoram Bilu
  • The Multicultural Challenge in Israel, edited by Ohad Nachtomy, Avi Sagi
  • State Ideology in Commercial TV: Lessons from the Israeli Case
    by Noam Yuran
  • Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Israel's Political Economy
    by Lev Luis Grinberg
  • Authority and Participation in a New Democracy: Political Struggles in Mapai, Israel's Ruling Party, 1948-1953
    by Avi Bareli
  • The Liberal-Republican Quandry in Israel, Europe and the United States: Early Modern Thought Meets Current Affairs
    by Thomas Maissen
  • Eros and Tragedy: Jewish Male Fantasies 1913-1924
    by Ofer Nur
  • Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Israel's Political Economy
    by Lev Luis Grinberg
  • With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy and Israeli Culture
    by Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch

Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society  “Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society” explores the multiple ways in which contemporary Jews express and define their Jewish identity. Titles will explore the sociological, historical and psychological basis for these identities and the ways in which they reflect a rejection and or integration of the norms, morals and values of post modern society.

Series Editor: Roberta Rosenberg Farber, Yeshiva University, New York


    Editorial Board:
  • Sara Abosch (University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee),  
  • Geoffrey Alderman (University of Buckingham, Buckingham),  
  • Yoram Bilu (Hebrew University, Jerusalem),  
  • Steven M. Cohen (Hebrew Union College, New York),  
  • Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor),  
  • Bryan Daves (Yeshiva University, New York),  
  • Sergio Della Pergola (Hebrew University, Jerusalem),  
  • Simcha Fishbane (Touro College, New York),  
  • Uzi Rebhun (Hebrew University, Jerusalem),  
  • Reeva Simon (Yeshiva University, New York),  
    Series titles:
  • Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951
    by Henry Srebrnik
  • Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy
    by Yoel Finkelman
  • Turn it and Turn it Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts
    by Jon Levisohn
  • Canadian Jews in the 21st Century: Identity and Demography
    by Jack Jedwab
  • Identity and Pedagogy in Holocaust Education: The Case of Israeli State Schools

Jews in Space and Time  In the millennia since their exile from the Land of Israel, the Jewish people have settled all over the globe, founding communities, interacting with their non-Jewish neighbors, and adding their experiences to the history books. “Jews in Space and Time” series brings together some of the best scholars in their respective fields to explore the histories of Jewish communities in different geographical areas and historical eras, deepening our understanding of Jews and the relationships that they forged within their host countries.


    Editorial Board:
  • Ira Robinson (Concordia University, Austin),  
  • Nils Roemer (University of Texas, Dallas),  
    Series titles:
  • Creating the Chupah: The Zionist Movement and the Drive for Jewish Communal Unity in Canada, 1898-1921
    by Henry Srebrnik
  • Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit
    by Ira Robinson
  • German Jewry between Hope and Despair, 1871-1933, edited by Nils Roemer
  • The Jew in Medieval Iberia: 1100-1500
    by Jonathan Ray
  • Bo, Jenny and I: Surviving the Holocaust in Britain: A Family Memoir
    by Huguette Herrmann
  • Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash
    by Norman Simms

Jews of Poland  Focusing on the Jewish experience in Poland, the first volumes of “The Jews of Poland” series feature studies of Polish-Jewish identity and memoirs of Holocaust witnesses and survivors.

Series Editor: Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts


Judaism and Jewish Life  “Judaism and Jewish Life” includes scholarly studies of Jewish texts and Jewish life throughout Jewish history and in contemporary times.

Series Editor: Simcha Fishbane, Touro College, New York


    Editorial Board:
  • Geoffrey Alderman  (University of Buckingham, Buckingham),  
  • Meir Bar Ilan  (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan),  
  • Herbert Basser  (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario),  
  • Donatella Ester Di Cesare  (Universita La Sapienza, Rome),  
  • Roberta Rosenberg Farber  (Yeshiva University, New York), Series Associate Editor  
  • Andreas Nachma  (Touro College, Berlin) 
  • Ira Robinson  (Concordia University, Montreal) 
  • Nissan Rubin  (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan),  
  • Susan Starr Sered  (Suffolk University, Boston) 
  • Reeva Spector Simon  (Yeshiva University, New York) 
    Series titles:
  • Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished: A Study of the Status 'Female Slave' in Early Jewish Law
    by Diane Kriger
  • Cultures in Collision and Conversation: Essays in the Intellectual History of the Jews
    by David Berger
  • Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land
    by Monty Noam Penkower
  • Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud
    by Shulamit Valler
  • The Shtiebelization of Modern Jewry: Studies in Custom and Ritual in the Judaic Tradition: Social-Anthropological Perspectives
    by Simcha Fishbane
  • Wandering Jew in America
    by Uzi Rebhun
  • Without Red Strings or Holy Water: Maimonides’ Mishne Torah, edited by H. Norman Strickman
  • Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations
    by David Berger
  • Answering a Question with a Question. Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought, edited by Lewis Aron, Libby Henik
  • Vixens Disturbing Vineyards: The Embarrassment and Embracement of Scriptures - A Festschrift Honoring Harry Fox LeBeit Yoreh, edited by Aubrey Glazer, Justin Lewis, Miryam Segal, Tzemah Yoreh
  • Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate
    by Meir Persoff
  • Jewish Thought in Dialogue: Essays on Thinkers, Theologies and Moral Theories
    by Geoffrey Alderman, David Shatz
  • Encounters of Consequence: Jewish Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
    by Michael Oppenheim
  • Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist’s Lens: From Morocco to the Negev, Zion to The Big Apple, the Closet to the Bimah
    by Moshe Shokeid
  • New Rituals - Old Societies: Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel
    by Nissan Rubin
  • Variations on the Messianic Theme. A Case Study of Interfaith Dialogue
    by Marion Wyse
  • Marranos on the Moradas. Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States
    by Norman Simms
  • The Wisdom of Love: Man, Woman and God in Jewish Canonical Literature
    by Naftali Rothenberg
  • A Roadmap to the Heavens: An Anthropological Study of Hegemony Among Priests, Sages, and Laymen
    by Sigalit Ben-Zion
  • A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth-Century Galicia
    by Joseph Margoshes, translated by Ira Robinson, edited by Simcha Fishbane, Ira Robinson
  • Translating a Tradition: Studies in American Jewish History
    by Ira Robinson
  • Controversy and Crisis: Studies in the History of the Jews in Modern Britain
    by Geoffrey Alderman
  • Time and Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives
    by Nissan Rubin
  • Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism
    by Jacob Neusner
  • The Boldness of an Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein - "The Arukh Hashulhan"
    by Simcha Fishbane
  • Development, Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools
    by Jeffrey Kress
  • Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism
    by Yosef Salmon
  • Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition
    by Antonella Castelnuovo, Bella Kotik-Friedgut
  • Zohar Harakia
    by Philip Caplan

Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History  “Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History” comprises original scholarly works on the history of Jewish philosophy, theology, and ethics, as well as translations of pre-modern and modern classics of Jewish thought.


    Editorial Board:
  • Gershon Greenberg  (American University, Washington, DC) 
  • Steven Katz (Boston University, Boston),  
  • David Shatz (Yeshiva University , New York),  
    Series titles:
  • Jewish Faith in a Changing World: A Modern Introduction to the World and Ideas of Classical Jewish Philosophy
    by Rafael Shucat
  • Democratizing Judaism
    by Jack J. Cohen
  • The Muselmann at the Water Cooler: A Study of Survival in Extreme and Day-to-Day Situations: The Inside View of a Holocaust Survivor
    by Eli Pfefferkorn
  • The Jewish Conundrum in World History
    by Alexander Militarev
  • Holy Russia, Sacred Israel: Jewish-Christian Encounters in Russian Religious Thought
    by Dominic Rubin
  • The Scroll of Secrets: The Hidden Messianic Vision of R. Nachman of Breslav
    by Zvi Mark
  • Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age
    by Jack J. Cohen
  • The Mind Behind the Gospels: A Commentary to Matthew 1–14
    by Herbert Basser
  • Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the First Book of Psalms:, translated by H. Norman Strickman
  • Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the Second Book of Psalms, translated by H. Norman Strickman
  • The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture
    by Eliezer Schweid, edited by Leonard Levin
  • The Reasons for the Commandments in Jewish Thought
    by Isaac Heinemann, translated by Leonard Levin
  • The Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation of Jewish Culture: Philosophy of Biblical Narrative
    by Eliezer Schweid, translated by Leonard Levin
  • The Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation of Jewish Culture: Philosophy of Biblical Law
    by Eliezer Schweid, translated by Leonard Levin
  • Faith, Reason, and Politics: Essays on the History of Jewish Thought
    by Michah Gottlieb, Alex Holder

Studies in Orthodox Judaism  "Studies in Orthodox Judaism" will feature monographs and collected studies dealing with all aspects of Orthodox Judaism, including history, Halakhah, sociology, and literature. In addition, the series will promote publication of English translations of important Hebrew studies and the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations which have been adapted into appropriate book form. Manuscripts submitted to the series will be subject to standard academic referral procedures prior to their approval for publication.  This series accepts unsolicited proposals.

Series Editor: Marc B. Shapiro, University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania


    Editorial Board:
  • Alan Brill (Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey),  
  • Benjamin Brown (Hebrew University, Jerusalem),  
  • David Ellenson (Hebrew Union College, New York),  
  • Adam S. Ferziger (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan),  
  • Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford, Oxford),  
  • Jeffrey Gurock (Yeshiva University, New York),  
  • Shlomo Tikoshinski (Lander Institute: Haredi Campus, Jerusalem),  
    Series titles:
  • The Pillar of Volozhin: Rabbi Naftali Zvi yehuda Berlin and the World of 19th Century Lithuanian Torah Scholarship
    by Gil Perl

New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism Series Editor: Shaul Magid


    Series titles:
  • Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism
    by Aryeh Cohen

Slavic Studies

The Unknown Nineteenth Century  "The Unknown Nineteenth Century" is a book series focused on the discovery of new literary facts in the history of nineteenth-century Russian literature.  Each book in the series brings to light unknown texts and authors, unknown historical materials, unknown literary-historical trends, unknown formal features, etc.  Each book is based in fundamental research, be it archival, computational, historical, linguistic, or otherwise.  The scope of the series is broad chronologically: our nineteenth century stretches from Karamzin to Bunin and beyond.  It is no less broad methodologically, and embraces a range of approaches from the philological to the sociological.  Yet, the same thing can be said of every book in this series.  Namely, that it came as a surprise to scholars and students in the field because what it describes was unknown to any of us before the publication of the book; rather than reinterpret the well-known, these books provide new material for new interpretations and narratives and force us to reexamine old ones. 

Series Editor: Joe Peschio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee


    Editorial Board:
  • Angela Brintlinger (Ohio State University, Columbus), Associate Professor and Graduate Studies Chair  
  • Alyssa Gillespie (University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana), Associate Professor, Russian Language and Literature 
  • David Powelstock (Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts), Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature 
  • Ilya Vinitsky (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), Associate Professor, Chair 

The Real Twentieth Century

While along the legendary quay
There came not the calendrical
But the real twentieth century
—Anna Akhmatova, Poem Without a Hero

“The Real Twentieth Century” is a book series devoted to the twentieth century as a distinct and coherent phenomenon in the field of Slavic studies.  Its aim is to promote scholarly inquiry into various aspects of Russian, or other eastern European, literatures and cultures that in retrospect appear definitive of that era.  Studies in this series seek to analyze cultural forms that played a significant role in shaping the Russian (or eastern European) experience in the twentieth century, or that in some way reveal underlying historical, political, or aesthetic factors peculiar to it.  In the spirit of Akhmatova’s Poem Without A Hero—itself a definitive text of the era—the series takes “twentieth century” to mean a particular set of historical and cultural factors rather than merely a range of dates.  Revolutions, wars, totalitarianism, and dissent are part of it, but so are aesthetic innovation, rapid technological change, and consumerism.  Ultimately, the series aims at historical assessment of our remarkable recent past.

        Series Editor: Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California, Los Angeles


    Editorial Board:
  • Stephen Blackwell (University of Tennessee, Knoxville),  
  • Nancy Condee (Pittsburg University, Pittsburg),  
  • Caryl Emerson (Princeton University, Princeton),  
  • Mikhail Iampolskii (New York University, New York),  
  • Galin Tihanov (Manchester University, Manchester),  

Myths and Taboos in Russian Culture  "Myths and Taboos in Russian Culture" will be concerned with the generative myths that serve as the foundation of Russian cultural identity, and/or with taboos and other restraints on free artistic expression that result from the Russian historical experience of tight ideological control over thought and cultural endeavor. In other words, books in this series will explore, on the one hand, the master cultural narratives that are crafted by artists, writers, and intellectuals—including those that are mandated, whether explicitly or implicitly, by the political elite, and those that are positioned outside or in opposition to circles of power—and, on the other hand, narratives that are forbidden or unthinkable, all in an attempt to probe the fundamental "operating principles" of the Russian cultural heritage. The series is conceived as having a broad scope and may include studies of any historical period and any cultural manifestation.

Series Editor: Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana


    Editorial Board:
  • David Bethea (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature 
  • Eliot Borenstein (New York University, New York), Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies 
  • Julia Bekman Chadaga (Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota), Assistant Professor of Russian Studies 
  • Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg), Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies  
  • Caryl Emerson (Princeton University, Princeton), A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures 
  • Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (Fordham University, New York), Professor of History 
  • Marcus Levitt (USC, Los Angeles), Professor of Russian Culture and Literature 
  • Alex Martin (University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana), Associate Professor of History 
  • Irene Masing-Delic (Ohio State University, Columbus), Professor, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures 
  • Joe Peschio (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee), Assistant Professor of Russian Studies 
  • Irina Reyfman (Columbia University, New York), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature 
  • Stephanie Sandler (Harvard University, Cambridge), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures 

Ars Rossika  “Ars Rossika” presents a certain “stock-taking” attitude toward Russian literary and cultural studies at a time when the role of the academic book in its traditional format is itself being reconsidered. These scholarly critical volumes feature intellectually compelling and authoritative ideas which subsequent generations will consider as true classics. No singular critical methodology or theoretical optic will dominate; what will dominate in each case is a sophisticated conceptual framework and an impeccable scholarly awareness and judgment. The series includes foregrounding works written in English, translations (from the Russian) of especially important and ground-breaking studies, and collections of essays featuring top scholars' best, most representative work, often from different time periods.

Series Editor: David Bethea, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Oxford University, Oxford


    Series titles:
  • Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II
    by Vera Proskurina
  • All the Same the Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition
    by Caryl Emerson
  • Essays on Russian Literature: Moral-Philosophical Configurations
    by Robert Jackson
  • Rank and Style: Russians in State Service, Life, and Literature
    by Irina Reyfman
  • Rank and Style: Russians in State Service, Life and Literature

Borderlines: Russian and East European - Jewish Studies  “Borderlines: Russian and East European — Jewish Studies” explores the intersection of East European and Jewish Studies in history, philosophy, literature, the visual arts, and anthropology.The volumes in the “Borderlines” series challenge assumptions about the definitions of Jewish Studies and Russian and East European studies, emphasize new theoretical approaches, and closely parse formal structures to get at new meanings or trace a single theme or trope across disciplines, languages, geographical regions, and time periods. “Borderlines” also includes studies that focus on a single author, period, institution, event, or aspect of daily life among Russian and East European Jews.

Series Editor: Harriet Murav, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


    Editorial Board:
  • Mikhail Krutikov  (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor),  
  • Alice Nakhimovsky  (Colgate University, Hamilton, New York),  
  • David Shneer  (University of Denver, Denver, Colorado),  
  • Anna Shternshis  (University of Toronto, Toronto),  
    Series titles:
  • “I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left”: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky
    by Marat Grinberg
  • Jacob's Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature
    by Marina Aptekman
  • Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since the 1880s
    by Henrietta Mondry
  • Russian Idea: Jewish Presence: Essays on Russian-Jewish Intellectual Life at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    by Brian Horowitz
  • Babel in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity
    by Efraim Sicher

Companions to Russian Literature  "Companions to Russian Literature" features supplementary volumes designed to enrich and inform the reading of key works in the history of Russian literature. ASP Companions are accessible guides for general readers without knowledge of Russian or extensive familiarity with Russian literary history, while also providing an au courant introduction to advanced study. Each volume is written by an individual scholar with recognized expertise on the work. Each volume provides information essential to understanding the text in its cultural and historical context, while also illuminating the most pertinent interpretive issues and providing an essential bibliography for further study.

Series Editor: Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

For manuscript submissions or more information about Companions to Russian Literature, please contact press@academicstudiespress.com.


    Series titles:
  • Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: A Companion
    by Diane O. Thompson
  • Checking out Chekhov: A Companion to Anton Chekhov’s Plays
    by Sharon Carnicke

Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century  “Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century” presents lively scholarly dialogue across academic disciplines and national borders about events, figures, ideas, and cultural artifacts that have defined modern Russian culture. Monographs, thematic collections, anthologies, as well as scholarly guides to authors/thinkers, periods, historical events, and texts examine the literary, visual and material culture of the “long” twentieth century-from one fin-de-siecle (1890s) to the other (2000s). This series brings together some of the most far-reaching studies in literature, history, visual art, film, theater, and anthropology, and helps to reframe key questions that will animate scholarship of twentieth-century Russia in decades to come.

Series Editor: Boris Wolfson, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts


    Editorial Board:
  • Anthony Anemone (The New School, New York),  
  • Robert Bird  (The University of Chicago, Chicago),  
  • Eliot Borenstein  (New York University, New York),  
  • Angela Brintlinger  (The Ohio State University, Columbus),  
  • Karen Evans-Romaine  (Ohio University, Athens),  
  • Jochen Hellbeck  (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey),  
  • Lilya Kaganovsky  (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
  • Christina Kiaer  (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois),  
  • Alaina Lemon (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor),  
  • Simon Morrison  (Princeton University, Princeton),  
  • Eric Naiman  (University of California, Berkeley) 
  • Joan Neuberger  (University of Texas , Austin) 
  • Lyudmila Parts  (McGill University, Montreal),  
  • Ethan Pollock  (Brown University, Providence),  
  • Cathy Popkin  (Columbia University, New York),  
  • Stephanie Sandler  (Harvard University, Cambridge),  
    Series titles:
  • Charms of Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
    by Mark Lipovetsky
  • The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion
    by Lyudmila Parts
  • Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes: Essays on Culture, Civilization and Barbarism
    by Irene Masing-Delic
  • A Century of Russian Art, 1900-2000
    by John E. Bowlt
  • Strangers in a Strange Land: Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries
    by Paul Manning

Cultural Syllabus  Series Editor: Mark Lipovetsky, University of Colorado, Boulder


Out of the Series


Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History  Lazar Fleishman (Stanford University) has accepted an invitation to serve as editor of a new series, "Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History." An emphasis will be given to the exploration of artistic aspects of literary works in their broad literary and cultural context and to the investigation of major periods and trends of literary and cultural history. The series will be launched with Hugh McLean's book comprising his essays on Lev Tolstoy. It will be followed by Thomas Seifrid's work on Andrei Platonov's Foundation Pit and Oleg Lekmanov's biography of Osip Mandelshtam (in English). 

Series Editor: Lazar Fleishman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California


Imperial Encounters in Russian History  "Imperial Encounters in Russian History" will include scholarly monographs, collections, and theoretical works which discuss Russia as a multi-peopled, multi-confessional, and multi-ethnic imperial space.  Topics will include the interactions between and among religions, nations, and ethnicities, and between them and the state, quotidian encounters, population transfers, borderlands and frontiers, and mappings and cultural geographies. This series will conceptualize the structure and complexities of empire, especially over the last three centuries.  

Series Editor: Gary Marker, Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook


    Editorial Board:
  • Robert Geraci (University of Virginia, Charlottesville),  
  • Bruce Grant (New York University, New York),  
  • Michael Khodarkovsky (Harvard University, Cambridge),  
  • Nadieszda Kizenko (SUNY Albany, Albany),  
  • Douglas Northrop (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor),  
  • Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania),  
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