Book Series

Jewish Studies

Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah This series will publish 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; Modern and contemporary thought. The series also intends to encourage studies of 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. In addition, the series will promote publication of English translations of important Hebrew studies, and publication of outstanding Ph.D. 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.

Editorial Board:
• Ada Rapoport Albert  (University College, London) 
• Gad Freudenthal  (C.N.R.S, Paris) 
• Gideon Freudenthal  (Tel Aviv University) 
• Moshe Idel  (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 
• Raphael Jospe  (Bar Ilan University) 
• Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshiva University) 
• Menachem Kellner  (Haifa University) 
• Daniel Lasker  (Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva) 
• Dov Schwartz  (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan), Series Editor  

Series titles:
• 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, vol. 1, 2
  by Jose Faur
• Wisdom’s Little Sister: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought
  by Abraham Melamed
• Maimonides as a Biblical Interpretor
• Modern Jewish Thinkers: From Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig
  by Gershon Greenberg

Judaism and Jewish Life The Judaism and Jewish Life Series will focus on scholarly studies of Jewish texts and Jewish life throughout Jewish history and contemporary times. Use of sociological, anthropological, and social historical approaches are encouraged.

Editorial Board:
• Geoffrey Alderman  (University of Buckingham, England) 
• Meir Bar Ilan  (Bar Ilan University, Israel) 
• Herbert Basser  (Queen’s University, Canada) 
• Donatella Ester Di Cesare  (Universita La Sapienza, Italy) 
• Roberta Rosenberg Farber  (Yeshiva University, New York), Series Associate Editor  
• Simcha Fishbane  (Touro College, New York), Series Editor  
• Andreas Nachma  (Touro College, Berlin) 
• Ira Robinson  (Concordia University, Montreal) 
• Nissan Rubin  (Bar Ilan University, Israel) 
• Susan Starr Sered  (Suffolk University, Boston) 
• Reeva Spector Simon  (Yeshiva University, New York) 

Series titles:
• 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, 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 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
• Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished: A Study of the Status 'Female Slave' in Early Jewish Law
  by Diane Kriger
• Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land
  by Monty Noam Penkower
• Edicts and Verdicts: Jewish Life in 19th Century Palestine as Reflected in the Legal and Rabbinical Writings of the Period
  by Haim Katz
• Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud
  by Shulamit Valler
• Without Red Strings or Holy Water: Maimonides’ Mishne Torah, edited by H. Norman Strickman

Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History This series is composed of 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, ),  
• Leonard Levin  (Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York), Series Editor  
• David Shatz (Yeshiva University , New York),  

Series titles:
• 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
• The Jewish Conundrum in World History
  by Alexander Militarev
• Democratizing Judaism
  by Jack J. Cohen
• The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac
  by Yuri Leving

Israel: Society, Culture, and History Series editor -- Yaacov Yadgar (Bar-Ilan University)

Editorial Board:
• Alan Dowty (University of Notre Dame, Indiana), Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies 
• Tamar Katriel (University of Haifa, Israel), Communication Ethnography 
• Avi Sagi (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel), Hermeneutics, Cultural studies, and Philosophy 
• Allan Silver (Columbia University, New York), Sociology 
• Anthony D. Smith (London School of Economics, London, England, United Kingdom), Nationalism and Ethnicity 
• Yael Zerubavel (Rutgers University, New Jersey), Jewish Studies and History 

Series titles:
• 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
• Zionist Arabesques: Modern Landscapes, Non-Modern Texts
  by Hadas Yaron
• State Ideology in Commercial TV: Lessons from the Israeli Case
  by Noam Yuran
• Mysticism in Modern Hebrew Poetry
  by Hamutal Bar-Yosef
• Beyond Political Messianism: The Poetry of Second Generation Religious Zionist Settlers
  by David C. Jacobson
• Who is Afraid of Historical Redress: The Israeli Victim / Perpetrator Dichotomy
  by Ruth Amir
• A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel
  by Anat Helman
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Changing Women, Changing Society
  by Dahlia Moore
• Israel's Political Economy: A Historical Perspective from Below
  by Lev Luis Grinberg
• State Religious Education in Israel: Between Integration and Segregation
  by Zehavit Gross
• The Pale God: Israeli Secularism and Spinoza's Philosophy of Culture
  by Gideon Katz

Anti-Semitism in America Dr. Eunice G. Pollack (University of  North Texas) is editing a new multidisciplinary book series on Antisemitism in America for Academic Studies Press. The subject is broadly conceived and includes anti-Zionist and anti-Israel discourse and activities. The books can be in the fields of history, sociology, political science, psychology, literature, music, art, etc. I am currently editing the first volume in the series on Antisemitism on the Campus: Past and Present.The inquiries and proposals for manuscripts in the series are welcome. 
Please contact at: _egpollack@aol.com_ (mailto:egpollack@aol.com)  or
_epollack@unt.edu_ (mailto:epollack@unt.edu). 

Series titles:
• Anti-Semitism 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

Jews of Poland Series Editor -- Antony Polonsky

Series titles:
• Bieganski: The Brute Polack Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture
  by Danusha Goska
• A Partisan from Vilna
  by Rachel Margolis, edited by Marjorie Margolis
• The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler
  by Edmund Kessler
• Life In Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950
  by Shimon Redlich

Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society  Jewish Identities in Post Modern Society series 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, mores and values of post modern society.

Series Editor:  Roberta Rosenberg Farber (Yeshiva University)

Editorial Board:
• Sara Abosch (University of Memphis, ),  
• Geoffrey Alderman (University of Buckingham, ),  
• Yoram Bilu (Hebrew University, ),  
• Steven M. Cohen (Hebrew Union College, ),  
• Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan, ),  
• Bryan Daves (Yeshiva University, ),  
• Sergio Della Pergola (Hebrew University, ),  
• Simcha Fishbane (Touro College, ),  
• Uzi Rebhun (Hebrew University, ),  
• Reeva Simon (Yeshiva University, ),  

Series titles:
• Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951
  by Henry Srebrnik
• Canadian Jews in the 21st Century: Identity and Demography
  by Jack Jedwab
• Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature, Artscroll, and the Construction of Ultra-Orthodox Identity
  by Yoel Finkelman

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.  Academic Studies Press is excited to announce a new series which 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 (Concrodia University, ),  
• Nils Roemer (University of Texas, Dallas, ),  

Series titles:
• Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit
• German Jewry Between Hope and Despair, 1871-1933, edited by Nils Roemer
• Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash

Slavic Studies

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).

Editorial Board:
• Lazar Fleishman  (Stanford University), Series Editor 

Series titles:
• Ivan Konevskoi: "Wise Child" of Russian Symbolism
  by Joan Delaney Grossman
• Mandelstam
  by Oleg Lekmanov, translated by Tatiana Retivov
• The Superstitious Muse: Mythopoetic Thinking and Russian Literature
  by David Bethea
• Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts
  by Marcus Levitt
• A Reader's Guide to Nabokov's "Lolita"
  by Julian Connolly
• Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
  by Viktor Zhivov
• A Companion to Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit
  by Thomas Seifrid
• Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, Vol. I
  by Valentina Polukhina
• Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, Vol. II
  by Valentina Polukhina
• The Marsh of Gold. Pasternak’s Writings on Inspiration and Creation, translated by Angela Livingstone, edited by Angela Livingstone
• In Quest of Tolstoy
  by Hugh McLean
• All the Same the Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition
  by Caryl Emerson
• Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel
  by Yuri Leving
• Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter
  by Oliver Smith
• A Labyrinth of Linkages in Tolstoi's Anna Karenina
  by Gary Browning

Borderlines: Russian and East European - Jewish Studies The series seeks submissions in history, philosophy, literature, the visual arts, and anthropology, and welcomes studies that explore the intersections among these fields. Particular encouragement is given to submissions that: (1) challenge assumptions about the definitions of Jewish Studies and Russian and East European studies; (2) emphasize new theoretical approaches; and (3) 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 seeks studies that focus on a single author, period, institution, event, or aspect of daily life among Russian and East-European Jews.

Editorial Board:
• Mikhail Krutikov  (University of Michigan) 
• Harriet Murav  (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Series Editor  
• Alice Nakhimovsky  (Colgate University) 
• David Shneer  (University of Denver) 
• Anna Shternshis  (University of Toronto) 

Series titles:
• Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to the Present
  by Henrietta Mondry
• “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

Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century The series focuses on fostering lively scholarly dialogue across academicdisciplines and national borders about events, figures, ideas, andcultural artefacts that have defined modern Russian culture. Monographs,thematic collections, anthologies, as well as scholarly guides toauthors/thinkers, periods, historical events, and texts will examine theliterary, visual and material culture of the "long" twentieth century -from one fin-de-siecle (1890s) to the other (2000s). One of the series'primary goals is to bring together some of the most far-reaching studiesin literature, history, visual art, film, theater, and anthropology, andto help reframe key questions that will animate scholarship oftwentieth-century Russia in decades to come. All manuscripts submitted tothe series will undergo rigorous peer review.

Editorial Board:
• Anthony Anemone (The New School) 
• Robert Bird  (The University of Chicago) 
• Eliot Borenstein  (New York University) 
• Angela Brintlinger  (The Ohio State University) 
• Karen Evans-Romaine  (Ohio University) 
• Jochen Hellbeck  (Rutgers University) 
• Lilya Kaganovsky  (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
• Christina Kiaer  (Northwestern University) 
• Alaina Lemon (University of Michigan) 
• Simon Morrison  (Princeton University) 
• Eric Naiman  (University of California, Berkeley) 
• Joan Neuberger  (University of Texas , Austin) 
• Ludmila Parts  (McGill University) 
• Ethan Pollock  (Brown University) 
• Cathy Popkin  (Columbia University) 
• Stephanie Sandler  (Harvard University) 
• Boris Wolfson  (Amherst College), Series Editor 

Series titles:
• 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
• Charms of Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
  by Mark Lipovetsky
• A Century of Russian Art, 1900-2000
  by John E. Bowlt

Out of the Series

Series titles:
• New Directions in Anglo-Jewish History
  by Geoffrey Alderman
• The Communal Gadfly. Jews, British Jews and the Jewish State: Asking the Subversive Questions
  by Geoffrey Alderman
• Jewish Peoplehood: Change and Challenge, edited by Ezra Kopelowitz, Menachem Revivi
• Denying of Denial: Debates About the Demography and Geo-Politics of the Holocaust, edited by Alfred Kokh, Pavel Polian
• Blood Will Tell: Vampires as Political Metaphors Before World War I

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 au courant introduction to advanced study. Each volume is written by an individual scholar with recognized expertise on the work. It provides information essential to understanding the text in its cultural and historical context while also illuminating the most pertinent interpretive issues and providing essential bibliography for further study.

Series Editor: Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California

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

Editorial Board:
• Thomas Seifrid (University of Southern California, ),  

Cultural Syllabus

Series titles:
• The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader, edited by Dennis G. Ioffe, Frederick H. White

Ars Rossika

The goal of the “Ars Rossika” series is the publication of English-language volumes that represent 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.  We are especially interested in authors and works with the potential, over time, to become scholarly-critical “classics” – essays and volumes that subsequent generations will return to as intellectually compelling and authoritative.  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.  Our original plan involves foregrounding works written in English, however, we are also prepared to undertake, in some cases, translations (from the Russian) of especially important and ground-breaking studies.  Collections of essays featuring a top scholar’s best, most representative work, often from different time periods and appearing in heretofore hard to locate places, are particularly attractive.  The vetting and editorial/production processes will be rapid but rigorous, the size of the volume will be flexible, and the possibility of joint e-publication will be, where appropriate, pursued.  The series is published by Academic Studies Press (Boston) under the general editorship of David Bethea (Wisconsin, Oxford).