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6/23/2010 10:02:19 PM
Please find our booth at the conference book exhibition to see our new books and buy them with a conference discount. Please take this opportunity to meet our director, Dr. Igor Nemirovsky.

1/7/2010 12:23:34 AM
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.

1/5/2010 11:12:17 PM

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.

The first title in the series, Canadian Jews in the 21st Century: Identity and Demography by Jack Jedwab will publish in June 2010.

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 – Jewish Institute of Religion
Bryan Daves – Yeshiva University
Sergio Della Pergola – Hebrew University
Simcha Fishbane – Touro College
Deborah Dash Moore – University of Michigan
Uzi Rebhun – Hebrew University
Reeva Simon –Yeshiva University
Chaim I. Waxman – Rutgers University

For more information about this exciting new series exploring contemporary Jewish identity, please contact us at press@academicstudiespress.com.

12/30/2009 12:36:19 AM

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).

12/21/2009 10:57:10 PM
The Review of Jewish Thought (RJT), a new English language journal of Jewish Philosophy to be published in the USA by Academic Studies Press, is accepting manuscripts for consideration for the first few issues. This periodical will publish articles 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 journal encourages studies on the 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 thought, and the Jewish contribution to the sciences. All submissions will be double (blind) peer reviewed.

Those interested in contributing to this journal should send manuscripts to: Review of Jewish Thought, Dept. of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900 Israel. Manuscripts should follow the guidelines of The Chicago Manual of Style (Documentation 1).

Editors: Steven Harvey (Bar-Ilan University) and Dov Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University)

Editorial Board:
• Resianne Fontaine (The University of Amsterdam)
• Paul Franks (The University of Toronto)
• Zeev Gries (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• Warren Zev Harvey (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Diana Lobel (Boston University)
• James Robinson (The University of Chicago)
• Bernard Septimus (Harvard University)

11/9/2009 10:45:50 PM
  

BRIGHTON, Massachusetts (August 31, 2009) – Academic Studies Press, a scholarly publisher in Jewish and Slavic Studies, has signed an exclusive distribution arrangement with Codasat Canada, Ltd to cover the trade and academic markets in Canada.

“Through Codasat’s team of experienced representatives covering retail and wholesale accounts as well as university faculties and libraries across Canada, we will be able to reach Canadian customers on a local and more personalized level,” said Igor Nemirovsky, Executive Director, Academic Studies Press.

Codasat Canada works with the University of Toronto Press Distribution Services. Through this partnership, Canadian scholars, libraries and bookstores will benefit from a Canadian source for all Academic Studies Press titles and payment in Canadian dollars.  For more information regarding ordering ASP titles in Canada and University Toronto Press Distribution Services, please contact customer service at 1 (800) 565-9523.

11/9/2009 10:42:31 PM
 Academic Studies Press is pleased to participate in the 41st Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, which will be held December 20-22, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. We invite you to visit our stand and view our latest titles in Jewish Studies. All delegates are eligible to receive a special promotional discount. Please contact our sales and publicity department to learn more about our participation at this event at (617) 782-6290 or via email at sales@academicstudiespress.com

11/9/2009 10:36:45 PM
Academic Studies Press is pleased to participate in the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference at the Marriott Copley Place November 12-15, 2009. We invite you to visit our stand 120 during the event to view our new titles in Slavic Studies. Delegates will receive a special discount on all orders written during the event!

7/24/2009 12:41:09 AM
The Hebrew Universiry in Jerusalem (Mount Scopus campus) houses a congress August 2 - 6. Please find Academic Studies Press stand (# 41) at the Congress' book exhibition.

7/2/2009 8:37:16 PM
Dr. Eunice G. Pollack 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. I welcome inquiries and proposals for manuscripts in the
series.

You can contact me at: _egpollack@aol.com_ (mailto:egpollack@aol.com)  or
_epollack@unt.edu_ (mailto:epollack@unt.edu).

Eunice G. Pollack, PhD
Coeditor, Encyclopedia of American  Jewish History, 2 vols. (2008)
History and Jewish Studies
University of  North Texas

6/19/2009 8:44:29 PM
Please look for our stand at the AJL Convention in Chicago, July 3 - 7.

2/18/2009 6:40:59 PM
Call for manuscripts

Academic Studies Press announces a new book series:
ISRAEL: SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND HISTORY.

The series is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of complex interactions among culture, identity, history and power in Israeli society and politics. It encourages nuanced interpretation in a broad range of theoretical approaches, transcending ideological and disciplinary boundaries. Books published 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.
The series promotes interpretive studies, based on empirical material, sensitive to social scientific as well as humanistic and ethical concerns.

Israel: Society, Culture and History welcomes submissions of book proposals in areas such as sociology, political studies, history, communication studies, cultural studies and literature.
Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed.

Book proposals can be emailed to the series editor at yadgary@gmail.com.

Editorial Board:
Alan Dowty, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Tamar Katriel, Communication Ethnography, University of Haifa.
Avi Sagi, Hermeneutics, Cultural studies, and Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University.
Allan Silver, Sociology, Columbia University.
Yael Zerubavel, Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University.
Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism and Ethnicity, London School of Economics 
For further inquiries please contact the series editor:

Yaacov Yadgar
Department of Political Studies
Bar-Ilan University
Ram-Gan, Israel
yadgary@gmail.com

10/16/2008 11:45:48 PM
All new and forthcoming titles can be ordered/preordered at this web-site,
or by email sales@academicstudiespress.com,
or by phone: 617-7826290.
We offer 20 % discount for all direct orders.The discount will appear on the invoice.