August 13, 2020
We are pleased to present the latest in a new series of blog posts, ASP Abridged, in which authors give readers a short and sweet introduction to their latest book.
Here, Kinya Nishi introduces us to his new book, Fate, Nature, and Literary Form: The Politics of the Tragic in Japanese Literature.
August 10, 2020
This week we’re featuring Schindler’s Listed: The Search for My Father’s Lost Gold by Mark Biederman with Randi Biederman. The book is currently available for purchase at $10.00, $15.00, and $19.95. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
July 29, 2020
Jack Seeley was a tragic figure in North American history. His noble quest during WWII and the early postwar period to bring mental health to the masses straddled both sides of the border. He was the principal architect of the first major mental health programs in Canadian schools, a history that is now so relevant. He was also a scholar working in the fields of sociology and psychoanalysis whose collaboration was valued by important American thinkers like Erving Goffman, David Riesman and Bruno Bettleheim. His book, Crestwood Heights is a classic of the 1950s “pop sociology” genre.
July 27, 2020
This week we’re featuring the AATSEEL 2014 Best Literary Translation into English winner, “I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms edited by Anthony Anemone & Peter Scotto. The book is currently available for purchase at $18.00, $25.00, and $35. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
July 20, 2020
This week we’re featuring the CHOICE Award-winning Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 by Victoria Khiterer. The book is currently available for purchase at $20.00, $30.00, and $42. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish history, including the creation of the Jewish community, the expulsions of Jews from the city, government persecution and Jewish pogroms, the Beilis Affair, the participation of Jews in the political, economic, and cultural life of Kiev, and their contribution to the development of the city.
July 13, 2020
This week we’re featuring Writing Palestine 1933-1950 by Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon. The book is currently available for purchase at $15.00, $20.00, and $32. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
From her immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 until her death in 1950 American-born Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon worked as a reporter for The Palestine Post (later The Jerusalem Post), while freelancing for periodicals in Palestine and abroad. Close to 60 years after her death, this edited collection of Bar-Adon’s writing offers a vivid view both of daily life in the Jewish and Arab communities of pre-State Israel, and of the burning issues of the day.
This week we’re featuring Writing Palestine 1933-1950 by Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon. The book is currently available for purchase at $15.00, $20.00, and $32. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
From her immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 until her death in 1950 American-born Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon worked as a reporter for The Palestine Post (later The Jerusalem Post), while freelancing for periodicals in Palestine and abroad. Close to 60 years after her death, this edited collection of Bar-Adon’s writing offers a vivid view both of daily life in the Jewish and Arab communities of pre-State Israel, and of the burning issues of the day.
July 6, 2020
This week we’re featuring Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine edited by Oksana Maksymchuk & Max Rosochinsky. The book is currently available for purchase at $12.00, $16.00, and $23.95. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
This anthology brings together some of the most compelling poetic voices from different regions of Ukraine. Young and old, female and male, somber and ironic, tragic and playful, filled with extraordinary terror and ordinary human delights, the voices recreate the human sounds of war in its tragic complexity.
June 29, 2020
This week we’re featuring Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics edited by Shmuly Yanklowitz. The book is currently available for purchase at $15.00, $20.00, and $32.95. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. The contributions contained in Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics by members of the progressive Orthodox Jewish association Torat Chayim are rich in detail and offer new paradigms for the practical observance of kashrut that have swirled in the ether for generations.
This week we’re featuring Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics edited by Shmuly Yanklowitz. The book is currently available for purchase at $15.00, $20.00, and $32.95. Choose the price you think is fair and fits your budget!
Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. The contributions contained in Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics by members of the progressive Orthodox Jewish association Torat Chayim are rich in detail and offer new paradigms for the practical observance of kashrut that have swirled in the ether for generations.
