Academic Studies Press - 2015 - Spring 2016 Catalog (All Subjects)

Academic Studies Press Catalog

2015 — Spring 2016

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n 2015–2016, Academic Studies Press is pleased to launch a number of new series. “Ukrainian Studies,” headed by Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas), seeks to carve out new arenas in Ukrainian studies and develop and improve existing ones, welcoming both traditional approaches as well as innovative frameworks that experiment with scholarly forms. “Polish Studies,” under the editorship of Halina Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin – Madison), aims to showcase the richness of Polish studies in the twenty-first century, seeking fresh insights and charting new directions in the field.

“The Unknown Nineteenth Century,” headed by Joe Peschio (University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee), uncovers new literary facts in the history of nineteenth-century Russian literature, even in the most familiar of places. Under the guidance of David Bethea (University of Wisconsin – Madison), “Liber Primus” provides a rigorous venue for authors who are publishing their first monograph. “Film and Media Studies,” edited by Elena Prokhorova and Alexander Prokhorov (both from College of William and Mary), presents a lively scholarly dialogue on a wide range of topics within film and media studies, focusing on the cinema and media culture of Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucuses, and Central Asia in regional and global contexts. Finally, “Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History,” led by Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University of London), features publications on non-Western literatures, cultural theory, and intellectual history, although mainstream European and North American developments are also part of its editorial program.

In 2015, ASP has added to its collection many important titles. Among these, Russian Silver Age: Texts and Contexts, edited by Sibelan E. S. Forrester and Martha M. F. Kelly, introduces the poetry, manifestoes, experimentation, and debates of the Russian Silver Age, meticulously selected by Forrester and Kelly, who sometimes provide their own translations when suitable ones could not be found. Avi Sagi and Yakir Englander’s Sexuality and The Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse explores the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace. Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought (Volume 2)—A Tradition of Inquiry, edited by Lewis Aron and Libby Henik, brings together an international collection of contemporary scholars and clinicians to address the interface and mutual influence of Jewish thought and modern psychoanalysis—two traditions of inquiry.

Founded in 2007, Academic Studies Press has established itself as a scholarly publisher in Jewish and Slavic studies, and is currently expanding its scope in the fields of Eastern European and Middle Eastern studies. Our monographs, multi-authored collections, anthologies, critical companions, and translations are frequently and highly recommended by CHOICE, and have received many awards. All titles are curated in collaboration with our series editors who are major scholars in their respective fields, and undergo peer review before official acceptance.

Academic Studies Press Catalog

2015 — Spring 2016

CONTENTS

Jewish Studies............................................................................................ 4 Slavic Studies............................................................................................12 Touro College Press.....................................................................................19 Featured 2014 Titles....................................................................................21 Award Winners...........................................................................................27 Ordering and Contact Information.................................................................30 Index.......................................................................................................32

JEWISH STUDIES

Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought (Volume II). A Tradition of Inquiry

Attuned Learning: Rabbinic Texts on Habits of the Heart in Learning Interactions Elie Holzer

Edited by Lewis Aron and Libby Henik Series: P sychoanalysis and Jewish Life

Series: J ewish Identity in Post‑Modern Society

February 2015 |$55.00 | 384 pp. | 9781618114471 | Hardback

March 2016 | $69.00 | approx. 300 pp. | 9781618114808 | Hardback

Inquiry and questioning are defining features of Jewish scholarship. They are also central to Freud’s psychoanalytic method. In Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought (Volume II): A Tradition of Inquiry, editors Aron and Henik have brought together an international assembly of scholars and clinicians to address the bi‑directional influence of Jewish thought and contemporary psychoanalysis, two traditions of inquiry. The themes presented are universal: trauma, traumatic reenactment, intergenerational transmission of trauma, love, loss, mourning, ritual—subjects of particular relevance to Jewish thought and history as well as to psychoanalysis, both theoretically and clinically.

Lewis Aron, PhD is the Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is internationally recognized as a leader, teacher, scholar, and innovative contributor in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Libby Henik, MSW trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Karen Horney Institute. She holds an MA in Hebrew Literature and studied biblical exegesis at Bar‑Ilan University. Her articles explore the bi‑directional influence of psychoanalysis and Jewish thought.

Also Available:

Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought, Volume I Edited by Lewis Aron and Libby Henik

Groundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts lead the reader through an exploration of “attuned learning”—an emerging paradigm of mindfulness that emphasizes alertness to one’s own mental, emotional, and physical workings as well as awareness of others within the complexities of learning interactions. The pedagogical is integrated with the ethical in transformative teaching and learning; repair of educational disruptions; the role of the human visage; and the dynamics of argumentative and collaborative learning. Textual analyses reveal how deliberate self‑cultivation not only infuses ethics and spirituality into the growth of teachers, learners, and co‑learners, but also offers a potential corrective for calculative modalities in contemporary educational thinking. The author speaks to the existential, humanizing art of education, enabling readers to examine, expand, or revisit their beliefs and practices.

Elie Holzer is a practice‑oriented philosopher of Jewish education who serves in Bar‑Ilan University’s School of Education. His research integrates text‑based Jewish studies, philosophical hermeneutics, pedagogy, and ethical‑spiritual traditions. His book (with Orit Kent), A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs (Academic Studies Press, 2013) won the 2014 National Jewish Book Award.

Also from this Author:

A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs Elie Holzer with Orit Kent November 2013 | $49.00 | 264 pp. | 9781618112903 | Hardback

May 2010 | $49.00 | 424 pp. | 9781934843376 | Hardback JEWISH STUDIES

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The First to be Destroyed: The Jewish Community of Kleczew and the Beginning of the Final Solution Anetta Głowacka‑Penczyńska, Tomasz Kawski, and Witold W. Mędykowski

History, Memory, and Jewish Identity

Edited by Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn, and Lorenzo DiTommaso

Edited by Tuvia Horev Series: Judaism and Jewish Life

Series: North American Jewish Studies

July 2015 | $75.00 | 648 pp.; 74 illus.; 32 tables; 7 maps | 9781618112842 | Hardback

December 2015 | $79.00 | approx. 390 pp. | 9781618114747 | Hardback

The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40–60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September 15, 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II. The communities of Kleczew and the vicinity were among the first Jewish collectives in Europe to be totally destroyed. The events presented in this book reveal that the organization of deportations and the methods of mass murder conducted in this district, by Kommando Lange, served as a model that would be applied later in the death camps during the mass extermination of Polish and European Jewry. If so, it was in the woods near Kleczew that the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” began.

Witold W. Mędykowski is an historian and political scientist.

He received his PhD degree in Political Science at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2010, and another PhD in Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2014. He is a Senior Specialist at the Yad Vashem Archives.

Tomasz Kawski is a researcher in the Institute of History and International Relationships (IHiSM) at UKW in Bydgoszcz.

Anetta Głowacka‑Penczyńska has been working at the University of Bydgoszcz since 1998 and defended her PhD dissertation in 2006. Since 2007, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural History at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz.

Tuvia Horev (PhD, MPH, DMD) has served in high‑ranking positions in the Israeli healthcare system, as well as in research institutes and academia. As a descendant of a family that lived in Kleczew for generations, Dr. Horev’s contribution to this book has been given out of a personal commitment to promote historical research on Jewish life in Eastern Greater Poland.

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This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the ways in which Jews responded to and made use of the past. If Jews’ choices of what to include, emphasize, omit, and invent in their representation of the past is a fundamental variable, then this volume contributes to the creation of a more nuanced approach to the construction of the histories of Jews and their thought.

Ira Robinson is Chair in Quebec and Canadian Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University. He is president of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies, and was the 2013 winner of the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award, Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.

Naftali S. Cohn is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University. His book, The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis, was recently published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lorenzo DiTommaso is Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Montréal. His next book, The Architecture of Apocalypticism, the first volume of a trilogy, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Also from this Editor:

Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit Edited by Ira Robinson July 2013 | $95.00 | 504 pp. | 9781934843864 | Hardback 5

Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?

A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917

Jewish Ludmir:

The History and Tragedy of the Jewish Community of Volodymyr‑Volynsky A Regional History

Victoria Khiterer

Volodymyr Muzychenko

Series: Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and their Legacy

Translated by Marta Daria Olynik

February 2016 | $89.00 | approx. pp; | 9781618114761 | Hardback 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.

Victoria Khiterer is an Assistant Professor of History and the Director of the Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at Millersville University, PA. She is the author and editor of four books and over eighty articles in Russian and Eastern European Jewish History.

Also of Interest:

Life In Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950 Shimon Redlich February 2011 | $45.00 | 282 pp. | 9781936235216 | Hardback

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With an introduction by Antony Polonsky Series: Jews of Poland

July 2015 | $69.00 | 378 pp.; 169 illus. | 9781618114129 | Hardback This volume is a brief history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr‑Volynsky, going back to its first historical mentions. It explores Jewish settlement in the city, the kahal, and the role of the community in the Va’ad Arba Aratsot, and profiles several important historical figures, including Shelomoh of Karlin and Khane‑Rokhl Werbermacher (the Maiden of Ludmir). It also considers the city’s synagogues and Jewish cemetery, and explores the twentieth‑century history of the community, especially during the Holocaust. Drawing on survivor eyewitness testimonies, the author pays tribute to the town’s Righteous among the Nations and describes efforts to preserve the memory of its Jewish community, including the creation of the Piatydni memorial, and lists prominent Jews born in Volodymyr‑Volynsky and natives of the city living abroad. This book will be of interest to historians of the Jewish communities and the Holocaust in Ukraine, as well as to the general reader.

Volodymyr Muzychenko was born in Sarny, Ukraine.

He graduated from the Rivne Music College and the Rivne State Institute of Culture. Since 1988 he has lived in Volodymyr‑Volynskiy. He teaches guitar at a children’s music school and is the head of the town’s small Jewish community.

Muzychenko has researched the history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr‑Volynsky extensively and takes care of the town’s Jewish graves and sites of execution.

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Judaism as Philosophy: Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of Provence

The Image of Jews in Contemporary China Edited by James Ross and Lihong Song

Howard Kreisel

Series: E munot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah September 2015 | $79.00 | approx. 500 pp. | 9781618111791 | Hardback The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Maimonides’ philosophy and that of his followers in Provence.

At the heart of these topics lies the issue of whether they adopted a completely naturalistic picture of the workings of the world order, or left room for the volitional activity of God in history. These topics include divine law, creation, the Account of the Chariot, prophet and sage, Mosaic prophecy, reasons for the commandments, and prayer. Special attention is paid to three lesser known but highly significant Provençal Jewish thinkers: Moses Ibn Tibbon, Levi ben Avraham, and Moses of Marseilles.

Howard (Haim) Kreisel teaches in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben‑Gurion University of the Negev. He holds the Miriam Martha Hubert Chair in Jewish Thought and is the Director of the Goldstein‑Goren International Center for Jewish Thought. He has written extensively in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy. Among the books he has authored are Maimonides’ Political Thought and Prophecy: The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy.

Also of Interest:

Series: Jewish Identity in Post-Modern Society March 2016 | $79.00 | 9781618114204 | Approx. 300 pp. | Hardback Bookstores in Chinese cities are stocked with dozens of Chinese-language books on how Jews conduct business, manage the world, and raise their children. At least ten universities throughout China offer popular Jewish Studies programs, some with advanced degrees. Yet there are virtually no Jews in China. The Chinese are constructing an identity for a people that the large majority of them will never meet.

This edited volume critically examines the image of Jews from the contemporary perspective of ordinary Chinese citizens.

It includes chapters on Chinese Jewish Studies programs, popular Chinese books and blogs about Jews, China’s relations with Israel, and innovative examinations of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng.

James Ross is an associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston, former Fulbright lecturer at Nanjing University, and author of Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora (Riverhead, 2000).

Lihong Song is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Nanjing University, and most recently the author of Rome and Jerusalem (2015).

Maimonides As Biblical Interpreter Sara Klein-Braslavy July 2011 | $69.00 | 306 pp. | 9781936235285 | Hardback

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Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments

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– H. Norman Strickman, Touro College, author of

Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments

Albert D. Friedberg F ebruary 2015 | $85.00 | 400 pp. | 9781618111678 | Hardback JEWISH STUDIES

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My Father’s Journey:

To Our Children:

A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania

Memoirs of Displacement. Jewish Journey of Hope and Survival in 20th-Century Poland and Beyond

Sara Reguer

Włodzimierz Szer Translated by Bronisława Karst Series: Studies in Orthodox Judaism

Series: Jews of Poland

March 2015 | $39.00 | 264 pp.; 43 illus. | 9781618114143 | Hardback

March 2016 | $49.00 | aprrox. 300 pp. | 9781618114785 | Hardback

Born into a leading Lithuanian‑Jewish rabbinic family, Moshe Aron Reguer initially followed the path of traditional yeshiva education. His adolescence coincided with World War I and its upheavals, pandemics, and pogroms, as well as with new ideas of Haskalah, Zionism, and socialism. He wrote his memoir at the age of 23, on the eve of his departure for Israel in 1926. However, his story did not end there, but continued in British Mandated Palestine and the United States. He kept in touch with the family in Brest‑Litovsk until the Nazis destroyed Jewish Lithuania, and some of their correspondence is included within this volume.

Sara Reguer has been chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College for over 25 years. She is co‑editor and co‑author of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times (2003), and most recently authored The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy (2013).

This book takes the reader through Dr. Włodzimierz Szer’s childhood in Yiddish prewar Warsaw, adolescence and imprisonment in wartime Russia, to the brutal reality of immediate postwar Poland, and the years of the socialist regime. Although largely autobiographical, the book provides a historically and intellectually compelling analysis of the social and political situation in Poland and Soviet Russia from the early 1930s to 1967.

Włodzimierz Szer was a Professor of Biochemistry at NYU, who authored 170 papers, educated generations of students, and raised a family. He spoke several languages fluently and flawlessly, including Polish, English, Yiddish, and Russian.

He loved chess, travel, good company, food, and a drink. He was politically astute, deeply well‑informed, and a wonderful storyteller.

Bronisława Karst grew up in Warsaw, Poland. She left Poland for the United States in 1969 after the government’s anti‑Semitic campaign. She obtained a Master’s degree in French and a PhD in Comparative Literature. Retired from teaching, she lives in Buffalo, NY.

Also from this Author:

The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy Sara Reguer June 2013 | $69.00 | 192 pp.; 8 illus.; 5 maps | 9781618112446 | Hardback

Also in this Series:

Biography and Memory: The Generational Experience of the Shoah Survivors Kaja Kazmierska May 2012 | $109.00 | 396 pp. | 9781936235780 | Hardback

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The Parting of the Ways: Judaism, Christianity, and the Psychoanalytic Theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung

Research in Jewish Demography and Identity Edited by Eli Lederhendler and Uzi Rebhun

Richard L. Kradin Series: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life

Series: Jewish Identities in Post‑Modern Society

December 2015 | $69.00 | approx.

290 pp. | 9781618114228 | Hardback

March 2015 | $89.00 | 426 pp.; 75 tables; 19 illus. | 9781618114396 | Hardback

The Enlightenment signaled diminished popular reliance on the religious “cure of the soul,” and witnessed the emergence of psychoanalysis. From its inception, Freud’s psychoanalysis was accused of being a “Jewish science,” and he countered by including non‑Jewish Swiss psychiatrists in the new movement. Carl Jung eventually broke with Freud over differences concerning psychoanalytical theory and practice.

The current text explores the religious underpinnings of psychoanalysis, contrasting the textual and mystical traditions of Judaism with those of Christianity. It demonstrates that differences in the fundamental tenets of Judaism and Christianity have had a profound and continued influence on psychoanalysis.

Richard L. Kradin, MD is a physician and psychoanalyst at Massachusetts General Hospital, a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute‑Boston, and professor at Harvard Medical School. His recent publications include Pathologies of the Mind/ Body Interface: Exploring the Curious Domain of the Psychosomatic Disorders (Routledge 2012), and he is the author of over 200 articles in medical, psychiatric, and psychoanalytical literature.

Also in this Series:

Survival and Trials of Revival: Psychodynamic Studies of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families in Israel and the Diaspora Hillel Klein J une 2012 | $85.00 | 276 pp. | 9781936235896 | Hardback JEWISH STUDIES

This book contains fifteen original papers covering a broad spectrum of topics in Jewish demography and identity, considering both Diaspora communities and the population of Israel. While most of the papers make use of quantitative data, some are based on qualitative and archive materials. The book is divided into five parts, reflecting different complementary dimensions investigated: historical demography, history, and politics, immigration and immigrant adaptation, transnationalism, and demography and identity. This work is dedicated to Professor Sergio DellaPergola upon his retirement from teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Eli Lederhendler is the Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches in the Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry Department. He is co‑editor of the annual series, Studies in Contemporary Jewry.

Uzi Rebhun is the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel‑Diaspora Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently he is the Head of the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University. He specializes in the demography of world Jewry, Jewish migration, Jewish identification, and the Jewish family.

Also from this Author:

The Wandering Jew in America Uzi Rebhun June 2011 | $60.00 | 156 pp.; 24 tables; 1 map | 9781936235261 | Hardback 9

Sexuality and the Body in New Religious‑Zionist Discourse Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi

Shoa and Experience: A Journey in Time Edited by Nitza Davidovitch and Dan Soen

Series: Israel: Society, Culture and History

Series: T he Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy

August 2015 | $89.00 | 300 pp. | 9781618114525 | Hardback

November 2015 | $59.00 | approx. 310 pp. | 9781618113108 | Hardback

The religious‑Zionist community in Israel developed as an attempt to combine commitment to Jewish law with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning coexisting in tension and not easily reconciled.

Through its analysis of the discourse on sexuality as it emerges in a new, online version of a traditional genre—responsa literature—Sexuality and the Body in the New Religious‑Zionist Discourse develops an innovative paradigm for reading religious cultures in modern societies, centering on the body as the realm of confrontation and considering such aspects as homosexuality, lesbianism, masturbation, and the relationships between the sexes.

Avi Sagi is professor of philosophy, founder of the interdisciplinary graduate program in hermeneutics and cultural studies at the Bar Ilan University, and faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute, in Jerusalem. He has written and edited numerous books and articles in Jewish and general philosophy.

Yakir Englander is a Visiting Scholar at The Divinity School at Harvard University. His book, The Perception of the Male Body in Lithuanian Ultra‑Orthodox Society During the Last Sixty Years, will be published by the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Also from this Author:

This book explores the nature of Holocaust education and its development for current and future generations—both in Israel and worldwide. Special attention is given to the impact of a multi‑media society on contemporary youth culture. This book will help Holocaust educators and curriculum developers to design Holocaust education and attune it to the current generation’s nature and needs. It is intended to prepare educators to lead programs and initiate encounters designed to teach youngsters about the Holocaust from multiple perspectives.

Nitza Davidovitch serves in teaching and administrative positions and is the Head of Quality Assessment and Academic Instruction at Ariel University; she is also the Head of the Israeli Forum of Faculty Development Centers.

Dan Soen, Ariel University, has been teaching since 1961 in higher education institutions in Israel, New Zealand, the United States, and South Africa. He has published over 125 articles in scientific journals, and has edited and written over 30 books on topics related to sociology, regional and urban issues, behavioral sciences, and more recently, Holocaust memory and education.

Also of Interest:

Identity and Pedagogy: Shoah Education in Israeli State Schools

Jewish Religion After Theology

Erik H. Cohen

Avi Sagi

July 2013 | $85.00 | 348 pp.; 27 tables; 10 illus. | 9781936235810 | Hardback

May 2009 | $59.00 | 264 pp. | 9781934843208 | Hardback

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Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination Edited by Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown

Series: Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and their Legacy August 2015 | $69.00 | 416 pp.; 25 illus. | 9781618114181 | Hardback Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination provides a collection of the most important writing that explores the stories and struggles of survivors in the Catskills, presenting new and existing works of fiction and memoir by writers who spent their youth as part of the Jewish resort culture. The anthology explores how vacationers, resort owners, and workers dealt with a horrific contradiction: the pleasure of their summer haven in contrast to the mass extermination of Jews throughout Europe. This book also examines the character of Holocaust survivors in the Catskills, exploring the ways they found connection, resolution to conflict, and avenues to come together despite their experiences that set them apart.

Holli Levitsky is Professor of English and founder and director of the Loyola Marymount University Jewish Studies Program.

The author of The Literature of Exile and Displacement: American Identity in a Time of Crisis, she held the 2001–2002 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Literature in Warsaw, Poland.

Phil Brown is a University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences and the director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University. He is the founder and president of the Catskills Institute, author of Catskill Culture: A Mountain Rat’s Memory of the Great Jewish Resort Area, and editor of In the Catskills.

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Vygotsky and Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition Antonella Castelnuovo and Bella S. Kotik‑Friedgut Preface by Clotilde Pontecorvo

Series: Judaism and Jewish Life February 2015 | $49.00 | 310 pp.; 4 illus. | 9781936235582 | Hardback Vygotsky and Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition examines the role that Jewish cultural tradition played in the work of the Russian psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky and of the British sociologist Basil Bernstein, highlighting aspects of their respective lives and theories to reveal significant influences of Jewish thoughts and beliefs. The authors demonstrate that theory and human life are dialectically interconnected: what research can reveal about a man can also provide a better understanding of the very nature of his theory. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists, sociologists, and students interested in the sociocultural formation of mind.

Bella S. Kotik‑Friedgut (PhD, Moscow State University) is a professor of psychology at D. Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem. She served as the editor of the translation from Russian to Hebrew of Vygotsky’s seminal work Language and Thought. Among her most recent publications includes “Cultural‑historical Theory and Cultural Neuropsychology Today” in The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural‑Historical Psychology (2014).

Antonella Castelnuovo (PhD, London University) teaches Intercultural Communication at Siena University, and presently is teaching Linguistic and Cultural Mediation at the University La Sapienza, Rome. Her recent publications include Giochi di ruolo e formazione interculturale (2007) and A Sociocultural Study of Intercultural Discourse: Empirical Research on Italian Adolescent Pupils (forthcoming).

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SLAVIC STUDIES

Before They Were Titans: Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Essays in Russian Social and Economic History Steven L. Hoch

Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen with an Afterword by Caryl Emerson Series: Ars Rossica April 2015 | $79.00 | 352 pp. | 9781618114303 | Hardback Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the Titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, plus an afterword by Caryl Emerson, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author—for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.

Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (PhD Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University), has taught at Bryn Mawr College as Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature since 1991. She is the author of Beyond Realism: Turgenev’s Poetics of Secular Salvation (Stanford UP, 1992) and A Fallen Idol is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition (Stanford UP, 2007).

Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History February 2015 | $79.00 | 330 pp.; 46 tables; 19 illus. | 9781618114280 | Hardback From banking crises and infectious diseases to peasant rituals and land reform, Steven L. Hoch examines the life of Russia’s rural population.

In contrast to longstanding interpretations of the Russian peasantry, Hoch emphasizes the role of social, epidemiological, and ecological forces in the formation of rural Russian society. Drawing from sources little used by previous scholars, he assesses the impact of the broad economy on shaping the government policies of emancipation and land reform, and the long-term consequences of these policies on peasant material well-being.

Steven L. Hoch studied at Princeton University, the Institut national d’études démographiques, Moscow State University, and Helsinki University. He is the author of Serfdom and Social Control in Russia (1986), which has been translated into Russian.

In addition, he translated and edited from the French Metodika analiza v istoricheskoi demographii (Russian State Humanities University Press, 1977). He is the author of several articles on Russian demographic, social, and economic history.

Contributors: Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (Bryn Mawr College), Lewis Bagby (University of Wyoming), Caryl Emerson (Princeton University), Susanne Fusso (Wesleyan University), Liza Knapp (Columbia University), Anne Lounsbery (New York University), Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis University), Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern University), Dale E. Peterson (Amherst College), William Mills Todd III (Harvard University), Ilya Vinitsky (University of Pennsylvania), Justin Weir (Harvard University)

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First Words:

From the Bible to Shakespeare:

On Dostoevsky’s Introductions

Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian

Lewis Bagby

Andrii Danylenko

Series: T he Unknown Nineteenth Century

Series: Ukrainian Studies

January 2016 | $79.00 | approx. 230 pp. | 9781618114822 | Hardback

February 2016 | $89.00 | approx. 300 pp. | 9781618114709 | Hardback

Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever attempts to call his readers’ attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky’s introductions. Using Genette’s typology of prefaces and Bakhtin’s notion of multiple voices, Lewis Bagby reveals just how important Dostoevsky’s first words are to his fiction.

Dostoevsky’s ruses, verbal winks, and backward glances indicate a lively and imaginative author at earnest play in the field of literary discourse.

This is the first English-language study of the translations of the Bible and Shakespeare into vernacular Ukrainian by Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97), a true Ukrainian maverick in the national revival of his country and a precursor of the modern understanding of Ukrainian literature. In this study, Kuliš’s translations are discussed in tandem with the time and people engaged in their assessment. As a result, the Ukrainian Bible and Shakespeare prove crucial to tracing the contours of a full and complete picture of the development of literary Ukrainian in the two historical parts of Ukraine—Galicia and Dnieper Ukraine— from the mid-nineteenth century onward.

Lewis Bagby, Professor Emeritus of Russian, The University of Wyoming, is the author of Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and Russian Byronism and editor of A Hero of Our Times: Critical Articles. He has published widely on Russian Romanticism, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Bakhtin.

Academic Studies Press is pleased to publish First Words: On Dostoevsky's Introductions as the first volume in it series “The Unknown Nineteenth Century.”

Andrii Danylenko is Professor at Pace University in New York.

He is the editor and author of several books on Slavic linguistics and philology as well as dozens of studies on a wide array of topics ranging from Indo-European to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to standard Ukrainian.

Academic Studies Press is pleased to publish From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian as the first volume in its “Ukrainian Studies” series.

This series focuses on the discovery of new literary facts in the history of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Each book brings to light unknown texts and authors, unknown historical materials, unknown literary-historical trends, unknown formal features, etc. 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. Rather than reinterpret the well-known, these books provide new material for new interpretations and narratives and force us to reexamine old ones.

This series publishes scholarly monographs and edited multi-authored volumes in Ukrainian studies with a strong emphasis in the humanities, including literature, film and media studies, gender studies, history, intellectual history, cultural studies, art history, the performing arts, folklore, and musicology. It welcomes both traditional approaches and methodologies, as well as new and innovative frameworks that experiment with scholarly forms to meet the demands and richness of 21st-century Ukrainian studies. This series also publishes translations of the best Ukrainian poetry and prose previously not available in English. Carving out new arenas in Ukrainian studies and developing and improving existing ones, this series publishes works that will be essential to scholars and students of Ukrainian studies for years to come.

Series Editor: Joe Peschio (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Series Editor: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas)

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From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds:

Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature:

The Memoirs of Irwin Weil

A Reader, Book 2

Irwin Weil Compiled and Edited by Tony Brown

Edited by Mark Lipovetsky and Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya Series: Cultural Syllabus

Series: J ews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy

November 2015 | $79.00 | approx.

614 pp. | 9781618114327 | Hardback November 2015 | $49.00 | approx.

614 pp. | 9781618114341 | Paperback

May 2015 | $49.00 | 244 pp.; 25 illus. | 9781618113948 | Hardback This book brings together a lifetime of experiences told by a beloved member of the field of Slavic languages and literature—Irwin Weil. During the Soviet era, Irwin frequently visited and corresponded with outstanding Russian cultural figures. His deep love of the Russian people and their culture has touched the lives of countless students, in particular at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1966. These stories of an unassuming Jewish American from Cincinnati, Ohio who rubbed shoulders with prominent thinkers, writers, and musicians in the Soviet Union are presented for the first time in this volume.

Irwin Weil was born in 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio into a family of German Jewish and Lithuanian Jewish descent. After receiving a PhD in Slavic Studies from Harvard University in 1960, Weil taught at Brandeis University and then moved to Northwestern University where he has taught since 1966.

Tony Brown is a Professor of Russian at Brigham Young University and holds MA and PhD degrees in Russian and Second Language Acquisition from Bryn Mawr College. He has written extensively in the areas of second language acquisition, language policy, and the cultural history of Russia.

Volume II of Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader features the literature of the Thaw and Stagnation periods (1954–1986). It includes translations of poetry and prose, as well as of scholarly texts. The goal of this volume is to present the range of ideas, creative experiments, and formal innovations that accompanied the social and political changes of the late Soviet era. Together with the introductory essays and biographical notes, the texts collected here will engage students and interested readers of late Soviet Russian literature.

Mark Lipovetsky is Professor of Russian Studies in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 100 articles, 8 books, and co-editor of 9 volumes on Russian literature and culture.

His works were nominated for the Russian Little Booker Prize (1997) and short-listed for the Andrey Bely Prize (2008). In 2014, he received the AATSEEL award for outstanding contribution to scholarship.

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya is Associate Professor of Slavic in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Courtesy Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. She has published numerous articles on literary exile and repatriation, postSoviet culture, and transnational writing, and is the author of Locating Exiled Writers in Contemporary Russian Literature: Exiles at Home.

Also Available

Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader, Book 1 Edited by Mark Lipovetsky and Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya June 2014 | $69.00 | 9781936235407 | 384 pp. | Hardback June 2014 | $49.00 | 9781618113832 | 384 pp. | Paperback SLAVIC STUDIES

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“Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism

Petersburg Winters and Disintegration of the Atom

Georgy Ivanov Translated by Jerome Katsell and Stanislav Shvabrin

Michael Kunichika

Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History October 2015 | $75.00 | approx. 336 pp.; 30 illus. | 9781618114419 | Hardback For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenance and of varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to “Our Native Antiquity” located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where they found objects and sites long denigrated as archaeological curiosities. The book follows the exemplary careers of two objects—the so-called “Stone Women” and the kurgan, or burial mound—and the attention paid to them

by Russian and Soviet archaeologists, writers, artists, and filmmakers. These artifacts served as resources for modernist art and letters and as arenas for a contest between vying conceptions of Russian art, culture, and history.

Michael Kunichika teaches in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. He received his BA from Reed College and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century April 2016 | $39.00 | approx. 200 pp. | 9781618114549 | Hardback This book presents translations of two celebrated works

by Georgy Ivanov. Petersburg Winters (1928) is a portrait of Petersburg swept up in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. The spirit of the city is conveyed through a series of vignettes of Ivanov’s contemporaries, including Blok, Akhmatova, Esenin, and Mandelstam. Disintegration of the Atom (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian émigré despair on the eve of WWII—a cri de coeur that challenges prevailing concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged wretchedness.

Jerome Katsell was born in Brooklyn and raised Liberty, NY and Palo Alto, CA. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, and is an independent scholar and translator.

Stanislav Shvabrin teaches Russian language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Also of Interest:

50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories Translated by Valentina Brougher, Mark Lipovetsky, and Frank Miller March 2011 | $69.00 | 792 pp. | 9781936235148 | Hardback March 2011 | $49.00 | 792 pp. | 9781936235223 | Paperback

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Russian Silver Age Poetry:

Terror and Pity:

Texts and Contexts

Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia

Edited and introduced by Sibelan E. S. Forrester and Martha M. F. Kelly

Kirill Ospovat

Series: Cultural Syllabus

Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History

June 2015 | $79.00 | 618 pp. | 9781618113528 | Hardback June 2015 | $49.00 | 618 pp. | 9781618113702 | Paperback

April 2016 | $79.00 | approx. 400 pp. | 9781618114723 | Hardback

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation—many of them translated especially for this volume—as well as critical and fictional texts (some by the poets themselves) that help establish the context and outline the lively discourse of the era and its indelible moral and artistic aftermath.

Sibelan E. S. Forrester teaches Russian language and literature and a regular translation workshop at Swarthmore College. She has published numerous articles on Russian poetry (especially Marina Tsvetaeva) and folklore. She also translates contemporary Russian poetry, most recently that of Maria Stepanova. She is co-editor of Engendering Slavic Literatures (Indiana UP, 1996, with Pamela Chester) and of Over the Wall/After the Fall (Indiana UP, 2004, with Magdalena Zaborowska and Elena Gapova).

Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia offers an in-depth reading of early Russian tragedy as a political genre. Imported to Russia by Aleksandr Sumarokov around 1750, tragedy reenacted and shaped the symbolic economy and the often disturbing historical experience of “absolutist” autocracy. Addressing half-forgotten texts and events, this study engages with literary and cultural theory from Walter Benjamin to Foucault and “new historicism” in order to contribute to a broader discussion of early modern “poetics of culture.”

Kirill Ospovat received his PhD from the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU, Moscow) in 2005. He has held various postdoctoral appointments in Russia, Germany, the UK, and the US, most recently in the ERC-funded research group “Early modern drama and the cultural net” at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Also of Interest:

Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II Vera Proskurina January 2011 | $55.00 | 312 pp. | 9781936235506 | Hardback

Martha M. F. Kelly is Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press (Fall 2015). In this book she explores unorthodox relationships between poetry and religion in the early twentieth century in Russia. She has published articles on Russian modernist poetry, on Chekhov, and on Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago.

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The Translator’s Doubts:

Witness and Transformation:

Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation

The Poetics of Gennady Aygi Sarah Valentine

Julia Trubikhina

Series: C ultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century August 2015 | $79.00 | 252 pp. | 9781618112606 | Hardback Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this book approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. It attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from an earlier emphasis on the “metaliterary” to the more recent “metaphysical” approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov’s deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov’s practice of translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a “true” but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remains paradoxically constant.

Julia Trubikhina received her PhD in Comparative Literature with a specialization in Slavic studies from New York University.

She teaches in the Department of Classics and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, where she is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Russian in the Division of Russian and Slavic Studies.

Also of Interest:

The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac Edited by Yuri Leving December 2010 | $39.00 | 348 pp.; 30 illus. | 9781936235193 | Hardback

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Series: Liber Primus September 2015 | $55.00 | approx. 216 pp. | 9781618114433 | Hardback This is the first full-length critical study of Chuvash-born poet Gennady Aygi (1934–2006), who is considered the father of late-Soviet avant-garde Russian poetry. The book charts the development of Aygi’s poetics, which draws equally on Russian poetic and religious tradition, European literature and philosophy, and Chuvash literature, folk culture, and cosmology. The chapters move chronologically through Aygi’s life and work from the 1950s to his final work in the early 2000s, concluding with an interview with American poet Fanny Howe about the importance of Aygi’s work in translation. The volume places Aygi in the context of twentieth-century poetry of witness and reveals the global significance of his work.

Sarah Valentine received her PhD in Russian Literature from Princeton University in 2007. Her translations from the Russian, Into the Snow: Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi, were published

by Wave Books in 2011. She teaches English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University.

Academic Studies Press is pleased to publish Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi as the first book in the series “Liber Primus.”

This series is designed for authors early in their careers, in many cases assistant professors coming up for tenure. A primary goal of the series is to create an outlet for outstanding academic books in our field at a time when university presses, forced to focus on “bottom lines” and trim their lists accordingly, are increasingly unlikely, regardless of the project, to take on proposals from untested, younger, less published scholars in our field. The series does not promote any specific scholarly-critical methodology, nor does it limit itself to any period, genre, or author grouping in Russian/Slavic literature/culture. Primary criteria will be quality of the research, conceptual robustness, clarity of thought, and elegance of style.

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Word and Image in Russian History:

Academic Studies Press is pleased to be accepting book proposals for a number of exciting new series, including:

Essays in Honor of Gary Marker Edited by Maria di Salvo, Daniel H. Kaiser, and Valerie A. Kivelson July 2015 | $79.00 | 416 pp.; 34 illus. | 9781618114587 | Hardback Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship on Russia—literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse in Imperial Russia. A biography of Marker, a survey of his scholarship, and a list of his publications complete the volume.

Maria Di Salvo is Professor of Slavic Philology at Milan State University.

Daniel H. Kaiser is Professor of History Emeritus at Grinnell College.

Valerie Kivelson is Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Contributors: Valerie Kivelson (University of Michigan), Giovanna Brogi (University of Milan), Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa), Elena Smilianskaia (Moscow), Daniela Steila (University of Turin), Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University), Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College), Maria di Salvo (University of Milan), Cynthia Whittaker (City University of New York), Simon Dixon (University of London), Evgenii Anisimov (St. Petersburg), Alexander Kamenskii (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Janet Hartley (London School of Economics), Olga Kosheleva (Moscow State University), Maksim Yaremenko (Kyiv), Patrick O’Meara (University of Durham), Roger Bartlett (London), Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa), Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College)

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Film and Media Studies Series Editors: Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova (College of William and Mary)

Liber Primus Series Editor: David Bethea (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Lithuanian Studies Series Editor: Darius Staliunas (Lithuanian Institute of History)

Polish Studies Series Editor: Halina Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Ukrainian Studies Series Editor: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas)

The Unknown Nineteenth Century Series Editor: Joe Peschio (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)

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TOURO COLLEGE PRESS

Contention, Controversy, and Change:

Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience, Volumes I and II

Intellectual Journeys of Recent, Mostly “Defunct” Economists Lall Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg

Edited by Eric Levine and Simcha Fishbane Vol I: December 2015 | $89.00 | approx. 360 pp. | 9781618114624 | Hardback Vol II: December 2015 | $89.00 | approx. 300 pp. | 9781618114648 | Hardback Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish historical experience. This collection presents the work of a distinguished group of scholars exploring the themes of social, political, religious, intellectual, and institutional movements and change in Jewish history. These scholars demonstrate that social change throughout Jewish life has assumed many different manifestations, and can occur in revolutionary and dramatic ways as well as in more common gradual and evolutionary processes. In the first volume, the essays revolve around two themes: “Mobilizations and Contentious Politics,” and “Social Trends, Communal and Institutional Change.”

The second volume is devoted to “Developments in Philosophy, Ideology, and Religious Practice.” Taken together, these two volumes present scholarship rich with both historical and contemporary relevance, of interest to academics and students in Jewish studies and the social sciences, communal leaders and policy makers, and anyone intrigued by the Jewish experience.

Eric Levine (DSW, Yeshiva University, 1994) is Director of Social Work Alumni Engagement and a faculty member at the Touro College Graduate School of Social Work. He has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, has authored some 60 publications, and is co-editor of the Social Work Forum. His current research focuses on social policy, contentious politics, and social change.

Simcha Fishbane (PhD, Social Anthropology of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 1988) is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Touro College.

He has published extensively on Jewish subjects and texts. His publications include The Method and Meaning of the Mishnah Berurah (1991) and The Shtiebelization of Modern Jewry (2011).

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November 2015 | $79.00 | approx. 350 pp. | 9781618114662 | Hardback This book looks into the creative minds of some recent, mostly “defunct” economists. Many of the authors, such as Samuelson, Friedman, Galbraith, and Heilbroner, have penned popular works, while their scientific contributions were limited to the most specialized scholars. Others, such as Nobel Prize winners Modigliani, Debreu, Becker, Aumann, and Allais, delved into complex issues in human organization, economic growth and planning, socio-economic theory, and model building.

Economists such as Keynes and Lowe represent world-class paragons whose influences continue to percolate in current research programs. Here we unearth their best scientific work, revealing gems that might otherwise be overlooked.

Michael Szenberg is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Business and Economics at Touro College. A recipient of many national and international teaching, service, and research awards, he was editor-in-chief of The American Economist from 1973 to 2011.

Lall Ramrattan is an economist at UC Berkeley, Extension. He holds a PhD from the New School for Social Research. Lall and Michael have collaborated for over 15 years, publishing more than 20 books and dozens of articles and research projects.

Also of Interest:

At the Intersection of Education, Marketing, and Transformation Sabra Brock October 2013 | $45.00 | 162 pp.; 27 tables; 2 illus. | 9781618113122 | Hardback

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Paleontology and Geology of the Martinsburg, Shawangunk, Onondaga, and Hornerstown Formations (Northeastern United States) with Some Field Guides Howard R. Feldman

September 2015 | $79.00 | 500 pp.; 104 tables; 108 illus. | 9781618114167 | Hardback This book, for the first time in one volume, describes the paleontology and geology of four very well-known rock formations in the northeastern United States. It includes discussions on the Middle Silurian Shawangunk Conglomerate that extends from New York as far south as Virginia, and the underlying Late Ordovician Martinsburg Shale that was deposited during the Taconic orogeny. The brachiopod fauna of the Onondaga Limestone is revised. Finally, the paleoecology of the Oleneothyris biostrome from the Hornerstown Formation in New Jersey is discussed.

Field guides to the Shawangunk and Onondaga formations are included, providing a valuable resource for professionals and students.

Howard B. Feldman is a professor in the Biology Department at Touro College in New York City and a Research Associate in the Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates) at the American Museum of Natural History. He has received numerous grants for his work on Paleozoic and Mesozoic brachiopods and has over 150 publications.

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Books 3–5 of Psalms: Chapters 73–150 Translated by Norman Strickman February 2016 | $89.00 | approx. 500 pp. | 9781618114686 | Hardback Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s commentary is one of the great biblical exegeses produced by medieval Jewry. His commentary accompanies almost every version of the Rabbinic Bible, and his influence on biblical studies continues to this very day. Ibn Ezra sought to provide the literal meaning of the biblical text.

However, he did more than that. His commentary is saturated with insights into Hebrew grammar, medieval philosophy, and astrology. Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Books 3–5 of Psalms: Chapters 73–150 completes the publication of the translation and annotation of Ibn Ezra’s commentary to Psalms, making it available to both scholars and general readers.

H. Norman Strickman is Rabbi emeritus of the Marine Park Jewish Center in Brooklyn and Professor emeritus of Jewish Studies at Touro College in New York City. He is the recipient of the Histadrut Ha-Ivrit prize in Hebrew Literature.

Also from this Author:

Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the First Book of Psalms: Chapters 1–41 Translated by Norman Strickman June 2009 | $48.00 | 326 pp. | 9781934843307 | Hardback

Also from this Author:

Invertebrate Paleontology (Mesozoic) of Israel and Adjacent Countries with Emphasis on the Brachiopoda Howard R. Feldman December 2013 | $65.00 | 336 pp.; 58 tables; 103 illus. | 9781618113054 | Hardback

TOURO COLLEGE PRESS

Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the Second Book of Psalms: Chapters 42–72 Translated by Norman Strickman J une 2009 | $48.00 | 214 pp. | 9781934843314 | Hardback

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FEATURED 2014 TITLES

Belomor:

Carnival in Tel Aviv:

Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag

Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism

Julie S. Draskoczy

Hizky Shoham

Series: M yths and Taboos in Russian Culture

Series: I srael: Society, Culture, and History

January 2014 | $69.00 | 252 pp.; 40 illus. | 9781618112880 | Hardback

March 2014 | $59.00 | 252 pp. | 9781618113511 | Hardback

Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship.

While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism—an ethos so hegemonic it wanted to harness the very mechanisms of inspiration—the volume also recognizes the various loopholes offered by artistic expression.

Perhaps the most infamous project of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan, the Belomor construction was riddled by paradox, above all the fact that it created a major waterway that was too shallow for large crafts. Even more significant, and sinister, is that the project won the backing of famous creative luminaries who enthusiastically professed the doctrine of self-fashioning.

Belomor complicates our understanding of the Gulag by looking at both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, thereby offering an expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism.

The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores the ethnographic dimension of Zionism. This study sheds new light on the ideological world of urban Zionism, the capitalistic aspects of Zionist culture, and the urban nature of the Zionist project, which sought to create a nation of warriors and farmers, but in fact nationalized the urban space and constructed it as its main public sphere.

Hizky Shoham is a cultural historian of Israel and Zionism. He is a research fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and a senior lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Julie S. Draskoczy has taught Russian history and culture at the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, and Patten University in San Quentin prison. She was named an Andrew W. Mellon Scholar of the Humanities at Stanford University, and has studied in Russia as a Fulbright-Hays recipient. She is the author of many articles and reviews, and has edited numerous projects including The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe and Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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The Israeli Nation-State:

Literature, Exile, Alterity:

Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges

The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets

Edited by Fania Oz-Salzberger and Yedidia Z. Stern

Maria G. Rewakowicz

Series: I srael: Society, Culture, and History June 2014 | $64.00 | 386 pp. | 9781618113894 | Hardback December 2014 | $34.00 | 386 pp. | 9781618113924 | Paperback This volume of original essays by some of Israel’s most remarkable public and academic voices offers a series of stateof-the art, accessible analyses of Israel’s ever-evolving theater of statecraft, public debates, and legal and cultural dramas, its deep divisions and—more surprisingly, perhaps—its internal affinities and common denominators.

Contributors: Fania Oz-Salzberger, Yedidia Z. Stern, Ayman K. Agbaria, Aviad Bakshi, Ariel L. Bendor, Ruth Gavison, Michael M. Karayanni, David Passig, Avi Sagi, Gideon Sapir, Anita Shapira, Daniel Statman, Gadi Taub, Shira Wolosky, Alexander Yakobson, Yaffa Zilbershats.

Fania Oz-Salzberger (DPhil Oxford University) is professor of history at the University of Haifa Center for German and European Studies and Faculty of Law, where she directs the Posen Research Forum for Political Thought. Among her books are Translating the Enlightenment (1995), Israelis in Berlin (2001), and Jews and Words, co-authored with Amos Oz (2012).

Series: S tudies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History August 2014 | $59.00 | 276 pp. | 9781618114037 | Hardback Originating in the mid-1950s, the New York Group of Ukrainian poets greatly contributed to the modernization of Ukrainian postwar literature. This pioneering study touches on many different aspects of the group’s artistic achievements—discursive, aesthetic, thematic, and historical—and discusses various ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections with their country of origin and their adopted homelands, underscoring their role in the shaping of the cultural image of Ukraine abroad. This book will appeal to those eager to explore East European poetry and to those interested in larger contexts for the development of European modernisms.

Maria G. Rewakowicz, PhD is affiliated with the Slavic Department at the University of Washington where she has taught Ukrainian literature. She is the author of a book of essays Persona Non Grata, and co-editor of Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe (2009).

Yedidia Z. Stern (SJD Harvard University) is the Vice President of Research at Israel Democracy Institute, where he heads the projects on “Religion and State” and “Human Rights and Judaism.” He is a full professor at Bar-Ilan University Law School, and is also the the author and editor of twenty books in his areas of professional interest.

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The Middle Way:

Poetry and Psychiatry:

The Emergence of Modern-Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism—Responses to Modernity in the Philosophy of Z. H. Chajes, S. R. Hirsch, and S. D. Luzzatto, Volumes I and II

Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Culture

Ephraim Chamiel Edited by Asael Abelman Translated by Jeffrey Green Series: Studies in Orthodox Judaism Vol I: December 2014 | $89.00 | 534 pp. | 9781618114075 | Hardback Vol II: December 2014 | $89.00 | 420 pp. | 9781618114082 | Hardback This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture, and the first modern thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with science, revelation with reason, Jewish ethics with European culture, and universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews. These religious thinkers of the nineteenth century struggled with challenges of the modern age that continue to confront modern Jews to this day. This objective work of scholarship will be of interest to the modern thinker and to scholars of the history of religions. It is relevant to the comparative study of Judaism with the various denominations of Christianity and other faiths, which seeks to find a middle way between their traditions and modernity.

Ephraim Chamiel earned his BA in economics and political science, and a diploma in business administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked in various executive positions for Bank Leumi, and later returned to the university to study Jewish thought. He defended his dissertation in 2006 under the guidance of Professor S. Rosenberg and Dr. M. Silber.

Presently, he conducts research and teaches in the field of modern Jewish thought. His second book, Ladaat Torah—a modern reading of the Pentateuch—was published in 2013 in Israel (Hebrew).

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Magnus Ljunggren Translated by Charles Rougle Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History November 2014 | $45.00 | 156 pp.; 44 illus. | 9781618113504 | Hardback November 2014 | $27.00 | 156 pp.; 44 illus. | 9781618113696 | Paperback A century ago the Symbolists in Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these poets, philosophers, and mystics sensed that tsardom was on the threshold of an apocalyptic upheaval. They were influenced

by Vladimir Solovyov and Friedrich Nietzsche, but under the impact of the 1905 Revolution they later also subscribed to current radical political ideas. The eventual collision between these dreams and tsarist reality generated enormous intellectual turbulence and the need for substitutes. Not least psychoanalysis came to the rescue of these stranded dreamers.

The present collection of essays is intended for readers interested in Russian literature or the early history of Eastern European offshoots of psychoanalysis.

Magnus Ljunggren defended his doctoral thesis The Dream of Rebirth. A Study of Andrej Belyj’s novel ‘Peterburg’ at Stockholm University in 1982. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Gothenburg. His most important monograph is The Russian Mephisto (1994).

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On Personal and Public Concerns: Essays in Jewish Philosophy Eliezer Schweid Translated and Edited by Leonard Levin Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History November 2014 | $59.00 | 240 pp.

9781618114457 | Hardback Eliezer Schweid’s career as philosopher, scholar, educator, and public intellectual has spanned the history of the State of Israel from the prewar Yishuv period to the present. In these essays, he recalls his formative years in the Zionist youth and the Hebrew University. He reflects on the existential loneliness of the modern Jew. He examines the perennial problem of theodicy through a Jewish lens in its broadest human parameters. Finally, he offers a challenging critique of the postmodern culture of the “global village,” in which the marketplace and skepticism have crowded out humane values rooted in the traditions of historical culture.

Also from this Author:

The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture Eliezer Schweid; Translated by Leonard Levin July 2008 | $60.00 | 316 pp. | 9781934843055 | Hardback

The Philosophy of the Bible

as Foundation of Jewish Culture: Philosophy of Biblical Narrative Eliezer Schweid; Translated by Leonard Levin January 2009 | $50.00 | 228 pp. | 9781934843000 | Hardback

The Philosophy of the Bible

as Foundation of the Jewish Culture: Philosophy of Biblical Law Eliezer Schweid; Translated by Leonard Levin January 2009 | $50.00 | 232 pp. | 9781934843017 | Hardback

Eliezer Schweid is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University. He has published forty books in general and specific areas of Jewish thought of all periods, and has commented frequently on the relevance of the legacy of Jewish thought to contemporary issues of Jewish and universal human concern. He is the recipient of the distinguished Israel Prize and two honorary doctorates.

Leonard Levin teaches Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York.

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Palestine in Turmoil:

Soviet Jews in World War II:

The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933–1939, Volumes I and II

Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering

Monty Noam Penkower

Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Harriet Murav

Series: Touro College Press Vol I: April 2014 | $59.00 | 348 pp. | 9781618113153 | Hardback April 2014 | $39.00 | 348 pp. | 9781618113672 | Paperback Vol II: April 2014 | $59.00 | 408 pp. | 9781618113177 | Hardback April 2014 | $39.00 | 408 pp. | 9781618113689 | Paperback This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly in the pivotal years 1933–1939, and which proved to be an irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused to accept minority status. A compelling narrative, lucidly written and rooted in extensive archival sources, explores the deadly clash of two rival nationalisms against the broader backdrop of rising antisemitism across Europe, the intervention of Arab states, and international realpolitik. The two volumes, one devoted to the years 1933–1936 and the second to the years 1937–1939, serve as a riveting prequel to Penkower’s Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939–1945.

Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. His numerous publications include The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust; The Holocaust and Israel Reborn; Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939–1945; Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land; and The Swastika’s Darkening Shadow: Voices from Before the Holocaust.

Also from this Author:

Twentieth-Century Jews:

Series: Borderlines: Russian and East-European Jewish Studies April 2014 | $69.00 | 270 pp. | 9781618113139 | Hardback This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945 was known in the Soviet Union. The essays included here examine both newly-discovered and previously-neglected oral testimony, poetry, cinema, diaries, memoirs, newspapers, and archives. This is one of the first books to combine the study of Russian and Yiddish materials, reflecting the nature of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which, for the first time during the Soviet period, included both Yiddish-language and Russian-language writers. This volume will be of use to scholars, teachers, students, and researchers working in Russian and Jewish history.

Gennady Estraikh is associate professor of Yiddish studies in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Yiddish in the Cold War (2008), In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism (2004), and Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development (1999).

Harriet Murav is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hey studies of Dostoevsky, Russian law and literature, and twentieth-century Russian and Yiddish literature are complemented by her most recent monograph, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia (2011).

Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land Monty Noam Penkower September 2010 | $65.00 | 420 pp. | 9781936235209 | Hardback FEATURED 2014 TITLES

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The Witching Hour and Other Plays

Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration:

Edited by Nadya L. Peterson

Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy

Nina Sadur

With an introduction by Mark Lipovetsky and an afterword by Karin Sarsenov

Richard Wortman

August 2014 | $39.00 | 204 pp. | 9781618113986 | Hardback August 2014 | $27.00 | 204 pp. | 9781618113993 | Paperback Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/ Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has, with few exceptions, been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment.

The plays included in this volume offer some of Sadur’s most influential theatrical works to the Englishspeaking audience for the first time. Sadur’s plays are inspired by symbolist drama, the theater of the absurd, and Russian folklore, yet are also infused with contemporary reality and populated by contemporary characters. Her work is overtly gynocentric: the fictional world construes women’s traditionally downplayed concerns as narratively and existentially central and crucial. Sadur’s drama has exerted a tremendous influence on contemporary Russian literature. Working essentially in isolation, Sadur was able to combine early twentieth-century dramatic discourse with that of the late Soviet era, setting the stage for the rise of the new Russian drama of the 2000s. The collection will appeal to readers interested in Russian literature and culture, Russian theater, as well as women’s literature.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Nadya L. Peterson was educated in Moscow, Russia, and received her PhD in Russian literature from Indiana University. She is currently an associate professor of Russian at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and the head of the Russian and Slavic Studies Program at Hunter. She is the author of Subversive Imaginations: Fantastic Prose and the End of Soviet Literature, 1970s–1990s, as well as a published translator and editor, most recently of Russian Love Stories (Peter Lang, 2009).

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Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History March 2014 | $84.00 | 468 pp. | 9781618113474 | Hardback The articles in this volume describe the author’s encounter with texts that conveyed goals and ideals that Russian monarchs sought to elevate before the elite of the empire and later to the public at large.

The texts include descriptions and depictions of ceremonies such as coronations, triumphal entries, and historical celebrations, art meant to demonstrate the monarchs’ national roots, operatic evocations of the past, examples of a distinctive Russian church architecture, and lubki. Analyses of explorers’ accounts and social thought round out a book that highlights the use of texts as windows into the political culture of imperial Russia.

Richard Wortman is James Bryce Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University. His prize-winning two-volume study, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, Princeton University Press, (1995-2000), is devoted to the role of imagery and representation in the exercise of monarchical power in Russia.

Also from this Author:

Russian Monarchy:

Representation and Rule Richard Wortman September 2013 | $69.00 | 360 pp. | 9781618112583 | Hardback

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AWARD WINNERS

“I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms Selected, translated and edited by Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto

Bieganski: The Brute Polack Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture Danusha Goska Series: Jews of Poland

Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

July 2010 | $65.00 | 344 pp. | 9781936235155 | Hardback

February 2013 | $69.00 | 588 pp. | 9781936235964 | Hardback September 2013 | $35.00 | 588 pp. | 9781618113726 | Paperback

Winner of the 2010 Halecki Award for Outstanding Book on the Polish Experience in America

Winner of the AATSEEL 2014 Book Awards Best Literary Translation into English A founder of Russia’s “lost literature of the absurd,” Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) kept diaries and notebooks throughout most of his adult life. Published only recently in Russian, they illuminate the life and creative process of one of the most distinctive and enigmatic figures of the literary and cultural avant-garde of post-Revolutionary Leningrad. The documents translated for this edition (most for the first time), are an invaluable source for English-language readers who wish to delve more deeply into the life, loves, and mind of a brilliant, quirky, and profoundly unconventional writer working during the first crucial decades of Soviet power.

Anthony Anemone (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is associate professor of Russian language and literature at The New School. He is the author of numerous articles on modern Russian literature and cinema, and the editor of Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia (Northwestern UP, 2010).

In this study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the “Bieganski” stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not.

Their special hatefulness is epitomized by Polish anti-Semitism.

Bieganski discovers this stereotype in the mainstream press, in scholarship and film, in Jews’ self-definition, and in responses to the Holocaust. Bieganski’s twin is Shylock, the stereotype of the crafty, physically inadequate, moneyed Jew. The final chapters of the book are devoted to interviews with American Jews, which reveal that Bieganski—and Shylock—are both alive and well among those who have little knowledge of Poles or Poland.

Danusha Goska (PhD Indiana University, Bloomington) is an experienced teacher and award-winning writer of numerous articles, essays, and fiction in Polish Studies.

Peter Scotto (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is professor of Russian language and literature at Mount Holyoke College.

He has published many articles on Russian poetry and prose, and his translation of Aleksandr Blok’s “The Twelve” appeared in the St. Petersburg Review in 2012.

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Development, Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools

Hating the Jews: The Rise of Antisemitism in the 21st Century Gregg Rickman

Jeffrey Kress Series: Judaism and Jewish Life

Series: Antisemitism in America

May 2012 | $69.00 | 216 pp. | 9781936235308 | Hardback October 2013 | $33.00 | 216 pp. | 9781618112941 | Paperback

November 2012 | $49.00 | 186 pp. | 9781936235254 | Hardback

Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-affective elements of education. Throughout the book, Kress grapples with questions such as: How can the balance between community cohesion and group differences be achieved in diverse settings? What are the educational implications of an approach to identity development rooted in contemporary developmental theories that posit the interaction among cognition, affect, and behavior? How can the formal and informal offerings of a school coalesce to address these broadly conceived identity outcomes, and what are the challenges in doing so? Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Education, Development Learning and Community offers a comprehensive and critical assessment of Jewish education today.

Winner of the Best Book of 2012 by the British Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism With attacks by Muslims against Jews in Western Europe reaching all-time highs, Jews are now facing levels of genocidal antisemitism not seen since WWII. Muslims committing attacks on Jews seek to substitute their own claims of victimhood for the Jews’ plight, defining themselves as the “new Jews.” Their demands for recognition are accompanied by acts of public disobedience, violent street protests, and petty crime. The Arab-Israeli struggle has been brought to Europe and extended to cover a hatred of Europe’s Jews as well as those resident in Israel. Gregg Rickman, the United States’ first Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, provides this first-person account and in-depth examination of the rise of antisemitism in the twenty-first century.

Gregg Rickman (PhD University of Miami) was the first US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, serving from 2006–2009. He has traveled to twenty-eight nations on behalf of the victims of antisemitism and is the author of two books on Holocaust-era restitution.

Jeffrey Kress is Associate Professor of Jewish Education and academic director of the Experiential Learning Initiative at the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His interests include developmental issues in Jewish education, research methods, and social, emotional, and spiritual elements of Jewish educational contexts.

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My Four Years in Soviet Russia

A Philosophy of Havruta:

Yitzhak Erlichson

Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs

Translated by Maurice Wolfthal

Elie Holzer with Orit Kent

Series: Jews of Poland June 2013 | $59.00 | 198 pp. | 9781618112545 | Hardback Winner of the 2010–2013 Modern Language Association’s Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies This is the story of Yitzkhak Erlichson, a Polish Jew who was nineteen years old when he escaped the Nazis by fleeing to the USSR from his hometown, Wierzbnik. Arrested as an English spy, he was sent to prisons and slave-labor. He worked and traveled in the USSR after this release. To his dismay, he found injustice, inequality, and antisemitism equal to that of his native Poland.

Attempting to join the Polish army forming in the USSR, he was told it was “only for Poles.” He met and married his wife, Fania, in the Soviet Union. They made their way back to Wierzbnik. There he learned that none of his family had survived the German occupation.

Upon his return from the USSR, Erlichson began a new life in Poland and worked in the leather industry, having had some training in that trade before the war. But antisemitism and communist repression impelled him to leave after a few years, and he made his way to Paris in 1947. He published this book there (under the pen-name Yitzkhak Edison), as well as Poyln nokh der bafrayung (Poland After Liberation) in 1956. He also wrote for Yiddish newspapers in Paris, London, and New York.

He left Paris in 1957, settled in Brooklyn, and wrote for the Forverts.

Maurice Wolfthal, a retired teacher, grew up in a Yiddishspeaking home. Like Yitzhak Erlichson, his parents escaped the Nazis by fleeing to the USSR, and like Erlichson, they made their way to Paris after the war, and later from there to New York.

Mr. Wolfthal is an independent scholar who has translated, from the Yiddish, Nokhem Shtif’s Pogromen in ukrayne, Shmerke Kaczerginski’s Khurbn vilne, and Bernard Weinstein’s Di yidishe unions in amerike.

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Series: J ewish Identity in PostModern Society November 2013 | $49.00 | 264 pp. | 9781618112903 | Hardback March 2014 | $29.00 | 264 pp. | 9781618113856 | Paperback Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity No longer confined to traditional institutions devoted to Talmudic studies, havruta work—or the practice of students studying materials in pairs—has become a relatively widespread phenomenon across denominational and educational settings of Jewish learning. However, until now there has been little discussion of what havruta text study entails and how it might be conceptualized and taught. This book breaks new ground from two perspectives: by offering a model of havruta text study situated in broader theories of interpretation and learning, and by treating havruta text study as composed of textual, interpersonal and intra-personal practices that can be taught and learned. A Philosophy of Havruta lays out the conceptual foundations of this approach and provides examples of their pedagogical implementation for the teaching of havruta text study. Included are illustrative lesson plans, teachers’ notes and students’ reflections, exercises for students, and other instructional materials for teaching core concepts and practices.

Elie Holzer is a practice-oriented philosopher of Jewish education. He serves as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and has taught in various academic and vocational institutions in both Israel and the United States.

Orit Kent is a teacher, educator, and scholar of teaching and learning in Jewish education. She co-designed the Beit Midrash for Teachers at Brandeis University, where she taught for over a decade. She is an affiliated scholar at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education.

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INDEX Author Index A

Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh 12 Anemone, Anthony 27 Aron, Lewis 4

B

Bagby, Lewis 13 Brock, Sabra 19 Brougher, Valentina 15

C

Castelnuovo, Antonella 11 Chamiel, Ephraim 23 Cohen, Erik H. 10

F

Feldman, Howard B. 20 Forrester, Sibelan E. S. 16 Friedberg, Albert D. 7

G

Goska, Danusha 27

H

Hoch, Steven L. 12 Holzer, Elie 4 Horev, Tuvia 5

I

Ivanov, Georgy 15

D

Danylenko, Andrii 13 Davidovitch, Nitza 10 Draskoczy, Julie S. 21

E

Englander, Yakir 10 Erlichson, Yitzhak 29 Estraikh, Gennady 25

INDEX

K

Kazmierska, Kaja 8 Khiterer, Victoria 6 Klein, Hillel 9 Klein-Braslavy, Sara 7 Koenigsberg, Zvi 7 Kradin, Richard L. 9 Kreisel, Howard 7

Kress, ffrey 28 Kunichika, Michael 15

L

Lederhendler, Eli 9 Levin, Leonard 24 Levine, Eric 19 Leving, Yuri 17 Levitsky, Holli 11 Lipovetsky, Mark 14 Ljunggren, Magnus 23

M

Muzychenko, Volodymir 6

O

Rebhun, Uzi 9 Redlich, Shimon 6 Reguer, Sara 8 Rewakowicz, Maria G. 22 Rickman, Gregg 28 Robinson, Ira 5

S

Sadur, Nina 26 Sagi, Avi 10 Salvo, Maria di 18 Schweid, Eliezer 24 Shoham, Hizky 21 Strickman, Norman 20 Szer, WĹ‚odzimierz 8

Ospovat, Kirill 16 Oz-Salzberger, Fania 22

T

P

V

Penkower, Monty Noam 25 Proskurina, Vera 16

R

Ramrattan, Lall 19

Trubikhina, Julia 17 Valentine, Sarah 17

W

Weil, Irwin 14 Wortman, Richard 26

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Title Index A

A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs 4 Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought (Volume II): A Tradition of Inquiry 4 Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought 4 At the Intersection of Education, Marketing, and Transformation 19 Attuned Learning: Rabbinic Texts on Habits of the Heart in Learning Interactions 4

B

Before They Were Titans: Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy 12 Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag 21 Bieganski: The Brute Polack Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture 27 Biography and Memory: The Generational Experience of the Shoah Survivors 8

C

Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit 5 Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism 21 Contention, Controversy, and Change: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience, Volumes I and II 19 Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments 7 Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II 16

D

Development, Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools 28

E

Essays in Russian Social and Economic History 12

F

First Words: On Dostoevsky’s Introductions 13

INDEX

From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian 13 From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds: The Memoirs of Irwin Weil 14

H

Hating the Jews: The Rise of Antisemitism in the 21st Century 28 History, Memory, and Jewish Identity 5

I

“I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms 27 Identity and Pedagogy: Shoah Education in Israeli State Schools 10 Intellectual Journeys of Recent, Mostly “Defunct” Economists 19 Invertebrate Paleontology (Mesozoic) of Israel and Adjacent Countries with Emphasis on the Brachiopoda 20

J

Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?

A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 6 Jewish Ludmir: The History and Tragedy of the Jewish Community of Volodymyr‑ Volynsky A Regional History 6 Jewish Religion After Theology 10 Judaism as Philosophy: Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of Provence 7

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Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader Volume II 14 Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader, Vol. I 14 Life In Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 19451950 6 Literature, Exile, Alterity: The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets 22

M

Maimonides As Biblical Interpreter 7 My Father’s Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania 8 My Four Years in Soviet Russia 29

O

On Personal and Public Concerns: Essays in Jewish Philosophy 24 “Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism 15

P Paleontology and Geology of the Martinsburg, Shawangunk, Onondaga, and Hornerstown Formations (Northeastern United States) with Some Field Guides 20 Palestine in Turmoil: Petersburg Winters and Disintegration of the Atom 15 Poetry and Psychiatry: Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Culture 23

R

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Books 3–5 of Psalms: Chapters 73–150 20 Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the First Book of Psalms: Chapters 1–41 20 Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the Second Book of Psalms: Chapters 42–72 20 Research in Jewish Demography and Identity 9 Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule 26 Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts 16

S

Sexuality and the Body in New Religious‑Zionist Discourse 10 Shoa and Experience: A Journey in Time 10 Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering 25 Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination 11 Survival and Trials of Revival: Psychodynamic Studies of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families in Israel and the Diaspora 9

T

Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia 16 The First to be Destroyed: The Jewish Community of Kleczew and the Beginning of the Final Solution 5

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The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac 17 The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture 24 The Israeli Nation-State: Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges 22 The Lost Temple of Israel 7 The Middle Way: The Emergence of ModernReligious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism—Responses to Modernity in the Philosophy of Z. H. Chajes, S. R. Hirsch, and S. D. Luzzatto, Volumes I and II 23 The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy 8 The Parting of the Ways: Judaism, Christianity, and the Psychoanalytic Theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung 9

INDEX

The Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation of the Jewish Culture: Philosophy of Biblical Law 24 The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933–1939, Volumes I and II 25 The Translator’s Doubts: Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation 17 The Wandering Jew in America 9 The Witching Hour and Other Plays 26 To Our Children: Memoirs of Displacement: Jewish Journey of Hope and Survival in 20th-Century Poland and Beyond 8 Twentieth-Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land 25

V

Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy 26 Vygotsky and Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition 11

W

Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi 17 Word and Image in Russian History: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker 18 50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories 15

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