Dear Friends and Colleagues, Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of four new titles in January! Denial of the Denial, or the Battle of Auschwitz: The Demography and Geopolitics of the Holocaust Edited by Alfred Kokh, Pavel Polian ISBN 978-1-936235-34-6 350 pp. cloth $65.00
Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both historically and politically. This is due to the modernization of anti-Semitism in the West, where accusations of ritual murder have long been passe and claims that the Holocaust was a hoax are de riguer, and to the government sanctions of anti-Semitism in the East in countries such as Iran. The purely scholarly problem of determining the number of victims, like other aspects of demography related to the Holocaust, have suddenly become closely embroiled in geopolitics and the phenomenon of Holocaust denial, which is now a context that has been forced upon it. This book is imbued with these connections and interrelationships. Avraham, Wolfgang Benz, Sergio Della Pergola, Mark Kupovetsky, Dieter Pohl, Aron Shneer, and the editors contribute their voices to the topic. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Changing Women, Changing Society By Dahlia Moore ISBN 978-1-934843-84-0 250 pp. cloth $59.00 In One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Dahlia Moore explores the social and cultural forces at play in Israeli society and their effects on the changing status of women. While delving into some of Israel's unique and influential forces, such as the army, religious sects, and recent immigration, Moore also broadens her perspective, juxtaposing the status of Israeli women with that of women in other Western societies. An excellent resource for scholars of gender and gender attitudes looking beyond North America and Europe. Review: Delving into the historical realities of one specific society, Israel, Dahlia Moore enlarges our understanding of the interplay of ideologies and reality. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back presents an engaging and in-depth analysis of the forces that have sometimes fostered and more often impeded equality between the sexes in Israel. The book will provide fascinating reading to anyone who wishes to study the status of women - in Israel or around the world. -Faye J. Crosby, Co-editor of Sex Discrimination in Employment Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History Jewish Faith in a Changing World: A Modern Introduction to the World and Ideas of Classical Jewish Philosophy By Rafael Shucat ISBN 978-1-936235-68-1 250 pp. cloth $69.00 Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers like Maimonides, Gersonides, R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, and Rabbi A. I. Kook have grappled with the issues of Jewish faith and modernity. The works they published, which comprise Jewish classical philosophy, were products of the highest intellectual caliber, and no question of faith, no matter how embarrassing or heretical, was overlooked. In this book Raphael Shuchat presents the reader with some of the main and timeless issues of Jewish philosophy over the ages and updates them to twenty-first century thinking, making each issue relevant for the modern reader. This book offers a fresh intellectual outlook on the Jewish faith, and contains a timely message for all religionists and thinkers in the twenty-first century. It will be of great use to both students and laymen. Review: "Shuchat's keen pedagogical skills are always in evidence. This is a rich, thoughtful, and enjoyable introduction to Jewish philosophy, aimed at the general reader." -Zeev Harvey, chair of the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History The Jews, Instructions for Use: Four Eighteenth-Century Projects for the Emancipation of European Jews By Paolo Bernardini, Diego Lucci ISBN 978-1-936235-74-2 220 pp. cloth $69.00 This book examines the four most important projects for Jewish emancipation in eighteenth-century Europe. The essays presented in this volume analyze the proposal advanced by the freethinker John Toland in 1714 and three projects of the 1780s, formulated by the state official Christian Wilhelm von Dohm in Frederick the Great's Prussia, the economist Count D'Arco in Mantua under Habsburg rule, and the Abbe Henri Gregoire in France on the eve of the Revolution. Focusing on the combination of humanitarian and utilitarian arguments and objectives in the proposals to redefine the legal and social status of the Jews, this book is a particularly useful resource for scholars and students interested in the history of Jewish-Gentile relations and the Age of Enlightenment. **To order, please visit our website at <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/> www.academicstudiespress.com, alternatively you can always order online at Amazon or through most major retailers including Ingram and Baker &Taylor** Have a wonderful week! Best, Stephanie Monasky Sales and Marketing Academic Studies Press
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