Dear Friends and Colleagues, Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of six new titles in Jewish Studies:
Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts Edited by Jon Levisohn and Sue Fendrick Series: Jewish Identity in Post-Modern Society ISBN 978-1-93623-563-6 435 pp. cloth $69.00 The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camps, universities and yeshivot. But serious inquiry into the practices and purposes of such study is far rarer. In Turn it and Turn it Again, a diverse collection of empirical and conceptual studies illuminates particular aspects of the teaching of Bible and rabbinic literature to children and adults. In addition to providing specific insights into the pedagogy of Jewish texts, these studies serve as models of what the disciplined study of pedagogy can look like. The book will be of interest to teachers of Jewish texts in all contexts, and will be particularly valuable for the professional development of Jewish educators. "Coherent, illuminating and a joy to read. These essays connect modern analytic scholarship on classical texts with the most current bodies of theory and practice in the study of teaching and learning. The book deserves a place on the desk of every serious Jewish educator."-Lee S. Shulman, President Emeritus, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University German Jewry between Hope and Despair (1871-1933) Edited by Nils Roemer ISBN 978-1-93484-387-1 Series: Jews in Space and Time 360 pp. cloth $99.00 German Jewry between Hope and Despair provides important interpretations of the tumultuous and conflict-ridden period of 1871-1933, and invites readers to partake in the ongoing debate over modern Jewish identities and cultures. Marked at the outset by emancipation and the emergence of modern anti-Semitism, the period witnessed a profound transformation of Jewish social, political, and religious life, culminating in the renaissance of Jewish cultures on the eve of the Holocaust. This text unites studies that inform our understanding of this historical epoch, as well as significant historical revisions. Among the many contributions are texts by Michael Brenner, Willi Goetschel, Marion Kaplan, George L. Mosse, Peter Pulzer, and Till van Rahden. Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South: Southern Jewish Women and Identity in the Antebellum and Civil War South By Jennifer Stollman ISBN 978-1-61811-206-4 260 pp. cloth $59.00 In Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South, Jennifer Stollman examines southern Jewish womanhood during the Antebellum and Civil War eras. This study finds that in the Protestant South southern Jewish women created and maintained unique American Jewish identities through their efforts in education, writing, religious observance, paid and unpaid labor, and relationships with whites and African-American slaves. This book explores how these women creatively fought proselytization, challenged anti-Semitism, maintained a distinctive southern Judaism, promoted their own status and legitimacy as southerners, and worked diligently as Confederate ambassadors. The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy By Sara Reguer ISBN 978-1-61811-244-6 240 pp. cloth $69.00 Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity. This book traces the foundations of their community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives as they moved between northern and southern Italy. Over the centuries these localized Italian groups were reinforced with the arrival of German, Provencal, Sephardic, and-most recently-Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews. Surviving religious persecution, ghettoization, and the Holocaust, the Jews contributed to Italian society when they could. Supplemented by maps, illustrations, sidebars, and primary sources, this book is a scholarly yet popular overview of a minority group that is proud to be Italian and equally proud to be Jewish. Encounters in Modern Jewish Thought: The Works of Eva Jospe Volume One: Martin Buber Edited by Raphael Jospe and Dov Schwartz ISBN 978-1-61811-265-1 Series: Classics in Judaica 300 pp. cloth $69.00 The first of a three-volume series, this book offers access to a rich selection of Eva Jospe's most distinguished works on Jewish Philosophy. The editors unveil Jospe's previously unpublished study "The Concept of Encounter in the Philosophy of Martin Buber," presented alongside several of her published articles on the life and work of Buber, and on Modern Jewish thought. The second volume of this series contains Jospe's translations of Moses Mendelssohn, and Volume Three is comprised of her Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen. Together, these volumes offer a multidimensional view of Jospe's work and thoughts, including a heightened awareness of the paradox noted by Ephraim Meir in his introduction-Jospe's appreciation and admiration of Martin Buber, reflected in her clear presentation and analysis of his dialogical philosophy, simultaneously coupled with her pointed criticisms of the standpoint of her one-time teacher. Volumes II and III are slated for release in July. My Four Years in Soviet Russia By Yitzkhak Erlichson, Translated by Maurice Wolfthal 978-1-61811-254-5 Series: Jews of Poland 200 pp. cloth $59.00 This is the story of Yitzhak Erlichson, writing under the name Jerzy Edison, a Polish Jew who was nineteen years old when he escaped the Nazis by fleeing toward the USSR from his hometown, Wierzbnik. There he hoped to find a land true to its official ideals of justice, equality, and brotherhood. Arrested as an English spy, he was sent to prisons and slave-labor camps, and after his release worked and traveled in the USSR. To his dismay, he found injustice, inequality, and anti-Semitism 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, during the war, and she nursed him back to health following his final imprisonment. He later returned to Wierzbnik only to learn that none of his family survived the German occupation. This fascinating story sheds new light on the realities of life in the USSR during the Second World War. **To order, please visit our website at www.academicstudiespress.com. Alternatively, you can always order online at Amazon or through most major retailers including Ingram and Baker &Taylor** Please note that if you order directly from us you will receive a 25% discount! Please use promo code June25. Have a wonderful day! Best, Simon Winchell-Manning Sales and Marketing Coordinator Academic Studies Press
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