Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of several new books in Jewish Studies. Please see below for recently published books, and take 25% off your order at www.academicstudiespress.com with promotional code *HIGHHOLIDAYS* through the end of September.
*Recently Published * *Advancing the Learning Agenda in Jewish Education <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/advancing-the-learning-agenda-in-jewish-education>*, edited by Jon A. Levisohn and Jeffrey S. Kress September 2018 | 219 pp.; 4 figs.; 2 tables 9781618117533 | $99.00 | CL 9781618118790 | $34.00 | PB *Summary:* Jewish educational projects and programs are thriving, attracting philanthropic support for exciting and creative approaches in every sector and setting. But underneath that energy, we are not as clear as we ought to be about desired outcomes, the kinds of learning needed to achieve these, and how those kinds of learning actually occur. This volume is the first of its kind to bring together scholars from inside Jewish education and from the learning sciences. It offers a set of critical perspectives on learning, sometimes borrowing models from other domains (such as science) and sometimes examining specific domains within Jewish education (such as *havruta* learning or the learning of Jewish history). Collectively, these contributions help to advance a smarter, sharper conversation about Jewish learning that matters. *Jon A. Levisohn* holds the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University, where he is also serves as the director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. A philosopher of education, he focuses on the teaching and learning of classical Jewish texts, and on the desired outcomes of Jewish education. He is co-editor of *Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts* (2013) and *Beyond Jewish Identity: Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives* (forthcoming). *Jeffrey S. Kress* is the Dr. Bernard Heller Associate Professor of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he also directs the research center of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. He focuses on developmental issues in Jewish education, especially social, emotional and spiritual development. He is the author of *Development, Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools* (2012) and the editor of *Growing Jewish Minds, Growing Jewish Souls: Promoting Spiritual, Social and Emotional Growth in Jewish Education* (2013). For more information on this title, please visit the book’s dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/advancing-the-learning-agenda-in-jewish-education -- *New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/new-directions-in-the-history-of-the-jews-in-the-polish-lands>*, edited by Antony Polonsky, Hanna Węgrzynek and Andrzej Żbikowski *Series:* Jews of Poland August 2018 | 572 pp. 9788394426293 | $149.00 | Cloth *Summary:* This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals with museological questions—the voices of the curators, comments on the POLIN museum exhibitions and projects, and discussions on Jewish museums and education. The second examines the current state of the historiography of the Jews on the Polish lands from the first Jewish settlement to the present day. Making use of the leading scholars in the field from Poland, Eastern and Western Europe, North America, and Israel, the volume provides a definitive overview of the history and culture of one of the most important communities in the long history of the Jewish people. *Antony Polonsky* is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. Until 1991, he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. His most recent work is *The Jews in Poland and Russia*, Volume 1, 1350 to 1881; Volume 2, 1881 to 1914; Volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version, *The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History*. *Hanna Węgrzynek* is a chief specialist for research and historical projects at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Among her books are *“Czarna legenda” Żydów: procesy mordy rytualne w dawnej Polsce* (The Jewish “Black Legend”: Blood Libel Trials in Old Poland, Warsaw, 1995) and *Historia i kultury Żydów polskich: słownik* (History and Culture of Polish Jews: A Reference Book), in cooperation with Alina Cała and Gabriela Zalewska (Warsaw, 2000). *Andrzej Żbikowski* has worked at the Jewish Historical Institute since 1985. Among his books are an illustrated history entitled *Żydzi* (Jews) in the series *A to Polska właśnie* and *U genezy Jedwabnego: Żydzi na Kresach Północno-Wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej : wrzesień 1939-lipiec 1941* (The Origins of Jedwabne. Jews in the North-eastern Borderlands of the Second Republic: September 1939-July 1941, Warsaw, 2006). For more information on this title, please visit the book’s dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/new-directions-in-the-history-of-the-jews-in-the-polish-lands -- *Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855–1913: “A major attack on Jewish freedoms” <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/anti-shechita-prosecutions-in-the-anglo-american-world>* by David Fraser *Series:* North American Jewish Studies July 2018 | 258 pp. 9781618117427 | $119.00 USD | Cloth *Summary:* This is the first study of historical attempts by animal welfare groups to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (*shechita*). It details cases from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, many for the first time, in which anti-animal cruelty groups prosecuted those engaged in shechita as part of their attempts to introduce compulsory stunning of animals before slaughter. Despite claims to the contrary, this study offers clear evidence of underlying, unrelenting antisemitic motivations in the prosecutions, and highlights the ways in which a basic idea of innate Jewish cruelty was always juxtaposed with an overtly Christian ideal of humane treatment of animals across time and borders. *David Fraser* is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on legal aspects of the Shoah and modern Jewish legal history in the Anglo-American world. He has previously published the book *“Honorary Protestants”: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997* (2015). 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