Publications
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Babel' in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity
(2012)
Isaak Babel (1894–1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel was—an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who ...
Charms of the Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
(2010)
The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky ...
Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments
(2014)
Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a ...
The Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura
(2014)
The Mishna Berura is, without a doubt, Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan's greatest and most complex contribution to the canon of Orthodox Jewish Law; it is a singular work that synthesizes Jewish traditions, laws, and mores into a ...
Exotic Moscow Under Western Eyes
(2009)
This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” ...
Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008
(2009)
Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008 explores the construction of the Jew’s physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts ...
Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Intellectual History
(2014)
Between the years 1550 and 1650, Italy's Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical heritage of the Andalusian Jews and the Renaissance`s renewal of perspective. ...
Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule
(2013)
This new volume from the author of Scenarios of Power explores the effect of the symbolic and mythical representations of the Russian imperial government on law, administrative practice, and concepts of national and imperial ...
Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts
(2013)
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. ...
Самоуничижение Христа
(2022)
Russian-language edition: This three-volume book investigates the Russian transformations of one of the central concepts of Greek Christology, the self-humiliation or kenosis of Christ. The author applies rhetoric (paradox, ...
American Sociology and Holocaust Studies
(2017)
Filled with new elements that challenge common scholarly theses, this book acquaints the reader with the “Jewish problem” of sociology and provides what this academic discipline urgently needs: a one-volume history of the ...
Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Part II
(2022)
The book presents a broad-scope analysis of piezoelectric electromechanical transducers and the related aspects of practical transducer design for underwater applications. It uses an energy method for analyzing transducer ...
Learning to Read Talmud
(2019-07-25)
Finalist, 2017 National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity
"Learning to Read Talmud" is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies ...
Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy
(2014)
Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration continues the work begun in Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, which analyzed the interplay between the symbolic representations of Russian monarchs and the legal ...
Carnival in Tel Aviv
(2014)
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 ...
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought
(2021)
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels—from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth ...
Word and Image in Russian History
(2015-07-21)
''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 ...
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter
(2010-11-01)
While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev’s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a ...
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance
(2013-12-15)
In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the ...
The Marsh of Gold
(2008-09-01)
"Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life ...
Crafting the 613 Commandments
(2014-02-01)
Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a ...
Life in Transit
(2011-02-01)
"Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlich’s widely acclaimed
Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his ...
In Quest of Tolstoy
(2008-03-01)
Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral ...
Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes
(2009-03-01)
This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” ...
New Perspectives in Theology of Judaism
(2021)
If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper formula for a truly authentic work. The author sets ...
Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Part I
(2022)
The book is the most comprehensive coverage of piezoelectric acoustic transducers and all the related aspects of practical transducer designing for underwater applications in the field. It uses a physics-based energy method ...
The First to be Destroyed
(2015)
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 ...
Women and War = Жінки та війна
(2024)
What kind of letter would one write to those who live in peace and freedom and do not know what war is? Forty Ukrainian women between the ages of 10 and 72 have answered this question by writing letters that are now available ...
Gendered Violence
(2018-01-31)
This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic—the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period ...
Faith Honoring
(2024)
This book calls on educators to teach the whole child by including their faith as integral to their identity and offers suggestions for how to honor faith within a nurturing learning environment. Part One describes the ...
Der erniedrigte Christus = Самоуничижение Христа
(2024)
This three-volume book investigates the Russian transformations of one of the central concepts of Greek Christology, the self-humiliation or kenosis of Christ. The author applies rhetoric (paradox, metaphor, metonymy) as ...
The Translator’s Doubts
(2015-08-15)
Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. It attempts to bring together issues in translation and ...
The Goalkeeper
(2010-12-01)
"The Goalkeeperis a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov.
Himself an ardent goalkeeper, the author of Lolita viewed soccer as more than
a game: “I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper ...
By Fables Alone
(2014-06-09)
Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of Professor Andrei Zorin’s seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including “The ...
Macht Arbeit Frei?
(2018-01-01)
This book examines the forced labor of Jews in the General Government of Occupied Poland from 1939-1943. Specifically, it traces the bureaucratic understanding and use the terms "labor" and "work" in the General Government; ...
Chapaev and His Comrades
(2012-12-01)
"Across the twentieth century war was the central experience of the Russian people, spurring tales of the struggles and advances of the combat hero to become a prevailing Russian literary trope. In this wide spanning text ...
Keys to The Gift
(2011-08-01)
"Yuri Leving’s Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov’s most complex Russian
novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov’s private ...
Russians Abroad
(2013-06-01)
"This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris ...
Gone to Pitchipoi
(2012-10-01)
In Gone to Pitchipoi Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of ...
Before They Were Titans
(2015-04-15)
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 ...