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    • AJS Honors Its Authors

    The AJS is pleased to celebrate the 2023 books of AJS members as part of the AJS Honors Its Authors program.

    Books will recognized throughout 2023 in a number of ways, including:

    •   »   Shared in a social media post featuring your book only

    And, new in 2023:

    To submit your 2023 book, please click here to complete the online form.

    Please note: You must be a current AJS member to have your book included in the AJS Honors Its Program. 

    As part of the online registration form, you will be asked to attach your book's cover art (JPG or PNG file format) and a 30-second video about your book (MP4 file format). You will not be able to update this form once it has been submitted, so please have these files ready in advance of submission. Please note: These items are not required, but we do encourage you to include them. The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit this form.

     

    2022 Books by AJS Members

    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

    Anne-Albert

    Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam
    Anne O. Albert
    Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

    Choosing-Hope-Cover-Final---David-Arnow

    Choosing Hope: The Heritage of Judaism
    David Arnow
    The Jewish Publication Society /
    University of Nebraska Press

    bailey

    German Jews in Love: A History
    Christian Bailey
    Stanford University Press

    baumgarten

    Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages
    Elisheva Baumgarten
    University of Pennsylvania Press

    Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350

    Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350
    Elisheva Baumgarten, Tzafrir Barzilay, and Eyal Levinson
    Medieval Institute Publications

    Yossi-Chajes

    The Kabbalistic Tree האילן הקבלי
    J. H. Chajes
    Penn State University Press
    View Video

    Modern-Musar---Geoffrey-Claussen

    Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought
    Geoffrey Claussen
    Jewish Publication Society/University of Nebraska Press

    ionnides

    Creating Community: The Jews of Springfield, Missouri
    Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
    Greene County Historical Society

    ionnides

    Jews of Missouri: An Ornament to Israel
    Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
    Ozarks Studies Instituite Press

    The Oxford Annotated Mishnah

    The Oxford Annotated Mishnah: A New Translation of the Mishnah With Annotations and Notes
    Shaye J. D. Cohen, Hayim Lapin, and Robert Goldenberg, coeditors
    Oxford University Press
    View Video

    American Jewish Year Book 2020

    American Jewish Year Book 2020
    Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin, coeditors
    Springer Nature

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    American Jewish Year Book 2021
    Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin, coeditors
    Springer Nature

    Sidra D E

    Figuring Jerusalem Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center
    Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, coeditors
    The University of Chicago Press

    Kenedy,-Rebhun,-_-Ehrlich-(eds)-Israel-_-Diaspora-(2022)-cover---Carl-E.

    Israel and the Diaspora: Jewish Connectivity in a Changing World
    Carl S. Ehrlich, Uzi Rebhun, and Robert A. Kenedy, coeditors
    Springer

    Jewish-Identities-Book-Cover---Ellen-Eisenberg
    Mark-Elber

    Headstone
    Mark Elber
    Passager Books

    fraade

    The Damascus Document
    Steven A. Fraade
    Oxford University Press
    View Video

    fram
    David Ehrlich

    Café Shira: A Novel by David Ehrlich
    Ken Frieden, series editor
    Syracuse University Press

    Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity

    Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity
    Gregg E. Gardner
    University of California Press

    glauz

    Judging Jewish Identity in the United States
    Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank
    Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books

    Sephardi Voices

    Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands
    Henry Green and Richard Stursberg
    Figure 1 Publishing
    View Video

    China-AshkenazicJewry_Cover---Kathryn-Hellerstein

    China and Ashkenazic Jewry Transcultural Encounters
    Kathryn Hellerstein and Lihong Song, coeditors
    De Gruyter

    kahn

    Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menze
    Susan Martha Kahn
    Brandeis University Press

    kaplan

    Rare Stuff
    Brett Ashley Kaplan
    Spuyten Duyvil
    View Video

    Heidi-Kaufman
    kirzane

    Judith: A Tale of Love and Woe by Miriam Karpilove
    Jessica Kirzane, translator
    Farlag Press

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    Rebecca-A-Kobrin
    Barbara-Krasner

    Ethel's Song Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems
    Barbara D. Krasner
    Calkins Creek/Astra Books for Young Readers

    SHIFTING-BASELINE-SYNDROME-cover-HIGH-RES----Aaron-Kreuter

    Shifting Baseline Syndrome
    Aaron Kreuter
    University of Regina Press

    krummel

    The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time
    Miriamne Ara Krummel
    University of Michigan Press

    Book-cover---Daniel-Lasker

    Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism
    Daniel J. Lasker
    Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

    lehman

    Bringing Down the Temple House: Engendering Tractate Yoma
    Marjorie Lehman
    Brandeis University Press

    The-Baron-cover---Matthias-Lehmann
    lerner

    Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
    Paul Lerner, Anne Schenderlein, and Uwe Spiekermann, coeditors
    Palgrave Macmillan

    lilach-lev-ari

    Maurice Samuel: Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
    Alan T. Levenson
    The University of Alabama Press

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    Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman's Experience by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
    Holli Gwen Levitsky and Justyna Wlodarczyk, coeditors; Paula Parsky, translator
    Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books

    lightman

    Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders
    Sarah Lightman, Heike Bauer, and Andrea Greenbaum, coeditors
    Syracuse University Press

    Mann-object-cover---Barbara-Mann

    The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History
    Barbara E. Mann
    Yale University Press

    product_pages---Michelle-Margolis

    Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
    Michelle Margolis, Gerben Zaagsma, and Miriam Ruerup, coeditors
    De Gruyter

    American-Shtetl---David-Myers

    American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, New York, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
    David N. Meyers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg
    Princeton University Press

    Cover-Art-Professor-of-the-Apocalypse---Jerry-Muller

    Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
    Jerry Z. Muller
    Princeton University Press

    Professor der Apokalypse: Die Vielen Leben des Jacob Taubes, German edition translated by Ursula Kömen and published by Suhrkamp/Jüdischer Verlag

    nadell

    הנשים היהודיות של אמריקה: מן התקופה הקולוניאליסטית ועד ימינו
    (Hebrew translation of America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today)
    Pamela Nadell
    Ben Gurion University Press / University of Haifa

    norich

    Fear and Other Stories: Collected Stories of Chana Blankshteyn
    Anita Norich, translator
    Wayne State University Press

    patterson
    Jewish_Experiences_across_the_Americas_Cover---Katalin-Rac

    Jewish Experiences across the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses
    Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, coeditors
    University of Florida Press

    rebhun

    A Double Burden: Israeli Jews in Contemporary Germany
    Uzi Rebhun , Dani Kranz, and Heinz Sunker
    SUNY Press

    reguer

    Onto Center Stage: The Biblical Woman
    Sara Reguer
    Cherry Orchard Books / Academic Studies Press

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    Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish: Polish Jewish History Reflected and Refracted
    Moshe Rosman
    Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/ Liverpool University Press

    Possession-and-dispossession---Diego-Rotman

    Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem
    Diego Rotman, Lea Mauas, and Michelle MacQueen, coeditors
    De Gruyter

    Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture Russ-Fishbane

    Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture
    Elisha Russ-Fishbane
    Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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    santerre

    La Littérature inouïe: Témoigner des camps dans l'après-guerre
    Ariane Santerre
    Presses universitaires de Rennes

    schachter

    Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939
    Allison Schachter
    Northwestern University Press

    maeera-shreiber

    Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone
    Maeera Yaffa Shreiber
    Fordham University Press

    Stackert-YUP-Cover-image---Jeffrey-Stackert

    Deuteronomy and the Pentatateuch
    Jeffrey Stackert
    Yale University Press

    steinlauf

    This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History
    Michael Steinlauf and Elżbieta Janicka
    Cherry Orchard Books / Academic Studies Press

    Max-Strassfeld
    Josh-Teplitsky

    Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History
    Joshua Teplitsky, Sharon Liberman Mintz, and Warren Klein, editors
    Mineged Publishing

    thompson

    Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition
    Jennifer A. Thompson and Allison B. Wolf, editors
    Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books

    front_cover---Katie-Trostel

    The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space that Travels
    Katharine G. Trostel, Chiara Camarda, and Amanda K. Sharick, coeditors
    University of Massachusetts Press

    KeyConceptsCover---Scott-Ury

    Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism
    Scott Ury, Kalman Weiser, and Sol Goldberg, coeditors
    Palgrave Macmillan

    wallach

    German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations
    Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada
    Berghahn Books

    Lilith

    Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine
    Susan Weidman-Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough
    Brandeis University Press

    David-Weinfeld

    An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism
    David Weinfeld and Yona Zeldis McDonough
    Cornell University Press

    yadin
    Zilbergerts_Yeshiva-and-the-Rise-of-Modern-Hebrew-Literature_S22_cover_final---Marina-Zilbergerts

    The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature
    Marina Zilbergerts
    Indiana University Press
    View Video

    BOOK-COVER---Jzimme6084

    Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland
    Joshua D. Zimmerman
    Harvard University Press

    zola

    New Perspectives in American Jewish History: A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna
    Gary Phillip Zola and Mark Raider
    Brandeis University Press

    Die Nacht

    Die Nacht: Erinnerung und Zeugnis – Neu übersetzt
    A New German Translation of Elie Wiesel's Night
    Christin Zühlke, translator
    Herder