Academic Studies Press Catalog 2015 — Spring 2016 n 2015–2016, Academic Studies Press is pleased to launch a number of new series. “Ukrainian Studies,” headed by Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas), seeks to carve out new arenas in I Ukrainian studies and develop and improve existing ones, welcoming both traditional approaches as well as innovative frameworks that experiment with scholarly forms. “Polish Studies,” under the editorship of Halina Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin – Madison), aims to showcase the richness of Polish studies in the twenty-first century, seeking fresh insights and charting new directions in the field. “The Unknown Nineteenth Century,” headed by Joe Peschio (University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee), uncovers new literary facts in the history of nineteenth-century Russian literature, even in the most familiar of places. Under the guidance of David Bethea (University of Wisconsin – Madison), “Liber Primus” provides a rigorous venue for authors who are publishing their first monograph. “Film and Media Studies,” edited by Elena Prokhorova and Alexander Prokhorov (both from College of William and Mary), presents a lively scholarly dialogue on a wide range of topics within film and media studies, focusing on the cinema and media culture of Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucuses, and Central Asia in regional and global contexts. Finally, “Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History,” led by Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University of London), features publications on non-Western literatures, cultural theory, and intellectual history, although mainstream European and North American developments are also part of its editorial program. In 2015, ASP has added to its collection many important titles. Among these, Russian Silver Age: Texts and Contexts, edited by Sibelan E. S. Forrester and Martha M. F. Kelly, introduces the poetry, manifestoes, experimentation, and debates of the Russian Silver Age, meticulously selected by Forrester and Kelly, who sometimes provide their own translations when suitable ones could not be found. Avi Sagi and Yakir Englander’s Sexuality and The Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse explores the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace. Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought (Volume 2)—A Tradition of Inquiry, edited by Lewis Aron and Libby Henik, brings together an international collection of contemporary scholars and clinicians to address the interface and mutual influence of Jewish thought and modern psychoanalysis—two traditions of inquiry. Founded in 2007, Academic Studies Press has established itself as a scholarly publisher in Jewish and Slavic studies, and is currently expanding its scope in the fields of Eastern European and Middle Eastern studies. Our monographs, multi-authored collections, anthologies, critical companions, and translations are frequently and highly recommended by CHOICE, and have received many awards. All titles are curated in collaboration with our series editors who are major scholars in their respective fields, and undergo peer review before official acceptance. Academic Studies Press Catalog 2015 — Spring 2016 CONTENTS Jewish Studies ........................................................................................... 4 Slavic Studies ...........................................................................................12 Touro College Press ....................................................................................19 Featured 2014 Titles ...................................................................................21 Award Winners ..........................................................................................27 Ordering and Contact Information ................................................................30 Index ......................................................................................................32 JEWISH STUDIES Answering a Question with a Attuned Learning: Question: Rabbinic Texts on Habits of the Heart in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Learning Interactions Thought (Volume II). A Tradition of Inquiry Elie Holzer Edited by Lewis Aron and Libby Henik Series: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Series: Jewish Identity in Post-Modern Society February 2015 |$55.00 | 384 pp. | March 2016 | $69.00 | approx. 300 pp. | 9781618114808 | 9781618114471 | Hardback Hardback Inquiry and questioning are defining Groundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts lead features of Jewish scholarship. They are the reader through an exploration of “attuned learning”—an also central to Freud’s psychoanalytic emerging paradigm of mindfulness that emphasizes alertness method. In Answering a Question with a to one’s own mental, emotional, and physical workings as well Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis as awareness of others within the complexities of learning and Jewish Thought (Volume II): A interactions. The pedagogical is integrated with the ethical in Tradition of Inquiry, editors Aron and transformative teaching and learning; repair of educational Henik have brought together an disruptions; the role of the human visage; and the dynamics international assembly of scholars of argumentative and collaborative learning. Textual analyses and clinicians to address the bi-directional influence of Jewish reveal how deliberate self-cultivation not only infuses ethics thought and contemporary psychoanalysis, two traditions of and spirituality into the growth of teachers, learners, and inquiry. The themes presented are universal: trauma, traumatic co-learners, but also offers a potential corrective for calculative reenactment, intergenerational transmission of trauma, love, modalities in contemporary educational thinking. The author loss, mourning, ritual—subjects of particular relevance to speaks to the existential, humanizing art of education, enabling Jewish thought and history as well as to psychoanalysis, both readers to examine, expand, or revisit their beliefs and practices. theoretically and clinically. Elie Holzer is a practice-oriented philosopher of Jewish Lewis Aron, PhD is the Director of the New York University education who serves in Bar-Ilan University’s School of Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Education. His research integrates text-based Jewish studies, is internationally recognized as a leader, teacher, scholar, and philosophical hermeneutics, pedagogy, and ethical-spiritual innovative contributor in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. traditions. His book (with Orit Kent), A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs Libby Henik, MSW trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy (Academic Studies Press, 2013) won the 2014 National Jewish at the Karen Horney Institute. She holds an MA in Hebrew Book Award. Literature and studied biblical exegesis at Bar-Ilan University. Her articles explore the bi-directional influence of psychoanalysis and Jewish thought. Also from this Author: A Philosophy of Havruta: Also Available: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Answering a Question with a Question: Text Study in Pairs Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Elie Holzer with Orit Kent Jewish Thought, Volume I November 2013 | $49.00 | 264 pp. | Edited by Lewis Aron and Libby Henik 9781618112903 | Hardback May 2010 | $49.00 | 424 pp. | 9781934843376 | Hardback JEWISH STUDIES 4 The First to be Destroyed: History, Memory, and The Jewish Community of Kleczew and the Jewish Identity Beginning of the Final Solution Edited by Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn, and Lorenzo DiTommaso Anetta Głowacka‑Penczyńska, Tomasz Kawski, and Witold W. Mędykowski Edited by Tuvia Horev Series: Judaism and Jewish Life Series: North American Jewish Studies July 2015 | $75.00 | 648 pp.; December 2015 | $79.00 | approx. 390 pp. | 74 illus.; 32 tables; 7 maps | 9781618114747 | Hardback 9781618112842 | Hardback This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of The Jewish community of the city of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central Kleczew came into existence in the theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can sixteenth century. It remained large help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their and strong throughout the next four Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the ways in hundred years, and in the eighteenth which Jews responded to and made use of the past. If Jews’ and nineteenth centuries it constituted choices of what to include, emphasize, omit, and invent in their 40–60% of the total population. The representation of the past is a fundamental variable, then this German army entered Kleczew on volume contributes to the creation of a more nuanced approach September 15, 1939, shortly after the to the construction of the histories of Jews and their thought. outbreak of World War II. The communities of Kleczew and the vicinity were among the first Jewish collectives in Europe to Ira Robinson is Chair in Quebec and Canadian Jewish Studies be totally destroyed. The events presented in this book reveal in the Department of Religion and Director of the Institute for that the organization of deportations and the methods of mass Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University. He is president murder conducted in this district, by Kommando Lange, served of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies, and was the 2013 as a model that would be applied later in the death