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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 IUkrainian 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

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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 camps winner of the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies during the mass extermination of Polish and European Jewry. If Distinguished Service Award, Association for Canadian Jewish so, it was in the woods near Kleczew that the “Final Solution of Studies. the Jewish Question” began. Witold W. Mędykowski is an historian and political scientist. Naftali S. Cohn is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia He received his PhD degree in Political Science at the Institute University. His book, The Memory of the Temple and the Making of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2010, and of the Rabbis, was recently published by the University of another PhD in Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University Pennsylvania Press. of Jerusalem in 2014. He is a Senior Specialist at the Yad Vashem Lorenzo DiTommaso is Professor of Religion at Concordia Archives. University, Montréal. His next book, The Architecture of Tomasz Kawski is a researcher in the Institute of History and Apocalypticism, the first volume of a trilogy, is forthcoming from International Relationships (IHiSM) at UKW in Bydgoszcz. Oxford University Press. Anetta Głowacka‑Penczyńska has been working at the University of Bydgoszcz since 1998 and defended her PhD dissertation in 2006. Since 2007, she has been an Assistant Also from this Editor: Professor in the Department of Cultural History at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Tuvia Horev (PhD, MPH, DMD) has served in high‑ranking Spirit positions in the Israeli healthcare system, as well as in research Edited by Ira Robinson institutes and academia. As a descendant of a family that lived in Kleczew for generations, Dr. Horev’s contribution to this book July 2013 | $95.00 | 504 pp. | has been given out of a personal commitment to promote 9781934843864 | Hardback historical research on Jewish life in Eastern Greater Poland.

JEWISH STUDIES 5 Jewish City or Inferno of Jewish Ludmir: Russian Israel? The History and Tragedy of the Jewish A History of the Jews in Kiev before Community of Volodymyr‑Volynsky February 1917 A Regional History Victoria Khiterer Volodymyr Muzychenko With an introduction by Antony Polonsky Series: Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and their Legacy Translated by Marta Daria Olynik

February 2016 | $89.00 | approx. pp; | Series: Jews of Poland 9781618114761 | Hardback July 2015 | $69.00 | 378 pp.; 169 This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth illus. | 9781618114129 | Hardback century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of This volume is a brief history the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book of the Jewish community of illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish Volodymyr‑Volynsky, going back to history, including the creation of the Jewish community, the its first historical mentions. It explores expulsions of Jews from the city, government persecution and Jewish settlement in the city, the kahal, Jewish pogroms, the Beilis Affair, the participation of Jews and the role of the community in the in the political, economic, and cultural life of Kiev, and their Va’ad Arba Aratsot, and profiles several contribution to the development of the city. important historical figures, including Shelomoh of Karlin and Khane‑Rokhl Victoria Khiterer is an Assistant Professor of History and the Werbermacher (the Maiden of Ludmir). It also considers the Director of the Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at city’s synagogues and Jewish cemetery, and explores the Millersville University, PA. She is the author and editor of four twentieth ‑century history of the community, especially during books and over eighty articles in Russian and Eastern European the Holocaust. Drawing on survivor eyewitness testimonies, the Jewish History. author pays tribute to the town’s Righteous among the Nations and describes efforts to preserve the memory of its Jewish community, including the creation of the Piatydni memorial, Also of Interest: and lists prominent Jews born in Volodymyr‑Volynsky and natives of the city living abroad. This book will be of interest Life In Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, to historians of the Jewish communities and the Holocaust in 1945-1950 Ukraine, as well as to the general reader. Shimon Redlich Volodymyr Muzychenko was born in Sarny, Ukraine. February 2011 | $45.00 | 282 pp. | He graduated from the Rivne Music College and the 9781936235216 | Hardback Rivne State Institute of Culture. Since 1988 he has lived in Volodymyr‑Volynskiy. He teaches guitar at a children’s music school and is the head of the town’s small Jewish community. Muzychenko has researched the history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr‑Volynsky extensively and takes care of the town’s Jewish graves and sites of execution.

JEWISH STUDIES 6 Judaism as Philosophy: The Image of Jews in Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Contemporary China Jewish Philosophers of Provence Edited by James Ross and Lihong Song Howard Kreisel

Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Series: Jewish Identity in Post-Modern Society September 2015 | $79.00 | approx. 500 pp. | March 2016 | $79.00 | 9781618114204 | Approx. 300 pp. | 9781618111791 | Hardback Hardback The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Bookstores in Chinese cities are stocked with dozens of Maimonides’ philosophy and that of his followers in Provence. Chinese-language books on how Jews conduct business, At the heart of these topics lies the issue of whether they manage the world, and raise their children. At least ten adopted a completely naturalistic picture of the workings of universities throughout China offer popular Jewish Studies the world order, or left room for the volitional activity of God in programs, some with advanced degrees. Yet there are virtually history. These topics include divine law, creation, the Account of no Jews in China. The Chinese are constructing an identity the Chariot, prophet and sage, Mosaic prophecy, reasons for the for a people that the large majority of them will never meet. commandments, and prayer. Special attention is paid to three This edited volume critically examines the image of Jews from lesser known but highly significant Provençal Jewish thinkers: the contemporary perspective of ordinary Chinese citizens. Moses Ibn Tibbon, Levi ben Avraham, and Moses of Marseilles. It includes chapters on Chinese Jewish Studies programs, popular Chinese books and blogs about Jews, China’s relations Howard (Haim) Kreisel teaches in the Department of Jewish with Israel, and innovative examinations of the ancient Jewish Thought at Ben‑Gurion University of the Negev. He holds the community of Kaifeng. Miriam Martha Hubert Chair in Jewish Thought and is the Director of the Goldstein‑Goren International Center for Jewish James Ross is an associate professor at Northeastern University Thought. He has written extensively in the field of medieval in Boston, former Fulbright lecturer at Nanjing University, and Jewish philosophy. Among the books he has authored are author of Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora Maimonides’ Political Thought and Prophecy: The History of an (Riverhead, 2000). Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Lihong Song is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Nanjing University, and most recently the Also of Interest: author of Rome and Jerusalem (2015). Maimonides As Biblical Interpreter Sara Klein-Braslavy July 2011 | $69.00 | 306 pp. | 9781936235285 | Hardback

Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, “ ” – H. Norman Strickman, Touro College, author of Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments

Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments Albert D. Friedberg February 2015 | $85.00 | 400 pp. | 9781618111678 | Hardback

JEWISH STUDIES 7 My Father’s Journey: To Our Children: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania Memoirs of Displacement. Jewish Journey Sara Reguer of Hope and Survival in 20th-Century Poland and Beyond Włodzimierz Szer Translated by Bronisława Karst Series: Studies in Orthodox Judaism Series: Jews of Poland March 2015 | $39.00 | 264 pp.; 43 March 2016 | $49.00 | aprrox. 300 pp. | 9781618114785 | illus. | 9781618114143 | Hardback Hardback Born into a leading Lithuanian‑Jewish This book takes the reader through Dr. Włodzimierz Szer’s rabbinic family, Moshe Aron Reguer childhood in Yiddish prewar Warsaw, adolescence and initially followed the path of traditional imprisonment in wartime Russia, to the brutal reality of yeshiva education. His adolescence immediate postwar Poland, and the years of the socialist coincided with World War I and its regime. Although largely autobiographical, the book provides upheavals, pandemics, and pogroms, a historically and intellectually compelling analysis of the social as well as with new ideas of Haskalah, and political situation in Poland and Soviet Russia from the early Zionism, and socialism. He wrote his 1930s to 1967. memoir at the age of 23, on the eve Włodzimierz Szer was a Professor of Biochemistry at NYU, of his departure for Israel in 1926. However, his story did not who authored 170 papers, educated generations of students, end there, but continued in British Mandated Palestine and the United States. He kept in touch with the family in Brest‑Litovsk and raised a family. He spoke several languages fluently and until the Nazis destroyed Jewish Lithuania, and some of their flawlessly, including Polish, English, Yiddish, and Russian. correspondence is included within this volume. He loved chess, travel, good company, food, and a drink. He was politically astute, deeply well‑informed, and a wonderful Sara Reguer has been chair of the Department of Judaic storyteller. Studies at Brooklyn College for over 25 years. She is co‑editor Bronisława Karst grew up in Warsaw, Poland. She left Poland and co‑author of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa for the United States in 1969 after the government’s anti‑Semitic in Modern Times (2003), and most recently authored The Most campaign. She obtained a Master’s degree in French and a PhD Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy (2013). in Comparative Literature. Retired from teaching, she lives in Buffalo, NY. Also from this Author: The Most Tenacious of Minorities: Also in this Series: The Jews of Italy Biography and Memory: Sara Reguer The Generational Experience of the June 2013 | $69.00 | 192 pp.; 8 illus.; Shoah Survivors 5 maps | 9781618112446 | Hardback Kaja Kazmierska May 2012 | $109.00 | 396 pp. | 9781936235780 | Hardback

JEWISH STUDIES 8 The Parting of the Ways: Research in Jewish Judaism, Christianity, and the Demography and Identity Psychoanalytic Theories of Sigmund Freud Edited by Eli Lederhendler and Uzi Rebhun and Carl Jung Richard L. Kradin

Series: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Series: Jewish Identities in Life Post‑Modern Society December 2015 | $69.00 | approx. March 2015 | $89.00 | 426 pp.; 290 pp. | 9781618114228 | 75 tables; 19 illus. | Hardback 9781618114396 | Hardback The Enlightenment signaled This book contains fifteen original diminished popular reliance on papers covering a broad spectrum the religious “cure of the soul,” of topics in Jewish demography and and witnessed the emergence of identity, considering both Diaspora psychoanalysis. From its inception, communities and the population of Freud’s psychoanalysis was accused Israel. While most of the papers make of being a “Jewish science,” and he use of quantitative data, some are countered by including non‑Jewish Swiss psychiatrists in the based on qualitative and archive materials. The book is divided new movement. Carl Jung eventually broke with Freud over into five parts, reflecting different complementary dimensions differences concerning psychoanalytical theory and practice. investigated: historical demography, history, and politics, The current text explores the religious underpinnings of immigration and immigrant adaptation, transnationalism, and psychoanalysis, contrasting the textual and mystical traditions demography and identity. This work is dedicated to Professor of Judaism with those of Christianity. It demonstrates that Sergio DellaPergola upon his retirement from teaching at the differences in the fundamental tenets of Judaism and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Christianity have had a profound and continued influence on psychoanalysis. Eli Lederhendler is the Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Hebrew University Richard L. Kradin, MD is a physician and psychoanalyst at of Jerusalem, where he teaches in the Jewish History and Massachusetts General Hospital, a training analyst at the Contemporary Jewry Department. He is co‑editor of the annual C. G. Jung Institute‑Boston, and professor at Harvard Medical series, Studies in Contemporary Jewry. School. His recent publications include Pathologies of the Mind/ Uzi Rebhun is the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel‑Diaspora Body Interface: Exploring the Curious Domain of the Psychosomatic Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently he Disorders (Routledge 2012), and he is the author of over 200 is the Head of the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry articles in medical, psychiatric, and psychoanalytical literature. at the Hebrew University. He specializes in the demography of world Jewry, Jewish migration, Jewish identification, and the Jewish family. Also in this Series:

Survival and Trials of Revival: Also from this Author: Psychodynamic Studies of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families in Israel The Wandering Jew in America and the Diaspora Uzi Rebhun Hillel Klein June 2011 | $60.00 | 156 pp.; 24 tables; June 2012 | $85.00 | 276 pp. | 1 map | 9781936235261 | Hardback 9781936235896 | Hardback

JEWISH STUDIES 9 Sexuality and the Body in New Shoa and Experience: Religious‑Zionist Discourse A Journey in Time Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi Edited by Nitza Davidovitch and Dan Soen

Series: Israel: Society, Culture and Series: The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and History Philosophy August 2015 | $89.00 | 300 pp. | November 2015 | $59.00 | approx. 310 pp. | 9781618114525 | Hardback 9781618113108 | Hardback The religious‑Zionist community in This book explores the nature of Holocaust education and Israel developed as an attempt to its development for current and future generations—both in combine commitment to Jewish law Israel and worldwide. Special attention is given to the impact with the values of modernity, two of a multi‑media society on contemporary youth culture. This networks of meaning coexisting in book will help Holocaust educators and curriculum developers tension and not easily reconciled. to design Holocaust education and attune it to the current Through its analysis of the discourse on generation’s nature and needs. It is intended to prepare sexuality as it emerges in a new, online educators to lead programs and initiate encounters designed version of a traditional genre—responsa literature—Sexuality to teach youngsters about the Holocaust from multiple and the Body in the New Religious‑Zionist Discourse develops an perspectives. innovative paradigm for reading religious cultures in modern Nitza Davidovitch serves in teaching and administrative societies, centering on the body as the realm of confrontation positions and is the Head of Quality Assessment and Academic and considering such aspects as homosexuality, lesbianism, Instruction at Ariel University; she is also the Head of the Israeli masturbation, and the relationships between the sexes. Forum of Faculty Development Centers. Avi Sagi is professor of philosophy, founder of the Dan Soen, Ariel University, has been teaching since 1961 in interdisciplinary graduate program in hermeneutics and cultural higher education institutions in Israel, New Zealand, the United studies at the Bar Ilan University, and faculty member at the States, and South Africa. He has published over 125 articles in Shalom Hartman Institute, in Jerusalem. He has written and scientific journals, and has edited and written over 30 books edited numerous books and articles in Jewish and general on topics related to sociology, regional and urban issues, philosophy. behavioral sciences, and more recently, Holocaust memory and Yakir Englander is a Visiting Scholar at The Divinity School at education. Harvard University. His book, The Perception of the Male Body in Lithuanian Ultra‑Orthodox Society During the Last Sixty Years, will be published by the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Also of Interest: Identity and Pedagogy: Shoah Also from this Author: Education in Israeli State Schools Jewish Religion After Theology Erik H. Cohen Avi Sagi July 2013 | $85.00 | 348 pp.; 27 tables; 10 illus. | 9781936235810 | Hardback May 2009 | $59.00 | 264 pp. | 9781934843208 | Hardback

JEWISH STUDIES 10 Summer Haven: Vygotsky and Bernstein in the The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Light of Jewish Tradition Literary Imagination Antonella Castelnuovo and Bella S. Kotik‑Friedgut Edited by Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown Preface by Clotilde Pontecorvo

Series: Jews of Russia and Eastern Series: Judaism and Jewish Life Europe and their Legacy February 2015 | $49.00 | 310 pp.; August 2015 | $69.00 | 416 pp.; 4 illus. | 9781936235582 | 25 illus. | 9781618114181 | Hardback Hardback Vygotsky and Bernstein in the Light of Summer Haven: The Catskills, Jewish Tradition examines the role that the Holocaust, and the Literary Jewish cultural tradition played in the Imagination provides a collection of the work of the Russian psychologist Lev S. most important writing that explores Vygotsky and of the British sociologist the stories and struggles of survivors Basil Bernstein, highlighting aspects of in the Catskills, presenting new and their respective lives and theories to existing works of fiction and memoir reveal significant influences of Jewish by writers who spent their youth as part of the Jewish resort thoughts and beliefs. The authors demonstrate that theory and culture. The anthology explores how vacationers, resort owners, human life are dialectically interconnected: what research can and workers dealt with a horrific contradiction: the pleasure of reveal about a man can also provide a better understanding of their summer haven in contrast to the mass extermination of the very nature of his theory. This book is a valuable resource Jews throughout Europe. This book also examines the character for psychologists, sociologists, and students interested in the of Holocaust survivors in the Catskills, exploring the ways they sociocultural formation of mind. found connection, resolution to conflict, and avenues to come Bella S. Kotik‑Friedgut (PhD, Moscow State University) together despite their experiences that set them apart. is a professor of psychology at D. Yellin Academic College Holli Levitsky is Professor of English and founder and director of Education in Jerusalem. She served as the editor of the of the Loyola Marymount University Jewish Studies Program. translation from Russian to Hebrew of Vygotsky’s seminal The author of The Literature of Exile and Displacement: American work Language and Thought. Among her most recent Identity in a Time of Crisis, she held the 2001–2002 Fulbright publications includes “Cultural‑historical Theory and Cultural Distinguished Chair in American Literature in Warsaw, Poland. Neuropsychology Today” in The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural‑Historical Psychology (2014). Phil Brown is a University Distinguished Professor of Sociology Antonella Castelnuovo (PhD, London University) teaches and Health Sciences and the director of the Social Science Intercultural Communication at Siena University, and presently Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern is teaching Linguistic and Cultural Mediation at the University La University. He is the founder and president of the Catskills Sapienza, Rome. Her recent publications include Giochi di ruolo Institute, author of Catskill Culture: A Mountain Rat’s Memory of e formazione interculturale (2007) and A Sociocultural Study of the Great Jewish Resort Area, and editor of In the Catskills. Intercultural Discourse: Empirical Research on Italian Adolescent Pupils (forthcoming).

JEWISH STUDIES 11 SLAVIC STUDIES Before They Were Titans: Essays in Russian Social and Essays on the Early Works of Economic History Dostoevsky and Tolstoy Steven L. Hoch Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen with an Afterword by Caryl Emerson

Series: Ars Rossica Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History April 2015 | $79.00 | 352 pp. | 9781618114303 | Hardback February 2015 | $79.00 | Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the Titans 330 pp.; 46 tables; 19 illus. | of Russian literature. As mature artists, 9781618114280 | Hardback they led very different lives and wrote From banking crises and infectious vastly different works, but their early diseases to peasant rituals and land lives and writings display provocative reform, Steven L. Hoch examines kinships, while also indicating the the life of Russia’s rural population. divergent paths the two authors would In contrast to longstanding take en route to literary greatness. The interpretations of the Russian ten new critical essays here, plus an peasantry, Hoch emphasizes the role of afterword by Caryl Emerson, written by leading specialists in social, epidemiological, and ecological forces in the formation nineteenth-century Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated of rural Russian society. Drawing from sources little used by readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of previous scholars, he assesses the impact of the broad economy each Russian author—for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, on shaping the government policies of emancipation and land the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of reform, and the long-term consequences of these policies on these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the peasant material well-being. same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans. Steven L. Hoch studied at Princeton University, the Institut national d’études démographiques, Moscow State University, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (PhD Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Helsinki University. He is the author of Serfdom and Social Yale University), has taught at Bryn Mawr College as Professor Control in Russia (1986), which has been translated into Russian. of Russian and Comparative Literature since 1991. She is the In addition, he translated and edited from the French Metodika author of Beyond Realism: Turgenev’s Poetics of Secular Salvation analiza v istoricheskoi demographii (Russian State Humanities (Stanford UP, 1992) and A Fallen Idol is Still a God: Lermontov and University Press, 1977). He is the author of several articles on the Quandaries of Cultural Transition (Stanford UP, 2007). Russian demographic, social, and economic history. Contributors: Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (Bryn Mawr College), Lewis Bagby (University of Wyoming), Caryl Emerson (Princeton University), Susanne Fusso (Wesleyan University), Liza Knapp (Columbia University), Anne Lounsbery (New York University), Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis University), Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern University), Dale E. Peterson (Amherst College), William Mills Todd III (Harvard University), Ilya Vinitsky (University of Pennsylvania), Justin Weir (Harvard University)

SLAVIC STUDIES 12 First Words: From the Bible to Shakespeare: On Dostoevsky’s Introductions Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Lewis Bagby Formation of Literary Ukrainian Andrii Danylenko

Series: The Unknown Nineteenth Century Series: Ukrainian Studies January 2016 | $79.00 | approx. 230 pp. | February 2016 | $89.00 | approx. 300 pp. | 9781618114822 | Hardback 9781618114709 | Hardback Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging This is the first English-language study of the translations narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes of the Bible and Shakespeare into vernacular Ukrainian by from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97), a true Ukrainian maverick in the Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever attempts to call his readers’ national revival of his country and a precursor of the modern attention to these introductions, they have been neglected understanding of Ukrainian literature. In this study, Kuliš’s as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is translations are discussed in tandem with the time and people rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky’s engaged in their assessment. As a result, the Ukrainian Bible and introductions. Using Genette’s typology of prefaces and Shakespeare prove crucial to tracing the contours of a full and Bakhtin’s notion of multiple voices, Lewis Bagby reveals just complete picture of the development of literary Ukrainian in the how important Dostoevsky’s first words are to his fiction. two historical parts of Ukraine—Galicia and Dnieper Ukraine— Dostoevsky’s ruses, verbal winks, and backward glances indicate from the mid-nineteenth century onward. a lively and imaginative author at earnest play in the field of Andrii Danylenko is Professor at Pace University in New York. literary discourse. He is the editor and author of several books on Slavic linguistics Lewis Bagby, Professor Emeritus of Russian, The University and philology as well as dozens of studies on a wide array of of Wyoming, is the author of Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky topics ranging from Indo-European to the Polish-Lithuanian and Russian Byronism and editor of A Hero of Our Times: Critical Commonwealth to standard Ukrainian. Articles. He has published widely on Russian Romanticism, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Bakhtin. Academic Studies Press is pleased to publish From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of Academic Studies Press is pleased to publish First Words: On Literary Ukrainian as the first volume in its “Ukrainian Studies” Dostoevsky's Introductions as the first volume in it series “The series. Unknown Nineteenth Century.” This series publishes scholarly monographs and edited multi-authored This series focuses on the discovery of new literary facts in the history volumes in Ukrainian studies with a strong emphasis in the humanities, of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Each book brings to light including literature, film and media studies, gender studies, history, unknown texts and authors, unknown historical materials, unknown intellectual history, cultural studies, art history, the performing arts, literary-historical trends, unknown formal features, etc. The scope of the folklore, and musicology. It welcomes both traditional approaches series is broad chronologically: our nineteenth century stretches from and methodologies, as well as new and innovative frameworks that Karamzin to Bunin and beyond. It is no less broad methodologically, experiment with scholarly forms to meet the demands and richness of and embraces a range of approaches from the philological to the 21st-century Ukrainian studies. This series also publishes translations sociological. Yet, the same thing can be said of every book in this of the best Ukrainian poetry and prose previously not available in series. Rather than reinterpret the well-known, these books provide English. Carving out new arenas in Ukrainian studies and developing new material for new interpretations and narratives and force us to and improving existing ones, this series publishes works that will be reexamine old ones. essential to scholars and students of Ukrainian studies for years to come. Series Editor: Joe Peschio (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Series Editor: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas)

SLAVIC STUDIES 13 From the Cincinnati Reds to Late and Post-Soviet the Moscow Reds: Russian Literature: The Memoirs of Irwin Weil A Reader, Book 2 Irwin Weil Edited by Mark Lipovetsky and Compiled and Edited by Tony Brown Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya Series: Cultural Syllabus Jews of Russia and Eastern Series:  November 2015 | $79.00 | approx. Europe and Their Legacy 614 pp. | 9781618114327 | Hardback May 2015 | $49.00 | 244 pp.; 25 November 2015 | $49.00 | approx. illus. | 9781618113948 | Hardback 614 pp. | 9781618114341 | Paperback This book brings together a lifetime of Volume II of Late and Post-Soviet experiences told by a beloved member Russian Literature: A Reader features the of the field of Slavic languages and literature of the Thaw and Stagnation literature—Irwin Weil. During the periods (1954–1986). It includes Soviet era, Irwin frequently visited translations of poetry and prose, as and corresponded with outstanding well as of scholarly texts. The goal of Russian cultural figures. His deep love this volume is to present the range of the Russian people and their culture of ideas, creative experiments, and formal innovations that has touched the lives of countless students, in particular at accompanied the social and political changes of the late Soviet Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1966. These era. Together with the introductory essays and biographical stories of an unassuming Jewish American from Cincinnati, Ohio notes, the texts collected here will engage students and who rubbed shoulders with prominent thinkers, writers, and interested readers of late Soviet Russian literature. musicians in the Soviet Union are presented for the first time in Mark Lipovetsky is Professor of Russian Studies in the Department this volume. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 100 articles, Irwin Weil was born in 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio into a family of 8 books, and co-editor of 9 volumes on Russian literature and culture. German Jewish and Lithuanian Jewish descent. After receiving His works were nominated for the Russian Little Booker Prize (1997) a PhD in Slavic Studies from Harvard University in 1960, Weil and short-listed for the Andrey Bely Prize (2008). In 2014, he received taught at Brandeis University and then moved to Northwestern the AATSEEL award for outstanding contribution to scholarship. University where he has taught since 1966. Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya is Associate Professor of Slavic in the Tony Brown is a Professor of Russian at Brigham Young Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Courtesy University and holds MA and PhD degrees in Russian and Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. She has Second Language Acquisition from Bryn Mawr College. He has published numerous articles on literary exile and repatriation, post- written extensively in the areas of second language acquisition, Soviet culture, and transnational writing, and is the author of Locating language policy, and the cultural history of Russia. Exiled Writers in Contemporary Russian Literature: Exiles at Home.

Also Available Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader, Book 1 Edited by Mark Lipovetsky and Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya June 2014 | $69.00 | 9781936235407 | 384 pp. | Hardback June 2014 | $49.00 | 9781618113832 | 384 pp. | Paperback

SLAVIC STUDIES 14 “Our Native Antiquity”: Petersburg Winters and Archaeology and Aesthetics Disintegration of the Atom Georgy Ivanov in the Culture of Russian Translated by Jerome Katsell and Stanislav Shvabrin Modernism Michael Kunichika

Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Series: Cultural Revolutions: Literatures, Cultures, and Russia in the Twentieth Century History April 2016 | $39.00 | approx. 200 pp. | October 2015 | $75.00 | 9781618114549 | Hardback approx. 336 pp.; 30 illus. | This book presents translations of two celebrated works 9781618114419 | Hardback by Georgy Ivanov. Petersburg Winters (1928) is a portrait of For Russian modernists in search of a Petersburg swept up in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and past, there were many antiquities of Revolutionary Russia. The spirit of the city is conveyed through different provenance and of varying a series of vignettes of Ivanov’s contemporaries, including Blok, degrees of prestige from which to Akhmatova, Esenin, and Mandelstam. Disintegration of the choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium Atom (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian émigré despair or Egypt. The modernists central to on the eve of WWII—a cri de coeur that challenges prevailing “Our Native Antiquity” located their antiquity in the Eurasian concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged steppes, where they found objects and sites long denigrated wretchedness. as archaeological curiosities. The book follows the exemplary Jerome Katsell was born in Brooklyn and raised Liberty, NY careers of two objects—the so-called “Stone Women” and and Palo Alto, CA. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, and is an the kurgan, or burial mound—and the attention paid to them independent scholar and translator. by Russian and Soviet archaeologists, writers, artists, and filmmakers. These artifacts served as resources for modernist Stanislav Shvabrin teaches Russian language and literature at art and letters and as arenas for a contest between vying the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. conceptions of Russian art, culture, and history. Michael Kunichika teaches in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. He received his BA from Also of Interest: Reed College and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. 50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories Translated by Valentina Brougher, Mark Lipovetsky, and Frank Miller March 2011 | $69.00 | 792 pp. | 9781936235148 | Hardback March 2011 | $49.00 | 792 pp. | 9781936235223 | Paperback

SLAVIC STUDIES 15 Russian Silver Age Poetry: Terror and Pity: Texts and Contexts Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Edited and introduced by Power in Elizabethan Russia Sibelan E. S. Forrester and Martha M. F. Kelly Kirill Ospovat

Series: Cultural Syllabus Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History June 2015 | $79.00 | 618 pp. | April 2016 | $79.00 | approx. 400 pp. | 9781618114723 | 9781618113528 | Hardback Hardback June 2015 | $49.00 | 618 pp. | Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, 9781618113702 | Paperback political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity: Russian Silver Age writers were full Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan participants in European literary Russia offers an in-depth reading of early Russian tragedy as debates and movements. Today some a political genre. Imported to Russia by Aleksandr Sumarokov of these poets, such as Akhmatova, around 1750, tragedy reenacted and shaped the symbolic Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, economy and the often disturbing historical experience of and Tsvetaeva, are known around “absolutist” autocracy. Addressing half-forgotten texts and the world. This volume introduces events, this study engages with literary and cultural theory from Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and Walter Benjamin to Foucault and “new historicism” in order to the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult contribute to a broader discussion of early modern “poetics of references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence culture.” of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part Kirill Ospovat received his PhD from the Russian State of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough University for the Humanities (RGGU, Moscow) in 2005. He has introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the held various postdoctoral appointments in Russia, Germany, poets and selections of their work in translation—many of the UK, and the US, most recently in the ERC-funded research them translated especially for this volume—as well as critical group “Early modern drama and the cultural net” at the Freie and fictional texts (some by the poets themselves) that help Universität Berlin. establish the context and outline the lively discourse of the era and its indelible moral and artistic aftermath. Sibelan E. S. Forrester teaches Russian language and literature Also of Interest: and a regular translation workshop at Swarthmore College. She has published numerous articles on Russian poetry (especially Creating the Empress: Politics and Marina Tsvetaeva) and folklore. She also translates contemporary Poetry in the Age of Catherine II Russian poetry, most recently that of Maria Stepanova. She is Vera Proskurina co-editor of Engendering Slavic Literatures (Indiana UP, 1996, with Pamela Chester) and of Over the Wall/After the Fall (Indiana UP, January 2011 | $55.00 | 312 pp. | 2004, with Magdalena Zaborowska and Elena Gapova). 9781936235506 | Hardback Martha M. F. Kelly is Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press (Fall 2015). In this book she explores unorthodox relationships between poetry and religion in the early twentieth century in Russia. She has published articles on Russian modernist poetry, on Chekhov, and on Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago.

SLAVIC STUDIES 16 The Translator’s Doubts: Witness and Transformation: Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of The Poetics of Gennady Aygi Translation Sarah Valentine Julia Trubikhina

Series: Cultural Revolutions: Series: Liber Primus Russia in the Twentieth September 2015 | $55.00 | Century approx. 216 pp. | 9781618114433 | August 2015 | $79.00 | 252 pp. | Hardback 9781618112606 | Hardback This is the first full-length critical Using Vladimir Nabokov as its study of Chuvash-born poet Gennady “case study,” this book approaches Aygi (1934–2006), who is considered translation as a crucial avenue into the father of late-Soviet avant-garde literary history and theory, philosophy Russian poetry. The book charts the and interpretation. It attempts to development of Aygi’s poetics, which bring together issues in translation draws equally on Russian poetic and and the shift in Nabokov studies religious tradition, European literature from an earlier emphasis on the “metaliterary” to the more and philosophy, and Chuvash literature, folk culture, and recent “metaphysical” approach. Addressing specific texts cosmology. The chapters move chronologically through Aygi’s (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov’s life and work from the 1950s to his final work in the early 2000s, deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic concluding with an interview with American poet Fanny Howe oscillation between the relative stability of meaning, which about the importance of Aygi’s work in translation. The volume expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and places Aygi in the context of twentieth-century poetry of deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov’s practice of witness and reveals the global significance of his work. translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, Sarah Valentine received her PhD in Russian Literature from his adherence to the Romantic notion of a “true” but ultimately Princeton University in 2007. Her translations from the Russian, elusive metaphysical language remains paradoxically constant. Into the Snow: Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi, were published Julia Trubikhina received her PhD in Comparative Literature by Wave Books in 2011. She teaches English and Comparative with a specialization in Slavic studies from New York University. Literature at Northwestern University. She teaches in the Department of Classics and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, where she is currently Visiting Academic Studies Press is pleased to publish Witness and Associate Professor of Russian in the Division of Russian and Transformation: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi as the first book in the Slavic Studies. series “Liber Primus.” This series is designed for authors early in their careers, in many cases Also of Interest: assistant professors coming up for tenure. A primary goal of the series is to create an outlet for outstanding academic books in our field at a The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac time when university presses, forced to focus on “bottom lines” and trim their lists accordingly, are increasingly unlikely, regardless of the project, Edited by Yuri Leving to take on proposals from untested, younger, less published scholars December 2010 | $39.00 | 348 pp.; 30 illus. | in our field. The series does not promote any specific scholarly-critical methodology, nor does it limit itself to any period, genre, or author 9781936235193 | Hardback grouping in Russian/Slavic literature/culture. Primary criteria will be quality of the research, conceptual robustness, clarity of thought, and elegance of style.

SLAVIC STUDIES 17 Word and Image in Russian Academic Studies Press is pleased to be accepting book proposals for a number of exciting new series, History: including: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker Edited by Maria di Salvo, Daniel H. Kaiser, and Film and Media Studies Valerie A. Kivelson Series Editors: Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova (College of William and Mary)

July 2015 | $79.00 | 416 pp.; 34 illus. | 9781618114587 | Hardback Liber Primus Word and Image invokes and honors Series Editor: David Bethea the scholarly contributions of Gary (University of Wisconsin – Madison) Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the Lithuanian Studies main themes of Marker’s scholarship on Russia—literacy, education, and Series Editor: Darius Staliunas printing; gender and politics; the (Lithuanian Institute of History) importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse Polish Studies in Imperial Russia. A biography of Marker, a survey of his Series Editor: Halina Filipowicz scholarship, and a list of his publications complete the volume. (University of Wisconsin – Madison) Maria Di Salvo is Professor of Slavic Philology at Milan State University. Daniel H. Kaiser is Professor of History Emeritus at Grinnell Ukrainian Studies College. Series Editor: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas) Valerie Kivelson is Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The Unknown Nineteenth Century Contributors: Series Editor: Joe Peschio Valerie Kivelson (University of Michigan), Giovanna Brogi (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) (University of Milan), Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa), Elena Smilianskaia (Moscow), Daniela Steila (University of Turin), Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University), Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College), Maria di Salvo (University of Milan), Cynthia Whittaker (City University of New York), Simon Dixon (University of London), Evgenii Anisimov (St. Petersburg), Alexander Kamenskii (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Janet Hartley (London School of Economics), Olga Kosheleva (Moscow State University), Maksim Yaremenko (Kyiv), Patrick O’Meara (University of Durham), Roger Bartlett (London), Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa), Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College)

SLAVIC STUDIES 18 TOURO COLLEGE PRESS Contention, Controversy, Intellectual Journeys of and Change: Recent, Mostly “Defunct” Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Economists Experience, Volumes I and II Lall Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg Edited by Eric Levine and Simcha Fishbane

Vol I: December 2015 | $89.00 | approx. 360 pp. | November 2015 | $79.00 | approx. 350 pp. | 9781618114624 | Hardback 9781618114662 | Hardback Vol II: December 2015 | $89.00 | approx. 300 pp. | This book looks into the creative minds of some recent, mostly 9781618114648 | Hardback “defunct” economists. Many of the authors, such as Samuelson, Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality Friedman, Galbraith, and Heilbroner, have penned popular and of the Jewish historical experience. This collection presents works, while their scientific contributions were limited to the the work of a distinguished group of scholars exploring the most specialized scholars. Others, such as Nobel Prize winners themes of social, political, religious, intellectual, and institutional Modigliani, Debreu, Becker, Aumann, and Allais, delved into movements and change in Jewish history. These scholars complex issues in human organization, economic growth demonstrate that social change throughout Jewish life has and planning, socio-economic theory, and model building. assumed many different manifestations, and can occur in Economists such as Keynes and Lowe represent world-class revolutionary and dramatic ways as well as in more common paragons whose influences continue to percolate in current gradual and evolutionary processes. In the first volume, the essays research programs. Here we unearth their best scientific work, revolve around two themes: “Mobilizations and Contentious revealing gems that might otherwise be overlooked. Politics,” and “Social Trends, Communal and Institutional Change.” Michael Szenberg is Distinguished Professor and Chair of The second volume is devoted to “Developments in Philosophy, Business and Economics at Touro College. A recipient of many Ideology, and Religious Practice.” Taken together, these two national and international teaching, service, and research volumes present scholarship rich with both historical and awards, he was editor-in-chief of The American Economist from contemporary relevance, of interest to academics and students 1973 to 2011. in Jewish studies and the social sciences, communal leaders and policy makers, and anyone intrigued by the Jewish experience. Lall Ramrattan is an economist at UC Berkeley, Extension. He holds a PhD from the New School for Social Research. Lall and Eric Levine (DSW, Yeshiva University, 1994) is Director of Social Michael have collaborated for over 15 years, publishing more Work Alumni Engagement and a faculty member at the Touro than 20 books and dozens of articles and research projects. College Graduate School of Social Work. He has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, has authored some 60 publications, and is co-editor of the Social Work Forum. His current research focuses on social policy, contentious politics, Also of Interest: and social change. At the Intersection of Education, Simcha Fishbane (PhD, Social Anthropology of Religion, Marketing, and Transformation Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 1988) is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Touro College. Sabra Brock He has published extensively on Jewish subjects and texts. His October 2013 | $45.00 | 162 pp.; 27 tables; publications include The Method and Meaning of the Mishnah Berurah (1991) and The Shtiebelization of Modern Jewry (2011). 2 illus. | 9781618113122 | Hardback

TOURO COLLEGE PRESS 19 Paleontology and Geology of Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s the Martinsburg, Shawangunk, Commentary on Onondaga, and Hornerstown Books 3–5 of Psalms: Formations (Northeastern United Chapters 73–150 States) with Some Field Guides Translated by Norman Strickman Howard R. Feldman February 2016 | $89.00 | approx. 500 pp. | 9781618114686 | Hardback September 2015 | $79.00 | 500 pp.; 104 tables; 108 illus. | Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s commentary is one of the great 9781618114167 | Hardback biblical exegeses produced by medieval Jewry. His commentary accompanies almost every version of the Rabbinic Bible, and This book, for the first time in one his influence on biblical studies continues to this very day. Ibn volume, describes the paleontology Ezra sought to provide the literal meaning of the biblical text. and geology of four very well-known However, he did more than that. His commentary is saturated rock formations in the northeastern with insights into Hebrew grammar, medieval philosophy, and United States. It includes discussions astrology. Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Books 3–5 on the Middle Silurian Shawangunk of Psalms: Chapters 73–150 completes the publication of the Conglomerate that extends from translation and annotation of Ibn Ezra’s commentary to Psalms, New York as far south as Virginia, making it available to both scholars and general readers. and the underlying Late Ordovician Martinsburg Shale that was deposited during the Taconic H. Norman Strickman is Rabbi emeritus of the Marine Park orogeny. The brachiopod fauna of the Onondaga Limestone is Jewish Center in Brooklyn and Professor emeritus of Jewish revised. Finally, the paleoecology of the Oleneothyris biostrome Studies at Touro College in New York City. He is the recipient of from the Hornerstown Formation in New Jersey is discussed. the Histadrut Ha-Ivrit prize in Hebrew Literature. Field guides to the Shawangunk and Onondaga formations are included, providing a valuable resource for professionals and students. Also from this Author: Howard B. Feldman is a professor in the Biology Department Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary at Touro College in New York City and a Research Associate in on the First Book of Psalms: the Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates) at the American Museum of Natural History. He has received numerous grants Chapters 1–41 for his work on Paleozoic and Mesozoic brachiopods and has Translated by Norman Strickman over 150 publications. June 2009 | $48.00 | 326 pp. | 9781934843307 | Hardback Also from this Author: Invertebrate Paleontology (Mesozoic) Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary of Israel and Adjacent Countries with on the Second Book of Psalms: Emphasis on the Brachiopoda Chapters 42–72 Howard R. Feldman Translated by Norman Strickman December 2013 | $65.00 | 336 pp.; 58 tables; June 2009 | $48.00 | 214 pp. | 103 illus. | 9781618113054 | Hardback 9781934843314 | Hardback

TOURO COLLEGE PRESS 20 FEATURED 2014 TITLES Belomor: Carnival in Tel Aviv: Criminality and Creativity in Purim and the Celebration of Stalin’s Gulag Urban Zionism Julie S. Draskoczy Hizky Shoham

Series: Myths and Taboos in Russian Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and Culture History January 2014 | $69.00 | 252 pp.; March 2014 | $59.00 | 252 pp. | 40 illus. | 9781618112880 | 9781618113511 | Hardback Hardback The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations Containing analyses of everything were the largest public events in from prisoner poetry to album covers, British Palestine, and they played a key Belomor: Criminality and Creativity role in the development of the urban in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the Jewish experience in the Promised simplistic good/evil paradigm that Land. Carnival in Tel Aviv presents a often accompanies Gulag scholarship. historical-anthropological analysis of While acknowledging the normative this mass public event and explores power of Stalinism—an ethos so hegemonic it wanted to the ethnographic dimension of Zionism. This study sheds new harness the very mechanisms of inspiration—the volume also light on the ideological world of urban Zionism, the capitalistic recognizes the various loopholes offered by artistic expression. aspects of Zionist culture, and the urban nature of the Zionist Perhaps the most infamous project of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan, project, which sought to create a nation of warriors and farmers, the Belomor construction was riddled by paradox, above all but in fact nationalized the urban space and constructed it as its the fact that it created a major waterway that was too shallow main public sphere. for large crafts. Even more significant, and sinister, is that the Hizky Shoham is a cultural historian of Israel and Zionism. He is project won the backing of famous creative luminaries who a research fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem enthusiastically professed the doctrine of self-fashioning. and a senior lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Belomor complicates our understanding of the Gulag by looking Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. at both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, thereby offering an expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism. Julie S. Draskoczy has taught Russian history and culture at the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, and Patten University in San Quentin prison. She was named an Andrew W. Mellon Scholar of the Humanities at Stanford University, and has studied in Russia as a Fulbright-Hays recipient. She is the author of many articles and reviews, and has edited numerous projects including The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe and Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

FEATURED 2014 TITLES 21 The Israeli Nation-State: Literature, Exile, Alterity: Political, Constitutional, and The New York Group of Cultural Challenges Ukrainian Poets Edited by Fania Oz-Salzberger and Maria G. Rewakowicz Yedidia Z. Stern

Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic History Literatures, Cultures and History June 2014 | $64.00 | 386 pp. | 9781618113894 | Hardback August 2014 | $59.00 | 276 pp. | December 2014 | $34.00 | 386 pp. | 9781618114037 | Hardback 9781618113924 | Paperback Originating in the mid-1950s, the New This volume of original essays by some York Group of Ukrainian poets greatly of Israel’s most remarkable public and contributed to the modernization academic voices offers a series of state- of Ukrainian postwar literature. This of-the art, accessible analyses of Israel’s pioneering study touches on many ever-evolving theater of statecraft, different aspects of the group’s public debates, and legal and cultural artistic achievements—discursive, dramas, its deep divisions and—more surprisingly, perhaps—its aesthetic, thematic, and historical—and discusses various internal affinities and common denominators. ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections with their country of origin and their Contributors: Fania Oz-Salzberger, Yedidia Z. Stern, Ayman K. adopted homelands, underscoring their role in the shaping Agbaria, Aviad Bakshi, Ariel L. Bendor, Ruth Gavison, Michael M. of the cultural image of Ukraine abroad. This book will appeal Karayanni, David Passig, Avi Sagi, Gideon Sapir, Anita Shapira, to those eager to explore East European poetry and to those Daniel Statman, Gadi Taub, Shira Wolosky, Alexander Yakobson, interested in larger contexts for the development of European Yaffa Zilbershats. modernisms. Fania Oz-Salzberger (DPhil Oxford University) is professor Maria G. Rewakowicz, PhD is affiliated with the Slavic of history at the University of Haifa Center for German and Department at the University of Washington where she has European Studies and Faculty of Law, where she directs the taught Ukrainian literature. She is the author of a book of essays Posen Research Forum for Political Thought. Among her books Persona Non Grata, and co-editor of Contemporary Ukraine on are Translating the Enlightenment (1995), Israelis in Berlin (2001), the Cultural Map of Europe (2009). and Jews and Words, co-authored with Amos Oz (2012). Yedidia Z. Stern (SJD Harvard University) is the Vice President of Research at Israel Democracy Institute, where he heads the projects on “Religion and State” and “Human Rights and Judaism.” He is a full professor at Bar-Ilan University Law School, and is also the the author and editor of twenty books in his areas of professional interest.

FEATURED 2014 TITLES 22 The Middle Way: Poetry and Psychiatry: The Emergence of Modern-Religious Trends Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian in Nineteenth-Century Judaism—Responses Symbolist Culture to Modernity in the Philosophy of Z. H. Magnus Ljunggren Chajes, S. R. Hirsch, and S. D. Luzzatto, Translated by Charles Rougle Volumes I and II Ephraim Chamiel Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Edited by Asael Abelman Literatures, Cultures and History Translated by Jeffrey Green November 2014 | $45.00 | 156 pp.; Series: Studies in Orthodox Judaism 44 illus. | 9781618113504 | Hardback Vol I: December 2014 | $89.00 | 534 pp. | 9781618114075 | November 2014 | $27.00 | 156 pp.; Hardback 44 illus. | 9781618113696 | Paperback Vol II: December 2014 | $89.00 | 420 pp. | 9781618114082 | A century ago the Symbolists in Hardback Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of This book in two volumes is devoted to life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these examining the first encounter between poets, philosophers, and mystics sensed that tsardom was on traditional Judaism and modern the threshold of an apocalyptic upheaval. They were influenced European culture, and the first modern by Vladimir Solovyov and Friedrich Nietzsche, but under the thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with science, impact of the 1905 Revolution they later also subscribed to revelation with reason, Jewish ethics with European culture, and current radical political ideas. The eventual collision between universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews. These these dreams and tsarist reality generated enormous religious thinkers of the nineteenth century struggled with intellectual turbulence and the need for substitutes. Not least challenges of the modern age that continue to confront modern psychoanalysis came to the rescue of these stranded dreamers. Jews to this day. This objective work of scholarship will be of The present collection of essays is intended for readers interest to the modern thinker and to scholars of the history interested in Russian literature or the early history of Eastern of religions. It is relevant to the comparative study of Judaism European offshoots of psychoanalysis. with the various denominations of Christianity and other faiths, Magnus Ljunggren defended his doctoral thesis The Dream of which seeks to find a middle way between their traditions and Rebirth. A Study of Andrej Belyj’s novel ‘Peterburg’ at Stockholm modernity. University in 1982. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Russian Ephraim Chamiel earned his BA in economics and political Language and Literature at the University of Gothenburg. His science, and a diploma in business administration from the most important monograph is The Russian Mephisto (1994). Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked in various executive positions for Bank Leumi, and later returned to the university to study Jewish thought. He defended his dissertation in 2006 under the guidance of Professor S. Rosenberg and Dr. M. Silber. Presently, he conducts research and teaches in the field of modern Jewish thought. His second book, Ladaat Torah—a modern reading of the Pentateuch—was published in 2013 in Israel (Hebrew).

FEATURED 2014 TITLES 23 On Personal and Public Also from this Author: Concerns: The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture Essays in Jewish Philosophy Eliezer Schweid; Translated by Leonard Levin Eliezer Schweid Translated and Edited by Leonard Levin July 2008 | $60.00 | 316 pp. | 9781934843055 | Hardback

Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History The Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation of Jewish Culture: November 2014 | $59.00 | 240 pp. Philosophy of Biblical Narrative 9781618114457 | Hardback Eliezer Schweid; Translated by Leonard Levin Eliezer Schweid’s career as philosopher, scholar, educator, and public January 2009 | $50.00 | 228 pp. | intellectual has spanned the history 9781934843000 | Hardback of the State of Israel from the prewar Yishuv period to the present. In these essays, he recalls his formative years The Philosophy of the Bible in the Zionist youth and the Hebrew as Foundation of the Jewish Culture: University. He reflects on the existential Philosophy of Biblical Law loneliness of the modern Jew. He examines the perennial problem of theodicy through a Jewish lens in its broadest Eliezer Schweid; Translated by Leonard Levin human parameters. Finally, he offers a challenging critique of January 2009 | $50.00 | 232 pp. | the postmodern culture of the “global village,” in which the 9781934843017 | Hardback marketplace and skepticism have crowded out humane values rooted in the traditions of historical culture. Eliezer Schweid is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University. He has published forty books in general and specific areas of Jewish thought of all periods, and has commented frequently on the relevance of the legacy of Jewish thought to contemporary issues of Jewish and universal human concern. He is the recipient of the distinguished Israel Prize and two honorary doctorates. Leonard Levin teaches Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York.

FEATURED 2014 TITLES 24 Palestine in Turmoil: Soviet Jews in World War II: The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933–1939, Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering Volumes I and II Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Harriet Murav Monty Noam Penkower

Series: Touro College Press Vol I: Series: Borderlines: Russian and April 2014 | $59.00 | 348 pp. | East-European Jewish Studies 9781618113153 | Hardback April 2014 | $39.00 | 348 pp. | April 2014 | $69.00 | 270 pp. | 9781618113672 | Paperback 9781618113139 | Hardback Vol II: This volume discusses the participation April 2014 | $59.00 | 408 pp. | of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and 9781618113177 | Hardback propagandists in combating the Nazis April 2014 | $39.00 | 408 pp. | during the Great Patriotic War, as the period between June 22, 1941, and 9781618113689 | Paperback May 9, 1945 was known in the Soviet This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict Union. The essays included here between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly examine both newly-discovered and in the pivotal years 1933–1939, and which proved to be an previously-neglected oral testimony, poetry, cinema, diaries, irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused memoirs, newspapers, and archives. This is one of the first to accept minority status. A compelling narrative, lucidly written books to combine the study of Russian and Yiddish materials, and rooted in extensive archival sources, explores the deadly reflecting the nature of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, clash of two rival nationalisms against the broader backdrop of which, for the first time during the Soviet period, included both rising antisemitism across Europe, the intervention of Arab states, Yiddish-language and Russian-language writers. This volume and international realpolitik. The two volumes, one devoted to will be of use to scholars, teachers, students, and researchers the years 1933–1936 and the second to the years 1937–1939, working in Russian and Jewish history. serve as a riveting prequel to Penkower’s Decision on Palestine Gennady Estraikh is associate professor of Yiddish studies Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939–1945. in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus at the Machon New York University. He is the author of Yiddish in the Cold War Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. His (2008), In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism numerous publications include The Jews Were Expendable: Free (2004), and Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic World Diplomacy and the Holocaust; The Holocaust and Israel Development (1999). Reborn; Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Harriet Murav is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Wartime Diplomacy, 1939–1945; Twentieth Century Jews: Forging and Comparative and World Literature at the University of Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land; and The Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hey studies of Dostoevsky, Swastika’s Darkening Shadow: Voices from Before the Holocaust. Russian law and literature, and twentieth-century Russian and Yiddish literature are complemented by her most recent Also from this Author: monograph, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Twentieth-Century Jews: Post-Revolution Russia (2011). Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land Monty Noam Penkower September 2010 | $65.00 | 420 pp. | 9781936235209 | Hardback

FEATURED 2014 TITLES 25 The Witching Hour and Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Other Plays Texts of Exploration: Nina Sadur Collected Articles on the Representation of Edited by Nadya L. Peterson Russian Monarchy With an introduction by Mark Lipovetsky and an Richard Wortman afterword by Karin Sarsenov

August 2014 | $39.00 | 204 pp. | Series: Imperial Encounters in 9781618113986 | Hardback Russian History August 2014 | $27.00 | 204 pp. | March 2014 | $84.00 | 468 pp. | 9781618113993 | Paperback 9781618113474 | Hardback Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/ The articles in this volume describe Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s the author’s encounter with texts and 1990s, a group that has, with few that conveyed goals and ideals exceptions, been generally ignored that Russian monarchs sought to by the Western literary establishment. elevate before the elite of the empire The plays included in this volume and later to the public at large. offer some of Sadur’s most influential The texts include descriptions and theatrical works to the English- depictions of ceremonies such as speaking audience for the first time. Sadur’s plays are inspired coronations, triumphal entries, and historical celebrations, art by symbolist drama, the theater of the absurd, and Russian meant to demonstrate the monarchs’ national roots, operatic folklore, yet are also infused with contemporary reality and evocations of the past, examples of a distinctive Russian church populated by contemporary characters. Her work is overtly architecture, and lubki. Analyses of explorers’ accounts and gynocentric: the fictional world construes women’s traditionally social thought round out a book that highlights the use of texts downplayed concerns as narratively and existentially central as windows into the political culture of imperial Russia. and crucial. Sadur’s drama has exerted a tremendous influence Richard Wortman is James Bryce Professor of History Emeritus on contemporary Russian literature. Working essentially in at Columbia University. His prize-winning two-volume study, isolation, Sadur was able to combine early twentieth-century Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, dramatic discourse with that of the late Soviet era, setting the Princeton University Press, (1995-2000), is devoted to the role stage for the rise of the new Russian drama of the 2000s. The of imagery and representation in the exercise of monarchical collection will appeal to readers interested in Russian literature power in Russia. and culture, Russian theater, as well as women’s literature. Born in Riga, Latvia, Nadya L. Peterson was educated in Moscow, Russia, and received her PhD in Russian literature from Also from this Author: Indiana University. She is currently an associate professor of

Russian at Hunter College of the City University of New York, Russian Monarchy: and the head of the Russian and Slavic Studies Program at Representation and Rule Hunter. She is the author of Subversive Imaginations: Fantastic Richard Wortman Prose and the End of Soviet Literature, 1970s–1990s, as well as a published translator and editor, most recently of Russian Love September 2013 | $69.00 | 360 pp. | Stories (Peter Lang, 2009). 9781618112583 | Hardback

FEATURED 2014 TITLES 26 AWARD WINNERS “I Am a Phenomenon Bieganski: Quite Out of the Ordinary”: The Brute Polack Stereotype in The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Polish-Jewish Relations and American Daniil Kharms Popular Culture Selected, translated and Danusha Goska edited by Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto Series: Jews of Poland Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia July 2010 | $65.00 | 344 pp. | in the Twentieth Century 9781936235155 | Hardback February 2013 | $69.00 | 588 pp. | Winner of the 2010 Halecki Award 9781936235964 | Hardback for Outstanding Book on the Polish September 2013 | $35.00 | 588 pp. | Experience in America 9781618113726 | Paperback In this study, Goska exposes one Winner of the AATSEEL 2014 Book stereotype of Poles and other Awards Best Literary Translation into Eastern Europeans. In the “Bieganski” English stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, A founder of Russia’s “lost literature of violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and the absurd,” Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not. kept diaries and notebooks throughout most of his adult Their special hatefulness is epitomized by Polish anti-Semitism. life. Published only recently in Russian, they illuminate the Bieganski discovers this stereotype in the mainstream press, in life and creative process of one of the most distinctive and scholarship and film, in Jews’ self-definition, and in responses to enigmatic figures of the literary and cultural avant-garde of the Holocaust. Bieganski’s twin is Shylock, the stereotype of the post-Revolutionary Leningrad. The documents translated for crafty, physically inadequate, moneyed Jew. The final chapters this edition (most for the first time), are an invaluable source for of the book are devoted to interviews with American Jews, English-language readers who wish to delve more deeply into which reveal that Bieganski—and Shylock—are both alive and the life, loves, and mind of a brilliant, quirky, and profoundly well among those who have little knowledge of Poles or Poland. unconventional writer working during the first crucial decades of Soviet power. Danusha Goska (PhD Indiana University, Bloomington) is an experienced teacher and award-winning writer of numerous Anthony Anemone (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is articles, essays, and fiction in Polish Studies. associate professor of Russian language and literature at The New School. He is the author of numerous articles on modern Russian literature and cinema, and the editor of Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia (Northwestern UP, 2010). Peter Scotto (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is professor of Russian language and literature at Mount Holyoke College. He has published many articles on Russian poetry and prose, and his translation of Aleksandr Blok’s “The Twelve” appeared in the St. Petersburg Review in 2012.

AWARD WINNERS 27 Development, Learning and Hating the Jews: Community: The Rise of Antisemitism in the Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish 21st Century High Schools Gregg Rickman Jeffrey Kress

Series: Judaism and Jewish Life Series: Antisemitism in America May 2012 | $69.00 | 216 pp. | November 2012 | $49.00 | 186 pp. | 9781936235308 | Hardback 9781936235254 | Hardback October 2013 | $33.00 | 216 pp. | Winner of the Best Book of 2012 by 9781618112941 | Paperback the British Journal for the Study of Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Anti-Semitism Book Award for Education and Jewish With attacks by Muslims against Jews Identity in Western Europe reaching all-time Development, Learning, and highs, Jews are now facing levels of Community uses data drawn from genocidal antisemitism not seen since a study of pluralistic Jewish high WWII. Muslims committing attacks schools to illustrate the complex on Jews seek to substitute their own and often challenging interplay between the cognitive claims of victimhood for the Jews’ plight, defining themselves as and socio-affective elements of education. Throughout the the “new Jews.” Their demands for recognition are accompanied book, Kress grapples with questions such as: How can the by acts of public disobedience, violent street protests, and petty balance between community cohesion and group differences crime. The Arab-Israeli struggle has been brought to Europe be achieved in diverse settings? What are the educational and extended to cover a hatred of Europe’s Jews as well as implications of an approach to identity development rooted those resident in Israel. Gregg Rickman, the United States’ first in contemporary developmental theories that posit the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, provides interaction among cognition, affect, and behavior? How can this first-person account and in-depth examination of the rise of the formal and informal offerings of a school coalesce to antisemitism in the twenty-first century. address these broadly conceived identity outcomes, and what Gregg Rickman (PhD University of Miami) was the first US are the challenges in doing so? Winner of the National Jewish Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, serving Book Award in Jewish Education, Development Learning and from 2006–2009. He has traveled to twenty-eight nations on Community offers a comprehensive and critical assessment of behalf of the victims of antisemitism and is the author of two Jewish education today. books on Holocaust-era restitution. Jeffrey Kress is Associate Professor of Jewish Education and academic director of the Experiential Learning Initiative at the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His interests include developmental issues in Jewish education, research methods, and social, emotional, and spiritual elements of Jewish educational contexts.

AWARD WINNERS 28 My Four Years in A Philosophy of Havruta: Soviet Russia Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Yitzhak Erlichson Study in Pairs Translated by Maurice Wolfthal Elie Holzer with Orit Kent

Series: Jews of Poland Series: Jewish Identity in Post- Modern Society June 2013 | $59.00 | 198 pp. | 9781618112545 | Hardback November 2013 | $49.00 | 264 pp. | Winner of the 2010–2013 Modern 9781618112903 | Hardback Language Association’s Fenia and March 2014 | $29.00 | 264 pp. | Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in 9781618113856 | Paperback Yiddish Studies Winner of the 2014 National Jewish This is the story of Yitzkhak Erlichson, a Book Award for Education and Jewish Polish Jew who was nineteen years old Identity when he escaped the Nazis by fleeing No longer confined to traditional to the USSR from his hometown, institutions devoted to Talmudic Wierzbnik. Arrested as an English spy, studies, havruta work—or the practice of students studying he was sent to prisons and slave-labor. He worked and traveled materials in pairs—has become a relatively widespread in the USSR after this release. To his dismay, he found injustice, phenomenon across denominational and educational settings inequality, and antisemitism equal to that of his native Poland. of Jewish learning. However, until now there has been little Attempting to join the Polish army forming in the USSR, he was discussion of what havruta text study entails and how it might told it was “only for Poles.” He met and married his wife, Fania, in be conceptualized and taught. This book breaks new ground the Soviet Union. They made their way back to Wierzbnik. There from two perspectives: by offering a model of havruta text study he learned that none of his family had survived the German situated in broader theories of interpretation and learning, occupation. and by treating havruta text study as composed of textual, Upon his return from the USSR, Erlichson began a new life in interpersonal and intra-personal practices that can be taught Poland and worked in the leather industry, having had some and learned. A Philosophy of Havruta lays out the conceptual training in that trade before the war. But antisemitism and foundations of this approach and provides examples of their communist repression impelled him to leave after a few years, pedagogical implementation for the teaching of havruta text and he made his way to Paris in 1947. He published this book study. Included are illustrative lesson plans, teachers’ notes there (under the pen-name Yitzkhak Edison), as well as Poyln and students’ reflections, exercises for students, and other nokh der bafrayung (Poland After Liberation) in 1956. He also instructional materials for teaching core concepts and practices. wrote for Yiddish newspapers in Paris, London, and New York. Elie Holzer is a practice-oriented philosopher of Jewish He left Paris in 1957, settled in Brooklyn, and wrote for the education. He serves as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Forverts. Education at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and has taught in Maurice Wolfthal, a retired teacher, grew up in a Yiddish- various academic and vocational institutions in both Israel and speaking home. Like Yitzhak Erlichson, his parents escaped the the United States. Nazis by fleeing to the USSR, and like Erlichson, they made their Orit Kent is a teacher, educator, and scholar of teaching and way to Paris after the war, and later from there to New York. learning in Jewish education. She co-designed the Beit Midrash Mr. Wolfthal is an independent scholar who has translated, for Teachers at Brandeis University, where she taught for over from the Yiddish, Nokhem Shtif’s Pogromen in ukrayne, Shmerke a decade. She is an affiliated scholar at the Jack, Joseph and Kaczerginski’s Khurbn vilne, and Bernard Weinstein’s Di yidishe Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. unions in amerike.

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Author Index

A F Kress, ffrey 28 Rebhun, Uzi 9 Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh 12 Feldman, Howard B. 20 Kunichika, Michael 15 Redlich, Shimon 6 Anemone, Anthony 27 Forrester, Sibelan E. S. 16 Reguer, Sara 8 Aron, Lewis 4 Friedberg, Albert D. 7 L Rewakowicz, Maria G. 22 Lederhendler, Eli 9 Rickman, Gregg 28 B G Levin, Leonard 24 Robinson, Ira 5 Bagby, Lewis 13 Goska, Danusha 27 Levine, Eric 19 Brock, Sabra 19 Leving, Yuri 17 S Brougher, Valentina 15 Levitsky, Holli 11 Sadur, Nina 26 H Lipovetsky, Mark 14 Sagi, Avi 10 Hoch, Steven L. 12 Ljunggren, Magnus 23 Salvo, Maria di 18 Holzer, Elie 4 C Schweid, Eliezer 24 Castelnuovo, Antonella 11 Horev, Tuvia 5 M Shoham, Hizky 21 Chamiel, Ephraim 23 Muzychenko, Volodymir 6 Strickman, Norman 20 Cohen, Erik H. 10 I Szer, Włodzimierz 8 Ivanov, Georgy 15 O D Ospovat, Kirill 16 T Danylenko, Andrii 13 K Oz-Salzberger, Fania 22 Trubikhina, Julia 17 Davidovitch, Nitza 10 Kazmierska, Kaja 8 Draskoczy, Julie S. 21 Khiterer, Victoria 6 P V Klein, Hillel 9 Penkower, Monty Noam 25 Valentine, Sarah 17 E Klein-Braslavy, Sara 7 Proskurina, Vera 16 Englander, Yakir 10 Koenigsberg, Zvi 7 W Erlichson, Yitzhak 29 Kradin, Richard L. 9 R Weil, Irwin 14 Estraikh, Gennady 25 Kreisel, Howard 7 Ramrattan, Lall 19 Wortman, Richard 26

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A From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon O A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of On Personal and Public Concerns: Essays in Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs 4 Literary Ukrainian 13 Jewish Philosophy 24 Answering a Question with a Question: From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds: “Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish The Memoirs of Irwin Weil 14 Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Thought (Volume II): A Tradition of Inquiry 4 Modernism 15 Answering a Question with a Question: H Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Hating the Jews: The Rise of Antisemitism in P Thought 4 the 21st Century 28 At the Intersection of Education, Marketing, History, Memory, and Jewish Identity 5 Paleontology and Geology of the Martinsburg, and Transformation 19 Shawangunk, Onondaga, and Attuned Learning: Rabbinic Texts on Habits of I Hornerstown Formations (Northeastern the Heart in Learning Interactions 4 “I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the United States) with Some Field Guides 20 Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries and Palestine in Turmoil: B Letters of Daniil Kharms 27 Petersburg Winters and Disintegration of the Before They Were Titans: Essays on the Early Identity and Pedagogy: Shoah Education in Atom 15 Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy 12 Israeli State Schools 10 Poetry and Psychiatry: Essays on Early Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Intellectual Journeys of Recent, Mostly Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Gulag 21 “Defunct” Economists 19 Culture 23 Bieganski: The Brute Polack Stereotype in Invertebrate Paleontology (Mesozoic) of Israel Polish-Jewish Relations and American and Adjacent Countries with Emphasis on R Popular Culture 27 the Brachiopoda 20 Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Biography and Memory: The Generational Books 3–5 of Psalms: Chapters Experience of the Shoah Survivors 8 J 73–150 20 Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the C A History of the Jews in Kiev before First Book of Psalms: Chapters 1–41 20 Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit 5 February 1917 6 Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration Jewish Ludmir: The History and Tragedy of the Second Book of Psalms: Chapters 42–72 20 of Urban Zionism 21 Jewish Community of Volodymyr‑ Research in Jewish Demography and Identity 9 Contention, Controversy, and Change: Volynsky A Regional History 6 Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule 26 Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Jewish Religion After Theology 10 Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts 16 Experience, Volumes I and II 19 Judaism as Philosophy: Studies in Maimonides Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of S on the Enumeration, Classification, Provence 7 Sexuality and the Body in New and Formulation of the Scriptural Religious‑Zionist Discourse 10 Commandments 7 L Shoa and Experience: A Journey in Time 10 Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, the Age of Catherine II 16 Reader Volume II 14 Witnessing, Remembering 25 Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, D Reader, Vol. I 14 and the Literary Imagination 11 Development, Learning and Community: Life In Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945- Survival and Trials of Revival: Psychodynamic Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish 1950 6 Studies of Holocaust Survivors and High Schools 28 Literature, Exile, Alterity: The New York Group Their Families in Israel and the Diaspora 9 of Ukrainian Poets 22 E T Essays in Russian Social and Economic M Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the History 12 Maimonides As Biblical Interpreter 7 Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia 16 My Father’s Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds The First to be Destroyed: The Jewish F of Jewish Lithuania 8 Community of Kleczew and the Beginning First Words: On Dostoevsky’s Introductions 13 My Four Years in Soviet Russia 29 of the Final Solution 5

INDEX 33 The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac 17 The Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation of V The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture 24 the Jewish Culture: Philosophy of Biblical Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of The Israeli Nation-State: Political, Law 24 Exploration: Collected Articles on the Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges 22 The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933–1939, Representation of Russian Monarchy 26 The Lost Temple of Israel 7 Volumes I and II 25 Vygotsky and Bernstein in the Light of Jewish The Middle Way: The Emergence of Modern- The Translator’s Doubts: Vladimir Nabokov and Tradition 11 Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century the Ambiguity of Translation 17 Judaism—Responses to Modernity in the The Wandering Jew in America 9 Philosophy of Z. H. Chajes, S. R. Hirsch, and The Witching Hour and Other Plays 26 W Witness and Transformation: The Poetics of S. D. Luzzatto, Volumes I and II 23 To Our Children: Memoirs of Displacement: Gennady Aygi 17 The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Jewish Journey of Hope and Survival in Word and Image in Russian History: Essays in Italy 8 20th-Century Poland and Beyond 8 Honor of Gary Marker 18 The Parting of the Ways: Judaism, Christianity, Twentieth-Century Jews: Forging Identity in 50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century and the Psychoanalytic Theories of the Land of Promise and in the Promised Russian Short Stories 15 Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung 9 Land 25

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