Scholarly publisher
Academic Studies Press , (ASP ) is an independent scholarly publisher of books and journals, based in Boston, Massachusetts .[ 1]
Founded in 2007, ASP emphasizes Jewish studies and Slavic studies , but also publishes titles in religious studies , comparative literature , and history more broadly. Authors include Jacob Neusner , Fania Oz-Salzberger , Ellendea Proffer Teasley , Maxim D. Shrayer , Mark Lipovetsky , David Berger , Menachem Kellner , Viktor Zhivov , Jerold Auerbach , and Geoffrey Alderman ,[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] while works in translation include those of Maimonides , Ahad Ha'am , Mordecai Kaplan , Eliezer Schweid , and Yury Tynyanov .[ 6] [ 7] The press also specializes in Ukrainian translations, many of which received renewed interest during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine .[ 8] Its titles have won awards from the Jewish Book Council ,[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] the Modern Language Association ,[ 12] AATSEEL ,[ 13] and the Koffler Centre of the Arts ,[ 14] and have also appeared on reading lists published by Mosaic [ 15] and The Washington Post .[ 16]
In 2017, ASP was the recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to aid in the "creation of freely accessible e-books for 42 seminal titles in Russian literary and cultural history."[ 17] In the same year, ASP collaborated jointly with the NEH and the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University to publish Words for War , an anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry, featuring poems and commentary from figures such as Serhiy Zhadan and Ilya Kaminsky .[ 18]
In 2018, ASP published the "first authorized English-language translation" of Akram Aylisli 's controversial novella Stone Dreams .[ 19] [ 20]
In addition to its books list, the press publishes three peer-reviewed academic journals , including Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture , edited by Joseph Carroll ,[ 21] as well as the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism ,[ 22] edited since 2018 by Lesley Klaff. Citing her appointment as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism ,[ 23] the Algemeiner Journal named Klaff among their list of the "top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life" in 2018.[ 24] In 2020, ASP begin publication of a fourth peer-reviewed journal, Latin American Jewish Studies , on behalf of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.[ 25]
Since 2012, ASP has also served as the distributor and printer for books published by Touro College Press .[ 26] [ 27] In 2019, ASP entered into an e-book distribution partnership with the German academic publisher Walter de Gruyter .[ 28] [ 29]
^ "Academic Studies Press" . Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "Browse Catalog" . Archived from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "Detailed Record for Academic Studies Press" . University of Pennsylvania Library. Archived from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "Joseph Brodsky, Russia and artists under oppression subject of two book events" . The Plain Dealer . September 29, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "A son of refuseniks chronicles the slow dissolve of Russia's Jews" . Jewish Telegraphic Agency. January 16, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "Yuri Tynianov's "Film – Word – Music" " . Los Angeles Review of Books . August 11, 2018.
^ "Classics in Judaica" . Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ Marcus, Jon (September 22, 2022). "Ukraine crisis makes rapid appearance on US university curricula" . Times Higher Education (THE) . Retrieved December 10, 2022 .
^ "2012 National Jewish Book Award Winners" . Archived from the original on July 3, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "2014 National Jewish Book Award Winners" . Archived from the original on March 16, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ Cohen, Anne (January 14, 2015). "National Jewish Book Award Winners Are Here" . The Forward . Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
^ "Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies Winners" . Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
^ "Book Prize Winners for 2017" . Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards" . Archived from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ Kramer, Martin (December 19, 2019). "The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)" . Mosaic . Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ Dirda, Michael (May 15, 2018). "What to Read Next? A Summer Book List Like No Other" . The Washington Post . Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce Grants to Make Books Available to Public Audiences" . National Endowment for the Humanities . April 5, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
^ Kapitsa, Bohdana (February 26, 2018). "Anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry published in US" . День (The Day) . Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
^ Kucera, Joshua (November 20, 2018). "With English translation, controversial Azerbaijani novel to reach global audience" . eurasianet . Retrieved March 21, 2019 .
^ Amos, Howard (November 22, 2018). "Akram Aylisli: how one Azerbaijani writer dealt with a book burning campaign against him" . The Calvert Journal .
^ Carroll, Joseph (2017). "Why We Need a Journal with the Title Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture ". Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture . 1 (1): vii–xi. doi :10.26613/esic.1.1.1 . JSTOR 10.26613/esic.1.1.1 . S2CID 189510793 .
^ "Academic Studies Press Launches 'Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism' (JCA) Edited by Clemens Heni" . Defending History . Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "The Algemeiner Jewish 100: The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2018" . Algemeiner Journal . Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
^ Algemeiner Staff (September 14, 2018). "Algemeiner Reveals 5th Annual 'J100' List at Star-Studded Gala Featuring Sharon Stone and Nir Barkat" . Algemeiner Journal . Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
^ "Latin American Jewish Studies" . Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
^ "TC Press Information" . Archived from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "Touro College Press" . Archived from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
^ "De Gruyter und Academic Studies Press kooperieren" . Buch Markt . August 23, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
^ "De Gruyter and Academic Studies Press enter partnership" . August 23, 2019. Archived from the original on November 28, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .