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]
References
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"Academic Studies Press" . Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"Browse Catalog" . Archived from
the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"Detailed Record for Academic Studies Press" . University of Pennsylvania Library. Archived from
the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"Joseph Brodsky, Russia and artists under oppression subject of two book events" . The Plain Dealer . September 29, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"A son of refuseniks chronicles the slow dissolve of Russia's Jews" . Jewish Telegraphic Agency. January 16, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"Yuri Tynianov's "Film – Word – Music" " . Los Angeles Review of Books . August 11, 2018.
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"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 .
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"2012 National Jewish Book Award Winners" . Archived from
the original on July 3, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"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 .
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"Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies Winners" . Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
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"Book Prize Winners for 2017" . Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"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 .
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"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 .
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"Academic Studies Press Launches 'Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism' (JCA) Edited by Clemens Heni" . Defending History . Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"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 .
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"Latin American Jewish Studies" . Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
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"TC Press Information" . Archived from
the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"Touro College Press" . Archived from
the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
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"De Gruyter und Academic Studies Press kooperieren" . Buch Markt . August 23, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
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"De Gruyter and Academic Studies Press enter partnership" . August 23, 2019. Archived from
the original on November 28, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
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