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    • AJS Honors Its Authors

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

    Books will recognized throughout 2024 in a number of ways, including:

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    This year, we're also working closely with the Jewish Book Council to provide you with additional opportunities to celebrate your book and become involved in Jewish book culture.

    To submit your 2024 book, please click here to complete the online form.

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

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

    2024 Books by AJS Members

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

    Civil-War-Diary-Melissa-Klapper

    The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai
    Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper
    New York University Press

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    The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture
    Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino
    Brandeis University Press

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    The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland
    Krzysztof Bielawski
    Richard Bialy, translator
    Academic Studies Press
    View Video

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    'Arbeit Macht Frei' Representations and Meanings in Art
    Batya Brutin
    Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

    Sarah-Casteel

    Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art
    Sarah Phillips Casteel
    Columbia University Press

    Richard Cohen
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    Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside: Economic Trust and Antisemitic Violence
    Stefanie Fischer
    Jeremiah Riemer, translator
    Indiana University Press

    Oberbrechen

    Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past
    A Graphic History
    Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, authors
    Liz Clarke, illustrator
    Oxford University Press

    Andrea-Gondos

    The Life of the Soul: Jewish Perspectives on Reincarnation from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
    Andrea Gondos and Leore Sachs-Shmueli, editors
    State University of New York Press

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    Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American
    Rachel Gordan
    Oxford University Press

    Matrilieal-Dissent-Harrison-Kahan

    Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History
    Lori Harrison-Kahan, Annie Atura Bushnell, and Ashley Walters, editors
    Wayne State University Press

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    Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another
    Samuel Heilman and Mucahit Bilici
    University of California Press

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    Zionism: Emotions, Language and Experience
    Ofer Idels
    Cambridge University Press

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    Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth
    Deborah Kahn-Harris
    Lexington Books

    When-Jews-Argue-cover---Ethan-Katz

    When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash
    Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, and Elisha Ancselovits, editors
    Routledge

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    Jewish Education
    Ari Y. Kelman
    Rutgers University Press

    Anat-Kidron

    The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine The Story of a Forgotten Community
    Anat Kidron and Shuli Linder-Yarkony
    De Gruyter Oldenbourg

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    Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy: The Human Hand of Divine Rule
    Charles H. T. Lesch
    Cambridge University Press

    James-Nati

    The Rule of the Association and Related Texts
    James Nati and John J. Collins
    Oxford University Press

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    Israel and the Holocaust
    Avinoam Patt
    Bloomsbury Press
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    Emotions of Conflict: Israel 1949-1967
    Orit Rozin
    Haim Watzman, translator
    Oxford University Press

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    Circumventing the Law: Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
    Elana Stein Hain
    University of Pennsylvania Press

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    Antisemitism and the Politics of History
    Scott Ury and Guy Miron, editors
    Elli Fischer, translator
    Brandeis University Press

    Sivan-Zakai cover

    Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field
    Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold    , editors
    Brandeis University Press