The AJS is pleased to celebrate the 2023 books of AJS members as part of the AJS Honors Its Authors program.
Books will recognized throughout 2023 in a number of ways, including:
» Listed in a dedicated online catalog, including cover art and brief videos
» Displayed in the Exhibit Hall at the 2023 Annual Conference in San Francisco in December
» Featured in an AJS Honors Its Authors email newsletter
» Shared in a social media post featuring your book only
And, new in 2023:
» Featured in the AJS Honors Its Authors print edition book catalog, which will be distributed at the 2023 Annual Conference in San Francisco in December and mailed to all current AJS members
To submit your 2023 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.
The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture
Monika Amsler
Cambridge University Press
Queer Judaism: LBGT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel
Orit Avishai
New York University
Press
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories curated by Leïla Sebbar
Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, coeditors
University of California Press
The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed the World
Debra Caplan and Rachel Merrill Moss, coeditors
University of Michigan Press
Funny, You Don't Look Funny:Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials
Jennifer Caplan
Wayne State University Press
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The Future of Judaism in America
Jerome A. Chanes and Mark Silk, coeditors
Springer
Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946
Sarah A. Cramsey
Indiana University Press
No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
Rowan Dorin
Princeton University Press
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean
Yaron Z. Eliav
Princeton University Press
The Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1750-1800
Shmuel Feiner
Indiana University Press
The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought
Yaniv Feller
Cambridge University Press
Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy
David M. Freidenreich
University of California Press
À la Recherche de l’Intégration: Les marchands juifs séfarades occidentaux à Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne face à la société bayonnaise au XVIIIe siècle
Nimrod Mordechai Gaatone
Peeters Publishers
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Making German Jewish Literature Anew
Katja Garloff
Indiana University Press
Kantika: A novel
Elizabeth Graver
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co.
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and George Pati,
coeditors
Routlege
Judaism and Its Bible A People and Their Book
Frederick E. Greenspahn
The Jewish Publication Society
God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible
Esther J. Hamori
Broadleaf
Books
Re-forming Judaism Moments of Disruption in Jewish Thought
Leah Hochman and Rabbi Stanley Davids, coeditors
CCAR Press
Divre binah; Zikhronot. Kitve Dov Ber ben Yehuda Birkenthal
Gershon David Hundert
Mossad Bialik
Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose
Motti Inbari
Indiana University Press
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Israeli Salvage Poetics
Sheila E. Jelen
Wayne State University Press
The First Jewish Environmentalist: The Green Philosophy of A.D. Gordon
Yuval Jobani
Oxford
University Press
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
Ari Joskowicz
Princeton University Press
The Sacred Earth Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet
Andrue J. Kahn
CCAR Press
Miriam Karpilove: A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
Jessica Kirzane,
translator
Syracuse University Press
Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission
Rebecca E. Margolis
McGill-Queen's University Press
#UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities
Keren R McGinity
Routledge
They Way of Humanity: According to Chasidic Teaching
Bernard H. Mehlman
CCAR Press
Yearning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America
Adam D. Mendelsohn and Jonathan D. Sarna,
coeditors
Princeton University Press
Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York
Deborah Dash Moore
Three Hills (imprint of Cornell University Press)
Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond
Ranen Omer-Sherman
SUNY Press
Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation
Benjamin E. Sax
Brill
The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries
David Sclar, editor
Liverpool University Press
The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive
Nancy L. Segal
Academic Studies Press
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The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900: A Social History of East European Agunah
Haim Sperber
Liverpool University Press
The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land
Lea Taragin-Zeller
New
York University Press
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism
Magda Teter
Princeton University Press
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe
Alan Verskin
Stanford University Press
Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Melissa Weininger
Wayne State University Press
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The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg
Princeton University Press
Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Laura Yares
New York University Press