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:
» Listed in a dedicated online catalog, including cover art and brief videos
» Listed in the AJS Honors Its Authors print edition book catalog, which will be mailed to all current AJS members
» Featured in an AJS Honors Its Authors email newsletter
» Shared in a social media post featuring your book only
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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.
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
Jeffrey Abt
Berghahn Books
The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai
Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper
New York University Press
Mazaltob: A Novel
Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino
Brandeis University Press
Modern Responsa: An Anthology of Jewish Ethical and Ritual Decisions
Pamela Barmash
Jewish Publication Society
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The Gates of Gaza: Critical Voices from Israel on October 7 and the War with Hamas
Lihi Ben Shitrit, editor
De Gruyter
The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland
Krzysztof Bielawski
Richard Bialy, translator
Academic Studies Press
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Hitler's Twilight of the Gods: Music and the Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe
Alexandra Birch
University of Toronto Press
Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity
Yonatan Y. Brafman
Oxford University Press
Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe
Tobias Brinkmann
Oxford University Press
'Arbeit Macht Frei' Representations and Meanings in Art
Batya Brutin
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art
Sarah Phillips Casteel
Columbia University Press
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From Language to Performance: Jewish Tongues Onstage in Israel
Sarit Cofman-Simhon
Mofet Institute
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Jerusalem Transformed: Politics, Culture, and Hidden Corners
Richard I. Cohen
Oxford
University Press
Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement
Yitzhak Conforti
Academic Studies Press
For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today
Elliot Cosgrove
Harvest
Jewish Options: Pluralistic Identities in 21st Century America
Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, and J. Alan Winter
Springer Nature
Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
Hasia Diner
St. Martin's Press
The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
Glenn Dynner
Oxford University Press
Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary
Rachel Z. Feldman
Rutgers University Press
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside: Economic Trust and Antisemitic Violence
Stefanie Fischer
Jeremiah Riemer, translator
Indiana University Press
Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past
A Graphic History
Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, authors
Liz Clarke, illustrator
Oxford University Press
The Shortest Guide to College Admissions
Jane S. Gabin
Lystra Books
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New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre
Olga Gershenson
Rutgers Univeristy
Press
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
Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American
Rachel Gordan
Oxford
University Press
Covenant and World Religions Irving Greenberg, Jonathan Sacks, and the Quest for Orthodox Pluralism
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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Jewish Country Houses
Abigail Green and Juliet Carey,
editors
Brandeis University Press
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Journey through the Spanish Civil War: The Hinterlands
Deborah A. Green
White Goat Press
Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine by Mikhail Goldis
Marat Grinberg, translator
Academic Studies Press
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
Simcha Gross
Cambridge University Press
The Jewish Family in Global Perspective
Harriet Hartman
Springer Nature International
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Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Annie Atura Bushnell, and Ashley Walters,
editors
Wayne State University Press
The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom
Ziva Hassenfeld
Brandeis University Press
Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another
Samuel Heilman and Mucahit Bilici
University of California Press
Zionism: Emotions, Language and Experience
Ofer Idels
Cambridge University Press
Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: American Evangelical Opinion on Israel
Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin
Oxford University Press
Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel
Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks
Brandeis University Press
Testimonial Montage: A Family of Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance
Sheila E. Jelen
Lexington
Books
Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth
Deborah Kahn-Harris
Lexington
Books
Warsaw Testament
Samuel Kassow
White Goat Press
When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash
Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, and Elisha Ancselovits, editors
Routledge
Jewish Education
Ari Y. Kelman
Rutgers University Press
The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine The Story of a Forgotten Community
Anat Kidron and Shuli Linder-Yarkony
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Holocaust Memory and the Cold War: Remembering across the Iron Curtain
Anna Koch and Stephan Stach, editors
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Promised Lands: North and South Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation
David S. Koffman and David M.K. Sheinin, editors
Brill
Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction
Karolina Krasuska
Rutgers University Press
Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew
Lisa Lampert-Weissig
University of Michigan Press
Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy: The Human Hand of Divine Rule
Charles H. T. Lesch
Cambridge University Press
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Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate
Yosie Levine
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel
Amit Levy
Brandeis University Press
Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry
Laura Suzanne Lieber
Oxford University Press
Golden Ages: Hasidic Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era
Jeremiah Lockwood
University of California Press
Jerusalem through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades
Jodi Magness
Oxford University Press
The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts
Rebecca Margolis
Rowman & Littlefield
Smoothing the Jew: Abie the Agent and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era
Jeffrey A. Marx
Rutgers University Press
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Carrying a Big Schtick:
Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
Miriam Eve Mora
Wayne State University Press
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community
Aviad Moreno
Indiana University Press
Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance
Klara Naszkowska
Routlege
The Rule of the Association and Related Texts
James Nati and John J. Collins
Oxford University Press
When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species
Rafael Neis
University of California Press
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True to My God and Country: How Jewish Americans Fought in World War II
Francoise Simcha Ouzan
Indiana University Press
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First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian
Grace Kessler Overbeke
New York University Press
Israel and the Holocaust
Avinoam Patt
Bloomsbury Press
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Taking the Transnational Turn The German-Jewish Press and Journalism Beyond Borders, 1933-1943
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
Yad Vashem Publications
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Awakening to Radical Islamist Evil: The Hamas War Against Israel and the Jews
Monty Noam Penkower
Touro University Press
Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
Hannah Pollin-Galay
University of Pennsylvania Press
For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy through the Arts in the Digital Age
Jessica Roda
New York University Press
Emotions of Conflict: Israel 1949-1967
Orit Rozin
Haim Watzman, translator
Oxford University Press
Taboo and Prohibitions in Castilian Kabbalah
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
Schocken Institute- JTS, Jerusalem
Tracking the Jews: Ecumenical Protestants, Conversion, and the Holocaust
Carolyn Sanzenbacher
Manchester University Press
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The Progressives' Bible: How Scriptural Interpretation Built a More Just America
Claudia J. Setzer
Fortress Press
Why Celebrate Bar and Bat Mitzvah? Rites of Initiation, Gender, and Spectacle across Jewish Cultures
Hizky Shoham
Lenn
J. Schramm, translator
DeGruyter
Letters From Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity
Malka Z. Simkovich
Eisenbrauns
A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History
Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovitch,
editors
Wayne State University Press
Circumventing the Law: Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Elana Stein Hain
University
of Pennsylvania Press
Israel/Palestine in World Religions Whose Promised Land?
Ilan Troen
Palgrave Macmillan
Antisemitism and the Politics of History
Scott Ury and Guy Miron, editors
Elli Fischer, translator
Brandeis University Press
Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit
Kerry Wallach
Penn State University Press
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From New Christians to New Jews: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Texts in Defense of Judaism
Matthew D. Warshawsky
LinguaText, LLC
Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys
Daniela R. P. Weiner
Cornell University Press
The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
Simon & Schuster
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The Abrahamic Vernacular
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg
Cambridge University Press
Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field
Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold, editors
Brandeis University Press
A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
Saul Noam Zaritt
Fordham University Press
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