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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 2023 in a number of ways, including:

  •   »   Shared in a social media post featuring your book only

And, new in 2023:

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.

 


2023 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

Whitman-Image---Dara-Barnat

Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry
Dara Barnat
University of Iowa Press, Iowa Whitman Series
View Video

A-Jewish-Childhood-flyer---Lia-Brozgal

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

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The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed the World
Debra Caplan and Rachel Merrill Moss, coeditors
University of Michigan Press

chanes-silk

The Future of Judaism in America
Jerome A. Chanes and Mark Silk, coeditors
Springer

dashefsky

American Jewish Year Book 2022
Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin, editors
Springer Nature

Longing-Cover---Merle-Feld

Longing: Poems of a Life
Merle Feld
CCAR Press

Jewish-Muslims-cover---David-Freidenreich

Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy
David M. Freidenreich
University of California Press

Garloff_German-Jewish-Literature_F22_Cover_final[59]---Katja-Garloff

Making German Jewish Literature Anew
Katja Garloff
Indiana University Press

Imagined Israel(s)

Imagined Israel(s) Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts
Rocco Giansante and Luna Goldberg, coeditors
Brill

Garloff_German-Jewish-Literature_F22_Cover_final[59]---Katja-Garloff

Kantika: A novel
Elizabeth Graver
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co.

Alex-Green

Jewish Virtue Ethics
Alexander Green, Geoffrey D. Claussen and Alan L. Mittleman, coeditors
SUNY Press

yudit-greenberg

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and George Pati, coeditors
Routlege

Cover---Frederick-Greenspahn

Judaism and Its Bible A People and Their Book
Frederick E. Greenspahn
The Jewish Publication Society

Re-forming-Judaism

Re-forming Judaism Moments of Disruption in Jewish Thought
Leah Hochman and Rabbi Stanley Davids, coeditors
CCAR Press

Ruth-Blau_Cover_final---Mordechai-Inbari

Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose
Motti Inbari
Indiana University Press
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Sheila-Jelen

Building A City: Writing on Agnon's Buczacz in Memory of Alan Mintz
Sheila E. Jelen, Jeffrey Saks, and Wendy Zierler, editors
Indiana University Press

Jelen-cover-for-author-(1)---Sheila-Jelen

Israeli Salvage Poetics
Sheila E. Jelen
Wayne State University Press

COVER-Rain-of-Ash---Ari-J.

Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
Ari Joskowicz
Princeton University Press

Brett-Kaplan

Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches
Brett Ashley Kaplan

Bloomsbury

kirzane

Miriam Karpilove: A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
Jessica Kirzane
, translator
Syracuse University Press

Lilly-Maier

Arthur and Lilly: The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor
Lilly Maier
Dominique Rotermund, translator
Titletown Publishing

adam-mendelsohn

Yearning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America
Adam D. Mendelsohn and Jonathan D. Sarna, coeditors
Princeton University Press

COVER-ART---Richard-Menkis

"In a 'Land of Hope': Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, 1627-1923
Richard Menkis and Pierre Anctil, coeditors
The Champlain Society / University of Toronto

Posen Volume 5

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5 The Early Modern Era, 1500-1750
Deborah Dash Moore, editor-in-chief
Yosef Kaplan, editor
Yale University Press

Posen Volume 7

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 7 National Renaissance and International Horizons, 1880–1918
Deborah Dash Moore, editor-in-chief
Israel Bartal, and Kenneth B. Moss, editors
Yale University Press

Walkers-in-the-City-cover---Deborah-Dash-Moore

Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York
Deborah Dash Moore
Three Hills (imprint of Cornell University Press)

John-Roth

Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy
John K. Roth and Leonard Grob
Cascade Books/Wipf and Stock

David-Sclar---The-Golden-Path_cover---David-Sclar

The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries
David Sclar, editor
Liverpool University Press

Joseph-Skloot

Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital Centering the Periphery
Nancy Sinkoff and Halina Goldberg, editors
Rutgers University Press
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thompson

Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition
Jennifer A. Thompson and Allison B. Wolf, editors
Lexington Books

ungar

Arthur Szyk Preserved: Institutional Collections of Original Art
Irvin Ungar, Samantha Lyons, and Allison Claire Chang, editors
Historicana, Burlingame, California in association with D Giles Limited, Lewes, UK

Hannah-Wilson

New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust
Hannah Wilson, Christin Zühlke, and Frédéric Bonnesoeur, editors
De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Lucas-Wilson

Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature
Lucas F. W. Wilson and Alan L. Berger, editors
Lexington Books

fictions-of-gender-cover---Orian-Zakai