Academic Studies Press, (ASP) is an independent scholarly publisher of books and journals, based in

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. Founded in 2007, ASP emphasizes

Jewish studies Jewish studies (or Judaic studies; ) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history (especially Jewish history), Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, ...

and

Slavic studies Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or ...

, but also publishes titles in

religious studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...

comparative literature Comparative literature studies is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across language, linguistic, national, geographic, and discipline, disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role ...

, and history more broadly. Authors include

Jacob Neusner Jacob Neusner (July 28, 1932 – October 8, 2016) was an American academic scholar of Judaism. He was named as one of the most published authors in history, having written or edited more than 900 books. Neusner's application of form criticism� ...

Fania Oz-Salzberger Fania Oz-Salzberger (; born 28 October 1960) is an Israeli historian and writer, Professor Emerita of history at the University of Haifa School of Law and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES). Biography Oz-Salzberger was bo ...

, Ellendea Proffer Teasley, Maxim D. Shrayer, Mark Lipovetsky, David Berger, Menachem Kellner, Viktor Zhivov,

Jerold Auerbach Jerold Auerbach (born 1936) is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at Wellesley College. His work principally addresses the modern history of the legal profession, Native Americans, and Israel and the Jewish people. Auerb ...

, and Geoffrey Alderman, while works in translation include those of

Maimonides Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (, ) and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (), was a Sephardic rabbi and Jewish philosophy, philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah schola ...

, Ahad Ha'am,

Mordecai Kaplan Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983) was an American Conservative rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism al ...

, Eliezer Schweid, and Yury Tynyanov. The press also specializes in Ukrainian translations, many of which received renewed interest during the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

. Its titles have won awards from the

Jewish Book Council The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1943, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of quali ...

, the

Modern Language Association The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. The MLA aims to "str ...

, AATSEEL, and the Koffler Centre of the Arts, and have also appeared on reading lists published by ''Mosaic'' and ''

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''. In 2017, ASP was the recipient of funding from the

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

to aid in the "creation of freely accessible

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s for 42 seminal titles in Russian literary and cultural history." In the same year, ASP collaborated jointly with the NEH and the Ukrainian Research Institute at

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to publish ''Words for War'', an anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry, featuring poems and commentary from figures such as Serhiy Zhadan and

Ilya Kaminsky Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections ''Dancing in Odesa'' and ''Deaf Republic'', which have earned him several awards. In 2019, the BBC named Kaminsky among " ...

. In 2018, ASP published the "first authorized English-language translation" of Akram Aylisli's controversial novella '' Stone Dreams.'' In addition to its books list, the press publishes three

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ...

s, including ''Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture'', edited by Joseph Carroll, as well as the '' Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism,'' edited since 2018 by Lesley Klaff. Citing her appointment as editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism'', the ''

Algemeiner Journal The ''Algemeiner Journal'', known informally as ''The Algemeiner'', is a newspaper based in New York City that covers American and international Jewish and Israel-related news. It is widely read by Hasidic Jews. History Gershon Jacobson, a ...

'' named Klaff among their list of the "top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life" in 2018. In 2020, ASP begin publication of a fourth peer-reviewed journal, ''Latin American Jewish Studies'', on behalf of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association. Since 2012, ASP has also served as the distributor and printer for books published by Touro College Press. In 2019, ASP entered into an

distribution partnership with the German academic publisher

Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...

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