Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of several books in Jewish Studies. Please see below for recently published and forthcoming books, and books newly released in paperback.
*New and Forthcoming* *In the Crook of the Rock: Jewish Refuge in a World Gone Mad — The Chaya Leah Walkin Story <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/in-the-crook-of-the-rock-jewish-refuge-in-a-world-gone-mad> *by Vera Schwarcz Series: Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society March 2018 | 307 pp.; 18 illus. 9781618117854 | $90.00 | CL 9781618117861 | $34.00 | PB *Summary:* Focusing upon the life of Chaya Walkin—one little girl from a distinguished Torah lineage in Poland—this book illustrates the inner resources of the refugee community that made possible survival with dignity. Based on a wide variety of sources and languages, this book is crafted around the voice of a child who was five years old when she was forced to flee her home in Poland and start the terrifying journey to Vilna, Kobe, and Shanghai. The Song of Songs is used to provide an unexpected and poetic angle of vision upon strategies for creating meaning in times of historical trauma. *Vera Schwarcz* was born in Romania and became an historian of China and a poet in the United States. For the past four decades she taught at Wesleyan University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her work was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fullbright Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Lady Davis Fellowship. Schwarcz is the author of nine books about Chinese and Jewish history, including *Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory* (Yale University Press, 1989) which was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and *Colors of Veracity: A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond (*University of Hawai'i Press, 2014). She has also written six books of poetry, including most recently *The Physics of Wrinkle Formation *(Antrim House, 2015). For more information about her work, visit between2walls.com. For more information on this title, please visit the book’s dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/ forthcoming/in-the-crook-of-the-rock-jewish-refuge-in-a-world-gone-mad *Miracle Child: The Journey of a Young Holocaust Survivor <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/miracle-child> *by Anita Epstein *Series: *The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy April 2018 | 144 pp.; 14 illus. 9781618118585 | $90.00 | Cloth 9781618118592 | $19.00 | Paperback *Summary:* This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably, escaping death—one of a mere one half of one percent of Jewish children in Poland who survived during the Nazi era. Her life was saved because her parents hid her with a Catholic family. Just as remarkably, her mother, still alive after suffering terribly through four of Hitler’s camps, traveled for weeks back to Poland and found her again. The book also depicts the author’s postwar challenges in Germany and America. *Anita Epstein, *among the world's younger Holocaust survivors, came to America at seven years old and, in her teens, auditioned twice for the film role of Anne Frank. She later became a lobbyist for education and trade issues. She worries a great deal about what will happen when the last Holocaust survivors, like her, are gone. *Noel Epstein, *former Education Editor of The Washington Post, spent more than forty years as a journalist with the Post, the Wall Street Journal and as an independent consultant. He is the editor of *Who’s In Charge Here? The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy* (Brookings Institution Press, 2004) and author of *Language, Ethnicity, and the Schools *(Institute for Educational Leadership, George Washington University, 1977), which helped shape U.S. bilingual education policy. For more information on this title, please visit the book’s dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/miracle-child *Conversations with Colleagues: On Becoming an American Jewish Historian <https://academicstudiespress-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1uc949mypSL8ytAQupogdLsENZkHxObMyqssY46GFK0A-0&key=YAMMID-67308524&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academicstudiespress.com%2Fforthcoming%2Fconversations-with-colleagues-on-becoming-an-american-jewish-historian>*, edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock *Series:* North American Jewish Studies April 2018 | 272 pp. 9781618118561 | $79.00 USD | Cloth *Summary:* Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history—among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia—converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtful and candid recollections of the challenges they faced in becoming accepted academics, they retell the story of how the study of the Jews and Judaism in the United States rose from being long dismissed as an amateurish enterprise not worthy of serious consideration in the world of ideas to its position today as a respected field in communication with all humanities scholars. They also imagine and chart the direction the writing on American Jews will take in the coming era. *Jeffrey S. Gurock *is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. A prize-winning author or editor of twenty books in the field of American Jewish history, he was twice chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and for twenty years an editor of its journal, American Jewish History. For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/conversations- with-colleagues-on-becoming-an-american-jewish-historian <https://academicstudiespress-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1uc949mypSL8ytAQupogdLsENZkHxObMyqssY46GFK0A-0&key=YAMMID-67308524&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academicstudiespress.com%2Fforthcoming%2Fconversations-with-colleagues-on-becoming-an-american-jewish-historian> --- *New in Paperback* *The Charm of Wise Hesitancy: Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/the-charm-of-wise-hesitancy> *by David C. Jacobson *Series:* Israel: Society, Culture and History 184 pp. May 2017 | 9781618115546 | $79.00 | CL April 2018 | 9781618117885 | $29.00 | PB *Summary:* In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories. This growing fascination with Talmudic stories has been inspired by contemporary Israeli writers who have sought to make readers aware of the special qualities of these well-crafted narratives that portray universal human situations, including marriages, relationships between parents and children, power struggles between people, and the challenge of trying to live a good life. *The Charm of Wise Hesitancy* explores the resurgence of interest in Talmudic stories in Israel and presents some of the most popular Talmudic stories in contemporary Israeli culture, as well as creative interpretations of those stories by Israeli writers, thereby providing readers with an opportunity to consider how these stories may be relevant to their own lives. *David C. Jacobson* is Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University. He is author of *Modern Midrash: The Retelling of Traditional Jewish Narratives by Twentieth-Century Hebrew Writers* (State University of New York Press, 1987); *Does David Still Play Before You? Israeli Poetry and the Bible* (Wayne State University Press, 1997); *Creator, Are You Listening? Israeli Poets on God and Prayer* (Indiana University Press, 2007); *Beyond Political Messianism: The Poetry of Second-Generation Religious Zionist Settlers* (Academic Studies Press, 2011); *Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature*, edited with Kamal Abdel-Malek (St. Martin's Press, 1999); and *History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band*, edited with William Cutter (Brown Judaic Studies, 2002). For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/ browse-catalog/the-charm-of-wise-hesitancy *Fundamentals of Jewish Conflict Resolution: Traditional Jewish Perspectives on Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/fundamentals-of-jewish-conflict-resolution> *by Howard Kaminsky *Series:* Studies in Orthodox Judaism 609 pp. December 2017 | 9781618115638 | $109.00 | CL April 2018 | 9781618118455 |$42.00 | PB * Summary: Fundamentals of Jewish Conflict Resolution *offers an in-depth presentation of traditional Jewish approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution. It examines the underlying principles, prescriptive rules, and guidelines that are found in the Jewish tradition for the prevention, amelioration, and resolution of interpersonal conflicts, without the assistance of any type of third-party intermediary. Among the topics discussed are the obligations of pursuing peace and refraining from destructive conflict, Rabbinic perspectives on what constitutes constructive/destructive conflict, judging people favorably and countering negative judgmental biases, resolving conflict through dialogue, asking and granting forgiveness, and anger management. This work also includes detailed summaries of contemporary approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution, theories and research on apologies and forgiveness, and methods of anger management. *Howard Kaminsky* is a research fellow at the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution, and serves as a mediator for Community Mediation Services in Queens, NY. He has an EdD in religion and education from Teachers College, Columbia University and rabbinic ordination from Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem. For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/ browse-catalog/fundamentals-of-jewish-conflict-resolution *Antisemitism on the Campus: Past and Present <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/antisemitism-on-the-campus-past-and-present>* by Eunice G. Pollack *Series:* Antisemitism in America 474 pp. December 2010 | 9781934843826 | $119.00 | CL April 2018 | 9781618113245 | $34.00 | PB * Summary: Antisemitism on the Campus: Past and Presen*t, edited by Eunice G. Pollack, is the first entry of a multidisciplinary series on antisemitism in America to be published by Academic Studies Press. In this volume, eighteen leading scholars explore the roots and manifestations of antisemitism and anti-Zionism at American, British, and Canadian colleges and universities over the course of the twentieth century and the responses to such biases. Topics such as the intensification of antisemitism and anti-Zionism on individual campuses, the anti-Israel divestment and boycott movements, discrimination against Jewish faculty, students, and organizations, and students’ exposure to antisemitism and anti-Zionism through popular culture, among others, are covered. *Eunice G. Pollack* (PhD Columbia University) is Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of North Texas. She is a member of the Academic Council of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. Her published works include *The Childhood We Have Lost: When Siblings Were Caregivers, 1900-1970* and *The Encyclopedia of American Jewish History*, which she co-edited with Professor Stephen Norwood (2008). 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