Academic Studies Press
PUBLISHING WITH ASP
About ASP Academic Studies Press is an independent scholarly publisher devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding in the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on Jewish Studies and Slavic Studies. Through our outstanding, opinionleading authors and series editors, we continuously strive to enhance understanding through our monographs and critical companions, Improve the accessibility of classic works through our translations, and inspire dialogue through our memoirs and scholarly commentaries. We champion Innovative ideas and new, creative interpretations.
WHY PUBLISH WITH ACADEMIC STUDIES PRESS? Professionalism ASP is committed to publishing the most thought-provoking scholarship in Jewish and Slavic Studies. We place a strong emphasis on quality and have experience publishing both the seasoned scholar and the first-time author. Our publishing program is consistent and credible. ASP is also pleased to provide a number of services not always offered by academic presses, including copyediting, proofreading, index creation, and attractive cover art design.
Peer Review All ASP titles are curated in collaboration with our series editors, who are major scholars in their respective fields, and undergo rigorous peer review before official acceptance.
First Book Program
Copyediting
Publication with a respected scholarly press like ASP will help you to advance your academic career. We can help you turn your doctoral dissertation into an impressive scholarly monograph. Our peer review process for young scholars includes reports from two of your senior colleagues, one of which will focus specifically on structural and editorial recommendations.
Our network of trained copyeditors are well-versed in the ASP style guide. Throughout the copyediting stage, we encourage open communication between you and your designated copyeditor to ensure that your manuscript is both strengthened and also representative of your authorial voice.
At your request, ASP can also offer “in house� developmental editing of your manuscript prior to its submission for peer review. Developmental editing will enhance the likelihood of the recommendation to publish your manuscript as well as improve the academic quality and scholarly reception of your published monograph.
Collaboration We are happy to help our authors secure copyright permissions for illustrations or the republication of articles, and to assist our authors in putting together documentation to obtain research grants for their publications with us. In cases when a subvention is necessary, we work to keep costs as low as possible.
Production Our experienced Production staff is ready to move your manuscript through the publication process in a timely and professional manner. We pride ourselves on having one of the fastest production timelines in the academic publishing business.
Typesetting & Design Your scholarship deserves to be presented in a professional manner. From the attractive cover art to the clear typographical layout, our volumes are frequently complimented on their design quality in both print and digital formats.
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Printing
Review Copies
To ensure that your work will always remain available in print format, ASP has teamed up with a leading Print-on-Demand supplier known for its exceptional quality and efficiency.
Publications that regularly review ASP titles include:
Promotion Our Sales & Marketing team will work closely with you to determine the best marketing strategies for your book. At the minimum, all titles receive:
accurate profiling and data distribution through data agencies a full catalog page on www.academicstudiespress.com inclusion in catalogs sent to lecturers, libraries, library suppliers, sales representatives and bookshops inclusion in subject-specific promotional pieces taken to conferences and events advertising in relevant print journals and publications inclusion in relevant subject-specific emails sent to our email databases review copy mailing to appropriate journals and publications promotion through social media platforms
Conferences ASP recognizes the importance of displaying your book in print format to its intended audience. Whether through our distributors, third-party book exhibitors, or direct representation, ASP makes every attempt to display your book at all relevant academic meetings. Each year, our books are represented at over twenty conferences.
International Distribution ASP titles are distributed in North America by ISD - Distributor of Scholarly Books and in the overseas market by Eurospan Limited. Both distributors are well-respected in the academic book market and perform their own marketing efforts, including data distribution, conference participation, subject-specific print and email campaigns, and sales representation. Our distributors have close relationships with the trade’s most important wholesalers and retailers and strive to keep libraries, scholars, and the general reader well-informed of our catalog offerings.
AJL Reviews Canadian Slavonic Papers CHOICE European History Quarterly H-Net Reviews International Journal of Russian Studies Jewish Book World Jewish Quarterly Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Middle East Quarterly Modern Language Review Revue des Études Juives Slavic and East European Journal Slavonic and East European Review Studies in Contemporary Jewry The Russian Review The Slavic Review The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review Times Literary Supplement
Awards Our titles have received many awards, including the National Jewish Book Award, the AATSEEL Book Award for Best Literary Translation into English, and the MLA’s Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.
Digital Distribution All ASP titles are available digitally through a number of online ebook platforms. This includes major library subscription services such as ProQuest and EBSCO. ASP makes great efforts to present a variety of formats to customers—with an emphasis on libraries—to ensure that all purchasing preferences are met.
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“Academic Studies Press makes possible the publication of a large range of valuable monographs and has established itself as a major force in scholarship of Eastern Europe and Russia. All the books it publishes are subjected to a rigorous process of evaluation and editing, which ensures the academic integrity of the project.”
JEWISH STUDIES SERIES
—Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society Series Editor: Roberta Rosenberg Farber (Yeshiva University)
Antisemitism in America Series Editor: Eunice Pollack (University of North Texas) Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Series Editor: Dov Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University) Gender Studies in Judaism Series Editor: Patricia J. Woods (University of Florida) The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy Series Editor: Michael Berenbaum (American Jewish University) Israel: Society, Culture and History Series Editor: Yaacov Yadgar (Bar-Ilan University)
Jews of Poland Series Editor: Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University) Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy Series Editor: Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College)
“Speed and reliability of turnaround, astute advice, and beautiful book production values make working with ASP a pleasure.” —Richard Wortman, Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History, Columbia University, Author of Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule and Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy
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Judaism and Jewish Life Series Editor: Simcha Fishbane, PhD (Touro College) Lands and Ages of the Jewish People Series Editor: Ira Robinson (Concordia University)
New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism Series Editor: Shaul Magid (Indiana University, Bloomington) North American Jewish Studies Series Editor: Ira Robinson (Concordia University) Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual Life Series Editor: Giuseppe Veltri (University of Hamburg & University of Leipzig) Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Series Editor: Lewis Aron, PhD (New York University) Studies in Orthodox Judaism Series Editor: Marc B. Shapiro (University of Scranton)
SLAVIC STUDIES SERIES Ars Rossica Series Editor: David Bethea (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Companions to Russian Literature Series Editor: Thomas Seifrid (University of Southern California) Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century Series Editor: Boris Wolfson (Amherst College) Cultural Syllabus Series Editor: Mark Lipovetsky (University of Colorado, Boulder) Czech Studies Series Editor: Malynne Sternstein (University of Chicago) Film and Media Studies Series Editors: Alexander Prokhorov (College of William & Mary) Elena Prokhorova (College of William & Mary) Imperial Encounters in Russian History Series Editor: Gary Marker (State University of New York, Stony Brook) Liber Primus Series Editor: David Bethea (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Lithuanian Studies Series Editor: Darius Staliunas (Lithuanian Institute of History) Myths and Taboos in Russian Culture Series Editor: Alyssa Dinega Gillespie (University of Notre Dame) Polish Studies Series Editor: Halina Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History Series Editor: Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary, University of London) Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History Series Editor: Lazar Fleishman (Stanford University)
The Real Twentieth Century Series Editor: Thomas Seifrid (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) The Unknown Nineteenth Century Series Editor: Joe Peschio (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Series Highlight: Liber Primus "Liber Primus” is a new series designed for authors early in their careers, in many cases assistant professors coming up for tenure. A primary goal of the series is to create an outlet for outstanding academic books in our field at a time when university presses, forced to focus on “bottom lines” and trim their lists accordingly, are increasingly unlikely, regardless of the project, to take on proposals from untested, younger, less published scholars in our field. The series does not promote any specific scholarly-critical methodology, nor does it limit itself to any period, genre, or author grouping in Russian/Slavic literature/culture. Primary criteria will be quality of the research, conceptual robustness, clarity of thought, and elegance of style. Interdisciplinary projects are welcome. The vetting process will be rigorous and “blind,” with readers normally including a specialist with appropriate expertise and a member of the editorial board. It is the editor’s and editorial board’s hope that the seriousness of the review process and the attractiveness and attention to detail accompanying the finished product will give the books in this series the sort of “imprimatur” that deans and tenure committees will take into account as they shape the future of the discipline and the profession. SERIES EDITOR: David Bethea (University of Wisconsin-Madison) EDITORIAL BOARD: Caryl Emerson (Princeton University) Svetlana Evdokimova (Brown University) John Mackay (Yale University) Irina Reyfman (Columbia University) Justin Weir (Harvard University)
Ukrainian Studies Series Editor: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas)
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“Though a relatively new press, ASP has already published a large number of innovative and fundamental books in Russian studies, books written by acknowledged and young scholars alike. What distinguishes ASP from other presses is its openness for innovative approaches to scholarship and a readiness to explore subjects that other academic presses might find too "esoteric" and "unpopular". At the same time, for a peer-review press, it works with incredible efficiency. The process of the book publication from the submission of a manuscript to the final product appears to be two or even three times shorter than in the university presses. But most importantly, it is our press: Slavic and Russian studies constitute one of the main directions in the work of ASP, which certainly differs it from other US academic presses where our field is pushed into a back row.” —Mark Lipovetsky, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Cultural Syllabus” Series Editor
“Academic Studies Press has grown into a serious alternative to many university presses. Along with issuing extremely valuable monographs on Jewish Studies, it has established several important series devoted to Russian and Slavic literatures and cultures that present the works by the most prominent scholars in the field. The Press also seeks to create most favorable conditions for the younger scholars’ first monographs.” — Lazar Fleishman, Stanford University, “Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History
Contact ASP
Acquisitions Team
Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 United States of America
Faith Wilson Stein, PhD Slavic Studies Acquisitions Editor fwstein@academicstudiespress.com
David Michelson, PhD Acquisitions Editor Associate dmichelson@academicstudiespress.com
Gregg Stern, PhD Jewish Studies Acquisitions Editor gstern@academicstudiespress.com
Igor Nemirovsky, PhD Director & Publisher igor.nemirovsky@academicstudiespress.com
Tel: +1 (617) 782 6290 Fax: +1 (857)241 3149
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