Academic Studies Press is a 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, opinion-leading 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 scholarly commentaries. We champion innovative ideas and new, creative interpretations.
Award Winning Titles:
- 75th National Jewish Book Awards 2025 in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience Dorot Foundation Award, awarded to Lawrence Grossman for Living in Both Worlds: Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States, 1945–2025.
- 2025 AATSEEL Book Awards in Linguistics And Language Pedagogy, awarded to David Bethea for The Pushkin Project: Russia's Favorite Writer, Modern Evolutionary Thought, and Teaching Inner-City Youth.
- Outstanding Academic Titles CHOICE Award 2024, awarded to Diana Lobel for Faith and Trust: An Introduction to Judeo-Arabic Thought.
- AAUS (American Association for Ukrainian Studies) Translation Prize, awarded to Andriy Sodomora’s The Tears and Smiles of Things.
- 2024 Bernard Lewis Prize, awarded to Cary Nelson for Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles.
Academic Studies Press Highlights
Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880–1882
The first comprehensive annotated edition of Chekhov's earliest stories in English. Translated as part of a unique project involving 85 volunteers from 9 countries, the 58 stories were all written between 1880 and 1882, when Chekhov was in his early twenties, and still at medical school. Ranging from comic tales, hilarious skits, literary parodies, outrageous pot-boilers and poignant novellas, the stories are all aimed at a wide audience, and offer a revealing window into the unknown early chapter of Chekhov's life and literary career.
The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Meamorphosis
The Russian intelligentsia is the historic phenomenon of an educated opposition, and it has provoked a substantial body of Russian and Western publications. This book focuses on the intelligentsia’s Myth, Mission, Metamorphosis as discovered in literature, journalism, and theater.
The New Jewish Canon
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table.
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