Recent Brandeis University Press titles win awards

Books published by Brandeis University Press recently won two awards:

Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back by Noam Zadoff of Indiana University has won the 2018 Concordia University Azrieli Institute for Best Book in Israel Studies Award (under the auspices of the I.J. Segal Awards of the Jewish Public Library). Gershom Scholem is published as part of BUP’s Tauber Institute Series.

It is the fourth time in eight years that a book published by Brandeis University Press has won this biennial award. Previous winners include: Land and Desire, by Boaz Neumann; Israel: A History by Anita Shapira; and Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 by Hillel Cohen, all published in the Schusterman Series for Israel Studies. 

A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli State by Orit Rozin of Tel Aviv University was named this year’s finalist in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards. The awards, given by the Association for Jewish Studies, recognize and promote outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies and honor scholars whose work embodies the best in the field: innovative research, excellent writing, and sophisticated methodology. In 2015, the BUP-published Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848, by Sven Erik Rose was awarded the  2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought. A home for All Jews was published as part of the Schusterman Series in Israel Studies & Brandeis Series in Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law.