In addition to our booth in the AJS exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space to showcase our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Jewish Studies at SUP.
Virtual Exhibit
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off on listed SUP Jewish Studies titles with discount code S23XAJS through our virtual exhibit ».
Recent Award Winners
Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa »
AOMAR BOUM, ILLUSTRATED BY NADJIB BERBER
- Gold Medal in the Graphic Novel/Drawn Book Category for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–195 »
EDITED BY AOMAR BOUM AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN
- Winner of the 2023 Best Historical Materials Award, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Winner of the 2023 Annual Reference Award, sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries.
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity »
SONIA GOLLANCE
- Finalist of the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, Modern Jewish Thought & Experience category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War »
SHAY HAZKANI
- Longlisted in the 2021 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University and the Cundill Foundation.
- Winner of the 2022 Korenblat Book Award in Israel Studies, sponsored by the Cherrick Center for the study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel.
- Winner of the 2023 Award for Best Book in Israel Studies, sponsored by Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies / Concordia University Library.
The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging »
ALMA RACHEL HECKMAN
- Named a 2021 Best Book of the Year by Middle East Eye.
Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (The Great Assembly) of the Zohar »
MELILA HELLNER-ESHED
- Finalist in the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, Scholarship category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora »
DEVI MAYS
- Winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards, Sephardic Culture category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
- Winner of the 2021 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
- Winner of the 2021 Jordan Schnitzer Prize in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania; sponsored by the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS).
- Winner of the 2021 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies, sponsored by the Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies.
Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 »
NATAN M. MEIR
- Winner of the 2021 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Finalist in the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards (History category), sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 DHA Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Disability History Association.
Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and
HAGGAI RAM
- Co-winner of the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies Award, sponsored by Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia University Library.
- Winner of the 2020-21 Rorabaugh Book Prize for the Best Book in the History of Alcohol and Drugs, sponsored by the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS).
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa »
CHRISTOPHER SILVER
- Winner of the 2023 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies, sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS).
- Received the Certificate of Merit for the 2023 Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, sponsored by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.
SAMUEL J. SPINNER
- Co-Winner of the 2022 Germanic Languages and Literatures - Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, sponsored by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
ALAN VERSKIN
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, sponsored by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem »
YAIR WALLACH
- Winner of the 2022 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, sponsored by the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS).
AJS Resources
We welcome inquiries from prospective authors, instructions for submitting book proposals to SUP are available online.
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