Over the past few years I have served as Managing Editor of Brown Judaic Studies (BJS), a scholarly monograph series. I am very excited to announce that after a few attempts, we have succeeded in obtaining a grant from the Mellon Foundation, through the Humanities Open Book Program run by the National Endowment for the Humanities, to digitize and make freely available over the internet electronic copies (in different formats, of about fifty titles from our back list. The press release is here. BJS was established about forty years ago as an outlet for (mostly) high-quality, usually specialized, scholarly monographs. Recently we began also to publish collections of scholarly papers, usually emerging from a conference or gathered as part of a Festschrift (a volume honoring an academic colleague). Although we publish only a few volumes each year, over the years we have accumulated a significant backlist and many of our older volumes remain foundational in several different areas within Judaic studies. We have also begun to develop projects that begin as invited lectured by distinguished scholars at Brown University (for our first publication as part of this initiative, see this book by Hasia Diner). As a publishing outlet, BJS is […]
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