Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Grant for Reissuing and Promoting 42 Slavic Studies Titles as Free Ebooks

The Borderlines Foundation is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded, in collaboration with Academic Studies Press, a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to reissue and market 42 of ASP's previously published titles in Slavic studies as freely available open-access ebooks. The grant is part of the NEH-Mellon Humanities Open Book initiative. In addition to the free ebooks, which will be released in the fall of 2017, ASP will also be releasing a new, low-cost paperback version of each book. The ebooks will be advertised widely in the Slavic studies community, including in all major journals, and through a full-color catalog. We are excited to collaborate with Academic Studies Press on this tremendous opportunity to distribute some of their most excellent previously published titles. Further details, including title selections, will follow.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Announces Grant for Contemporary Ukrainian Literature in English Translation Project

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced $79 million in grants for 290 humanities projects and programs across the United States.

Borderlines Foundation for Academic Studies is the recipient of $73,500 toward the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature in English Translation project. These funds will support the preparation for publication in print and open access digital format of two volumes of contemporary Ukrainian poetry, fiction, and essays, edited and translated into English.

See the NEH's full press release here: http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2016-08-09
 

New Project: The Road Not Taken? Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodox Judaism

Edited by Adam Ferziger (Bar Ilan University), Steven Bayme (American Jewish Committee), and Miri Freud-Kandel (Oxford University)

In the Summer of 2014, a group of sixteen scholars convened in Oxford for “Modern Orthodoxy and the Road Not Taken: A Critical Exploration of Questions Arising from the Thought of Rabbi Dr. Irving ‘Yitz’ Greenberg,”  In this volume, the scholars publish versions of the papers they presented.

Greenberg is an influential theologian who has had a wide-ranging career as a rabbi, historian, activist, author, and leader of several major Jewish organizations. He is a revolutionary thinker on an array of issues including the Jewish people’s encounter with the challenge of modernity; confronting the Holocaust as an historical transforming event; the creation of Israel as the Jewish assumption of power, and the beginning of a third era in Jewish history; and the importance of Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Contributors: Alan Brill, Arye Edrei, Adam Ferziger, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Samuel Heilman, Alan Jotkowitz, Miri Freud Kandel, Steven Katz, Rabbi Darren Kleinberg, Tamar Ross, Marc Shapiro, Jack Wertheimer

New Project: Contemporary Ukrainian Literature in English Translation A Collection in Two Volumes

The Borderlines Foundation for Academic Studies is proud to announce an unprecedented two-volume collection of post-Soviet Ukrainian literature in English translation. The first volume showcases a finely curated selection of Ukrainian poetry, fiction, and essays, which were originally selected to be part of the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series sponsored by the Harriman Institute (Columbia University) and the Kennan Institute (the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars). These works are products of the freedom unleashed by the Soviet Union’s disintegration. At the same time, many of these texts explore Ukraine’s post-colonial condition and the Soviet shadow’s continuing impact on efforts to define the Ukrainian identity in the twenty-first century. The second volume brings together for the first time in any language a collection of Ukrainian poetry about the current war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. These poems explore the war from a variety of perspectives and voices—from the front, the home, the hospital; from women and men; from Russian and Ukrainian speakers. Maps, drawings, and newspaper clippings will help contextualize the poems and help represent one of the first literary mosaics of the current Ukraine-Russia war. Both volumes will feature scholarly introductions and annotations, aimed at enriching the reading experience for a non-specialist audience. An online version of the edition will be made free to the public, while hardcover and paperback print versions will be published by Academic Studies Press.