26 Undergraduate Faculty Authors To Be Honored at Nov. 15 Ceremony Faculty members at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva College and Sy Syms School of Business who have authored books published during 2009 and 2010 will be honored at a special Faculty Book Celebration on Monday, November 15 at 6 p.m. at the Jerome and Geraldine Schottenstein Residence Hall, Beren Campus, 119-121 East 29th Street (Lexington Ave.), New York City. The ceremony will include remarks by Provost Morton Lowengrub and the deans of all three schools, as well as an opportunity to meet with many of the authors and purchase their books. To RSVP, please contact fousek@yu.edu. A library display of all the faculty publications will run from Nov. 10-Nov. 17 at the Hedi Steinberg Library, Beren Campus, 245 Lexington Avenue, New York City.

The following list includes the diverse new books authored by full-time faculty members that will be honored at the celebration:

Peter Achinstein, Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein University Professor of Philosophy Evidence, Explanation, and Realism: Essays in Philosophy of Science New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Joseph Angel, Assistant Professor of Bible, Yeshiva College Otherworldly and Eschatological Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls Leiden: Brill, 2010 David Berger, Ruth & I. Lewis Gordon Professor of Jewish History Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2010 Barbara Blatner, Lecturer, Department of English, Yeshiva College The Still Position, a verse memoir of my mother’s death New York: New York Quarterly Books, 2010 Douglas R. Burgess, Jr., Assistant Professor, History, Stern College and Yeshiva College The World for Ransom: Piracy Is Terrorism, Terrorism Is Piracy Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010 Wenxiong Chen, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yeshiva College Methods of Nonlinear Elliptic Equations (with Congming Li) Springfield, MO: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2010 Jeffrey S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, Stern College Orthodox Jews in America Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009 Richard Hidary, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Stern College Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2010 Shalom E. Holtz, Assistant Professor of Bible, Yeshiva College Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure Leiden: Brill, 2009 Elazar Hurvitz, Dr. Samuel Belkin Professor of Judaic Studies (BRGS), Yeshiva College The Cairo Geniza Fragments in the Westminster College Library New York: Cairo Geniza Institute of Yeshiva University, 2009 Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, Stern College Soldering the Abyss: Emily Dickinson and Modern American Poetry, Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2010 Transmigration: Poems Riverdale, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 2009 Psalms Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2010 Coming to Life Riverdale, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 2010 Michelle J. Levine, Associate Professor of Bible, Stern College Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2009 Joseph Luders, David & Ruth Gottesman Associate Professor of Political Science, Stern College The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 Matt Miller, Assistant Professor of English, Stern College Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010 Mitchell Orlian, Associate Professor of Bible, Yeshiva College Sefer ha-Gan, by R. Aharon ben R. Yosi ha-Kohen, 13th century Jerusalem: Mosad Harav Kuk, 2009 Moses Pava, Alvin Einbender Professor of Business Ethics, Sy Syms School of Business Jewish Ethics as Dialogue: Using Spiritual Language to Re-Imagine a Better World New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Daniel Rynhold, Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Yeshiva College An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy London: I.B. Tauris, 2009 Samuel Schneider, Associate Professor of Hebrew, Yeshiva College Existence and Memory in the Writing of Aharon Appelfeld, Yosef Chaim Brenner and Other Hebrew Writers Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing Co., 2010 Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History, Stern College and Yeshiva College The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University New York: The New Press, 2010 David Shatz, Professor of Philosophy, Stern College Jewish Thought in Dialogue: Essays on Thinkers, Theologies and Moral Theories Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2010 Linda M. Shires, Professor of English, Stern College Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England Columbus: Ohio State University Press; 2nd ed., 2009 Reeva Spector Simon, Professor of History, Stern College and Yeshiva College Spies and Holy Wars: The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010 Gillian Steinberg, Assistant Professor of English, Yeshiva College Philip Larkin and his Audiences New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 Elizabeth Stewart, Associate Professor of English, Yeshiva College Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis New York: Continuum, 2009 Hayim Tawil, Professor of Hebrew, Yeshiva College Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex (with Bernard Schneider) Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2010 Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew Jersey Cityk: Ktav, 2009 Cynthia Wachtell, Research Associate Professor of American Studies War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914 Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010