Indexing, Editing, and Proofreading Projects Freelance Indexing Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People by Mikhail Krutikov Publisher: University of Indiana Press, 2019 Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe edited by Francesca Bregoli and David B. Ruderman Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018 Printing the Talmud by Marvin J. Heller Publisher: Brill, 2018 Hasdai Crescas's Or Adonai (Light of the Lord) translated and annotated by Roslyn Weiss Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018 Pirkei Avot Lev Shalem: The Wisdom of Our Sages Martin S. Cohen, editor Publisher: Rabbinical Assembly, 2018 A Life of Meaning edited by Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2018 Biblical Narratives of Israelites and Their Neighbors: Strangers at the Gate by Adriane Leveen Publisher: Routledge, 2017 The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring by Paul Beston Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017 Ve-Eleh Divrei David: Selected Studies of S. David Sperling on Semitic Philology, Hebrew Bible and the History of Jewish Bible Scholarship by S. David Sperling Publisher: Brill, 2017 THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: 1936–2016. Menachem Z. Rosensaft, editor Publisher: World Jewish Congress, Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S. Y. Agnon by Alan Mintz Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2017 A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz by David I. Shyovitz Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017 Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible: The Ways the Bible Challenges Its Gender Norms by Amy Kalmanofsky Publisher: Routledge, 2017 Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity by Ismar Schorsch Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece by Devin E. Naar Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2016 Winner: 2016 National Jewish Book Award, The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material Gates of Shabbat: A Guide for Observing Shabbat. by Rabbi Mark Dov Shapiro Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2016 Divrei Mishkan HaNefesh: A Guide to the CCAR Machzor. Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, editor Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2016 Lingering Bilingualism by Naomi Brenner Publisher: Syracurse University Press, 2015 Intra-Industry Trade: Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Political Economy by Cameron Thies and Timothy Peterson Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2015 Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition by Benjamin D. Sommer Publisher: Yale University Press, 2015 Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race by Tiffany D. Joseph Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2015 Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism by Shaul Magid Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2014 Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967 by Emily Katz Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2014 Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 by Liora Halperin Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014 Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine by Lital Levy Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014 Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform by Francesca Bregoli Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2014 Finalist: 2014 National Jewish Book Award, Sephardic Culture The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt by Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2014 Finalist: 2014 National Jewish Book Award, Sephardic Culture Hitchcock and Contemporary Art by Christine Sprengler Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible by Amy Kalmanofsky Publisher: Fortress Press, 2014 Mishkan Moeid: A Guide to the Jewish Seasons Peter S. Knobel, editor Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2013 Dressed as in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in an Age of Reform by Kimberly Wahl Publisher: University Press of New England, 2013 Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book by Marvin J. Heller Publisher: Brill, 2013 Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide by David G. Roskies and Naomi Diamant Publisher: Brandeis University Press and The University Press of New England, 2012 The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941 by Azriel Shohet. Edited by Mark Jay Mirsky and Moshe Rosman Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2012 Jewish Concepts of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction. Benjamin D. Sommer, editor Publisher: New York University Press, 2012 Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa by David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2012 Finalist: 2012 National Jewish Book Award, Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship The Unfolding Tradition: Philosophies of Jewish Law by Elliot N. Dorff Publisher: Aviv Press, 2011 Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience by Bassam Haddad Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2011 Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry by Alan Mintz Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2012 Forsaken: The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism by Sharon Faye Koren Publisher: Brandeis University Press and The University Press of New England, 2011 Swans, Swine, and Swindlers: Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes by Can M. Alpaslan and Ian I. Mitroff Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2011 Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg by Debra Kaplan Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2011 Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe by Shachar Pinsker Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2011 The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus by Marvin J. Heller Publisher: Brill, 2011 Journey to Heaven: Exploring Jewish Views of the Afterlife by Leila Leah Bronner Publisher: Urim Publications, 2011 From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking by Dan Miron Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2010 Winner: 2010 National Jewish Book Award, Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship The Book of Amos in Emergent Judah by Jason Radine Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2010 Glorious, Accursed Europe: An Essay on Jewish Ambivalence by Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov Shavit Publisher: Brandeis University Press and The University Press of New England, 2010 Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely by Ian I. Mitroff and Abraham Silvers Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2010 The Invention of Hebrew by Seth Sanders Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2009 Finalist: 2009 National Jewish Book Award, Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship How Hebrew Poetry Thinks: Hermeneutic Studies in Israeli Mystical Poetry by Aubrey Glazer Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009 Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film by Christine Sprengler Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2009 "And You Shall Teach Them Diligently": A Concise History of Jewish Education in the United States 1776-2000 by Gilbert Graff Publisher: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2008 Seeing with Both Eyes: Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish Renaissance by Leonard S. Levin Publisher: Brill, 2008 The Torah: A Women's Commentary Publisher: Union for Reform Judaism Press, 2008 Winner: 2008 National Jewish Book of the Year Award The Song of the Distant Dove by Raymond P. Scheindlin Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007 The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880 by Mordechai Nadav. Edited by Mark Jay Mirsky and Moshe Rosman Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2007 Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice by Curtiss Paul DeYoung Publisher: Fortress Press, 2007 Down the Up Staircase: Tales of Teaching in Jewish Day Schools by Carol K. Ingall Publisher: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2006 The Education of Jews and the American Community: 1840 to the New Millennium by Eduardo Rauch Publisher: Tel Aviv University, 2004 Indexes for Computer Software Manuals (Print and Online) 1995-2005: As a permanent employee of two prominent computer software companies, performed indexing and trained others to index. Created or edited indexes to over 50 print and online technical manuals, including an online index to a master documentation set. Developed and delivered over 20 indexing workshops to technical writers and editors. 1988-1995: Editor/Indexing analyst for the Canadian Periodical Index: print, online, and CD versions. Freelance Developmental/Copy Editing and Proofreading Luah Hashanah 5772–5780 (9 annual editions) by Miles B. Cohen and Leslie Rubin Publisher: Miles B. Cohen, 2011-2019 Developmental Editing Tradition, Interpretation, and Change: Developments in the Liturgy of Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz by Kenneth E. Berger Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press, 2019 For Our Grandkids by Phil Sunshine Publisher: self-published, 2016 Jewish Magic by Daliah Mizrahi, dissertation, 2015 Sorrows and Songs: The Sway of an Ad Man by Janice Wood Wetzel Publisher: Fullarton Press, 2015 Ottoman Sephardic Communal Identity as Manifested in the Levirate Marriage Discourse by Binyamin Cohen, dissertation, 2014 A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 by Kathryn Hellerstein Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2014 Winner: 2014 National Jewish Book Award, Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies Business reports and articles for C3 Corporation (2011-current) Copy Editing and Proofreading Printing the Talmud by Marvin J. Heller Publisher: Brill, 2018 THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: 1936–2016. Menachem Z. Rosensaft, editor Publisher: World Jewish Congress, 2017 Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S. Y. Agnon by Alan Mintz Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2017 Divrei Mishkan HaNefesh: A Guide to the CCAR Machzor. Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, editor Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2016 The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate. Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, editors Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2016 Winner: 2016 National Jewish Book Award, Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies Ta Shma Come and Learn halakhic source guides Publisher: Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), 2016 From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah: Tannaitic Inheritance Law in Its Legal and Social Contexts by Jonathan Milgram Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2016 Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs by Tamir Sorek Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2015 For Our Grandkids by Phil Sunshine Publisher: self-published, 2016 Jewish Magic by Daliah Mizrahi, dissertation, 2015 Sorrows and Songs: The Sway of an Ad Man by Janice Wood Wetzel Publisher: Fullarton Press, 2015 Ottoman Sephardic Communal Identity as Manifested in the Levirate Marriage Discourse by Binyamin Cohen, dissertation, 2014 Lights in the Forest: Rabbis Respond to Twelve Essential Jewish Questions. Paul Citrin, editor Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2014 A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 by Kathryn Hellerstein Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2014 Winner: 2014 National Jewish Book Award, Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Two by Pauline Wengeroff; translated with an Introduction, Notes, and Commentary by Shulamit S. Magnus Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2014 What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire by Noam Yuran Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2014 Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible by Amy Kalmanofsky Publisher: Fortress Press, 2014 Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business by Leslie Levine Adler and Meryll Levine Page Publisher: Salt Mine Books, 2013 Mishkan Moeid: A Guide to the Jewish Seasons. Peter S. Knobel, editor Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2013 The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941 by Azriel Shohet. Edited by Mark Jay Mirsky and Moshe Rosman Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2012 Jewish Concepts of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction. Benjamin D. Sommer, editor Publisher: New York University Press, 2012 Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry by Alan Mintz Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2012 Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools by Jeffrey S. Kress Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2012 Winner: 2012 National Jewish Book Award, Education and Jewish Identity The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth Commentary by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society, 2011 Winner: 2011 National Jewish Book Award, Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies On Flexibility: Recovery From Technological and Doctrinal Surprise on the Battlefield by Meir Finkel Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2011 The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus by Marvin J. Heller Publisher: Brill, 2011 From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener by Mikhail Krutikov Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2011 From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking by Dan Miron Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2010 Winner: 2010 National Jewish Book Award, Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship Ramah at 60: Impact and Innovation. Mitchell Cohen and Jeffrey S. Kress, editors Publisher: National Ramah Commission, 2010 Finalist: 2010 National Jewish Book Award, Education and Jewish Identity Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One by Pauline Wengeroff; translated with an Introduction, Notes, and Commentary by Shulamit S. Magnus Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2010 Winner: 2010 National Jewish Book Award, Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies “Methodological Musings on the Study of Kelalei Pesak" by Jonathan Milgram Publisher: Journal of Jewish Studies 61:2, Autumn 2010 Thinking With Irigaray. Mary C. Rawlinson, Sabrina L. Hom, and Serene J. Khader, editors Publisher: SUNY Press, 2010 Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Metaphor in Biblical Prophecy by Job Y. Jindo (Harvard Semitic Monograph Series) Publisher: Eisenbrauns, 2010 Tiferet Yisrael: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Israel Francus Publisher: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2010 Money Matters Curriculum: Teacher materials, workbooks, and family lessons Publisher: Union for Reform Judaism Press, 2010 Ta Shma Come and Learn halakhic source guides Publisher: Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), 2008 The Jewish Woman's Prayer Book. Aliza Lavie, editor Publisher: Random House Doubleday, 2008 Winner: 2008 National Jewish Book Award, Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies Psalms of the Jewish Liturgy by Miriyam Glazer Publisher: Aviv Press, 2008 The Politics of Heaven by Joseph A. Marchal Publisher: Fortress Press, 2008 Christ's Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor by Yung-Suk Kim Publisher: Fortress Press, 2008 The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire by Neil Elliott Publisher: Fortress Press, 2008 Apostle to the Vanquished: Rethinking Paul's Mission by Davina C. Lopez Publisher: Fortress Press, 2008 The Torah: A Women's Commentary Publisher: Union for Reform Judaism Press, 2007 From Jesus to the Gospels by Helmut Koester Publisher: Fortress Press, 2007 The Messiah. Magnus Zetterholm, editor Publisher: Fortress Press, 2007 Tracing the Footsteps of God by C. S. Song Publisher: Fortress Press, 2007 Articles for Health Affairs, the leading peer-reviewed journal of health policy thought and research (2011-2013) Quarterly newsletters and reports published by Alliance Bernstein, a financial services firm (2010-2013) Education materials (semiannually) published by UMI (Urban Ministries Inc.) (2011-2012) IJFAB: The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Publisher: Indiana University Press (2007-2009) 1988-2006: As a permanent employee of four high tech companies, wrote/edited numerous software user guides and training manuals. 1997-1998: Edited a monthly newsletter, wrote policies and procedures manuals, and prepared miscellaneous publications for a large non-profit organization. Training Projects 2004–2005: Developed and delivered over 20 indexing workshops to technical writers and editors. 2006: Developed and delivered several editing workshops and communication skills training sessions. 2007: Delivered business communication skills training to a Canadian service organization. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - More about Leslie:  » About  » Services  » References

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