Authors Scott Pitoniak ’77 and ’80 will share highlights from the book and will be available for book signing at Bird Library on Friday, Sept. 13,  from 4 to 5:30 p.m. as part of .

Pitoniak, a nationally honored columnist and best-selling author, and Burton, a coauthor of numerous books and the David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in the Falk College, have utilized exhaustive research, scores of interviews and their own Syracuse University experiences to craft a book that explores what it has meant to be Orange since the institution’s founding as a small liberal arts college in 1870.

“Forever Orange” illuminates Syracuse University’s chronological history, with special focus on how the University led the way in numerous important matters—gender, race, military veterans and science—going far beyond the parameters of a traditional institutional history. Through narrative and hundreds of photos, “Forever Orange” presents the University’s glorious 150-year history in a lively, distinctive, informative manner, appealing to alumni and University friends, young and old.

The foreword is written by astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force Col. Eileen Collins ’78, with the afterword by Pro Football Hall of Famer Floyd Little ’67.

Submissions are welcome from diverse authors across disciplines, traditions and orientations, but with special emphasis on the Haudenosaunee.

The series will be led by Philip P. Arnold and Scott Manning Stevens. Arnold is associate professor and chair of the Department of Religion in the , and a core faculty member of the ; he is also the founding director of the Skä·noñh—Great Law of Peace Center. Stevens is associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as associate professor of Native American and Indigenous studies and director of the program.

For queries, contact acquisitions editor Peggy Solic at masolic@syr.edu.

To kick off the publication, the press is offering the University community a pre-publication discount of 44 percent off the list price of $99.95 until July 10.

“Forever Orange” illuminates Syracuse University’s chronological history, with special focus on how Syracuse led the way in numerous important matters—gender, race, military veterans and science—going far beyond the parameters of a traditional institutional history. Through narrative and hundreds of photos, “Forever Orange” presents Syracuse’s glorious 150-year history in a lively, distinctive, informative manner, appealing to alumni and University friends, young and old.

The foreword is written by astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force Col. Eileen Collins ’78, with the afterword by Pro Football Hall of Famer Floyd Little ’67.

Authors Scott Pitoniak ’77, a nationally honored columnist and best-selling author, and ’80, a coauthor of numerous books and the David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in the Falk College, have utilized exhaustive research, scores of interviews and their own Syracuse University experiences to craft a book that explores what it has meant to be Orange since the institution’s founding as a small liberal arts college in 1870.

To pre-order “Forever Orange” visit  or call 800.848.6224. To receive the special 44 percent discount, make sure to use code 05SAVE44 and order before the code expires on July 10, 2019.

The MLA prize is awarded each even-numbered year and is given alternately to an outstanding translation of a Yiddish literary work and to an outstanding scholarly work in English in the field of Yiddish. The MLA and its 24,000 members in 100 countries work to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and literature.

The MLA committee’s citation for Frakes’s book reads:

“In ‘Early Yiddish Epic,’ Jerold C. Frakes uses his vast and precise historical and philological knowledge of Old Yiddish to render the great epic texts written in that language into lucid, vivid, and compelling English prose…. ‘Early Yiddish Epic’ is a field-changing book in the strictest sense of that term; now that these long-neglected works are available in English translation, the study of Yiddish literature will experience a shift in its center of gravity.”

Frakes is SUNY Distinguished Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, where he has taught since 2006. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Memphis State University and an M.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Minnesota. He is author of six books.

“Early Yiddish Epic” was published by the Syracuse University Press in the .

“Vilna My Vilna: Stories” by Abraham Karpinowitz,  a translation from the Yiddish by Vancouver translator Helen Mintz, is a portrait of the Jerusalem of Lithuania. The stories of fishwives, cobblers, criminals and roustabouts preserves the particular language of Vilna’s working-class Jews. In this deft depiction of a now-vanished world, Mintz gracefully maintains the colorful idiomatic Yiddish for English language readers.

The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards was founded by a group of prominent writers, editors and scholars to celebrate the vibrancy of Jewish literature and culture in Canada.

“Vilna My Vilna” was also selected as the Winner of the “2016 Translation Award for a Book on a  Jewish Theme” awarded by the J.I. Segal Committee of the Jewish Public Library in Quebec. The J.I. Segal Awards of the Jewish Public Library are made possible by the J.I. Segal Cultural Foundation, founded by the late Dr. Hirsh Rosenfeld and Dvora Rosenfeld. They were established in 1968 to honour and perpetuate the memory of the great Yiddish-Canadian poet J.I. Segal and to foster Jewish cultural creativity in Canada.

Google launched its long-awaited Google eBooks on Dec. 6, which includes a redesigned Google Books page, featuring both a store where consumers can find and buy ebooks, and a research option for those who wish to search and use the repository. It also includes a Google web reader, and apps for both Apple and Android devices, which are available for free. 

Google’s cloud-based eBooks can be accessed and read anywhere, on any device with a modern, HTML5-enabled browser, whether desktop computers, laptops, netbooks or tablets, or via apps for iPhones, iPads and Android-powered Smartphones. 

Because it is an open platform, Google eBooks () will also be accessible on any e-reader that is based on an open platform, like ePub, including, the Sony Reader and the B&N Nook. 

Available at the Google eBookstore are a variety of SU Press books, ranging from “Slices of Orange: A Collection of Memorable Games and Performers in Syracuse University Sports History,” to “Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion and Modernity.” 

Each year, SU Press publishes new and groundbreaking books in specialized areas, including New York state, Middle East studies, judaica, geography, Irish studies, Native American studies, religion, television and popular culture. 

For more information, contact Mona Hamlin at the Syracuse University Press at (315) 443-5547, or mhamlin@syr.edu.

The book details how, in 1950, future Hall of Famer Earl Lloyd became the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game. One of three African Americans to enter the NBA at that time, Lloyd played seven games for the Washington Capitals before the team folded. He joined the Syracuse Nationals for six seasons and later played for the Detroit Pistons before he retired in 1961. In a series of extraordinary conversations with Kirst, Lloyd reveals his fierce determination to succeed, his frustration with the plight of many young black men, and his sincere desire for the nation to achieve true equality among its citizens.

Kirst will discuss the book and his interactions with Lloyd Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. at Borders Books in Carousel Center; at the Onondaga Historical Association Feb. 7 at 2 p.m.; and at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in DeWitt on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. All of the book discussions are open to the public.

For more information on the book, visit or e-mail Mona Hamlin at mhamlin@syr.edu.