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Touro University is an independent institution of higher and professional education under Jewish sponsorship, established to perpetuate and enrich the Jewish heritage and to serve the larger community in keeping with the Judaic commitment to intellectual pursuit and service to humanity.

Touro University Press, in keeping with the mission of Touro University, seeks to publish scholarly works in the entire range of the liberal arts and sciences, with special attention to the areas of Jewish history and literature. 

Submissions are invited in a broad range of academic areas. We do not publish unrevised doctoral dissertations, textbooks, original fiction, original poetry, or children's books.

History

Touro University Press (TUP; previously Touro College Press) was established in 2007 with the publication of the first volume of a two-volume festschrift entitled Turim: Studies in Jewish History and Literature Presented to Dr. Bernard Lander. The editor of the festschrift, Dr. Michael Shmidman, Dean of the Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies, worked with KTAV Publishing House to release the books (2007-2008) under the imprint of Touro College Press. In 2012, Dr. Simcha Fishbane, Professor of Jewish Studies at the Graduate School, joined the Press as co-editor. At that time, TUP began to expand to encompass other disciplines in addition to Jewish Studies, and to increase the number of scholarly volumes published per year. Academic Studies Press was contracted to serve as typesetter, printer and distributor for TUP.

As of 2026, under the continuing editorship of Drs. Shmidman and Fishbane, and with the assistance of the Administrative Manager of the Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Karen Rubin, TUP has published nearly forty well-received volumes. While most focus upon areas of Jewish Studies, other volumes address scholarly issues in disciplines ranging from higher education and economics to law and paleontology. Authors and editors include Professors Hal Abramson, Arnon Atzmon, Judith Bleich, Sabra E. Brock, Yitzhak Cohen, Howard R. Feldman, Simcha Fishbane, Avraham Grossman, Steve Hochstadt, Nahem Ilan, Zvi Jonathan Kaplan, Eric Levine, Samuel J. Levine, Peter J. McAliney, Josef Mendelevich, Monty Noam Penkower, Lall Ramrattan, Ira Robinson, Michoel Rotenfeld, Patricia E. Salkin, Michael A. Shmidman, Moshe Sokol, Norman Strickman, Michael Szenberg, and Joseph Tabory.