Demsky is the winner of the 2014 Bialik Prize for his book, Literacy in Ancient Israel.[3][2][4]
Books
Pleasant are Their Names: Jewish Names in the Sephardi Diaspora, University of Maryland Press, 2010 ISBN9781934309247
These are the names : studies in Jewish onomastics, with Joseph A. Reif, Joseph Tabory. Bar-Ilan University Press, 1997. ISBN9652261920 (v. 1), 9652262269 (v. 2)
Yediʻat sefer be-Yiśraʼel ba-ʻet ha-ʻatiḳah, Mosad Byaliḳ, 2012. ISBN9789655360462