David Fishman

David Fishman is an American academic and author. He is a professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Fishman's 2017 book, The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, won the 2017 National Jewish Book Award, in the Holocaust category.[1][2] The Book Smugglers explores the desperate, clandestine effort to preserve rare Jewish books from destruction by the Nazis during the Holocaust.[3][4]

Biography

Fishman is the son of the linguist Joshua Fishman.[5]

After graduating from Yeshiva University with an AB, Fishman earned a PhD at Harvard University.

Bibliography

Books
  • The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, (ForeEdge, 2017)
  • Russia's First Modern Jews, (New York University Press, 1996)
  • The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).

Edited volumes
  • From Mesopotamia to Modernity: Ten Introductions to Jewish History and Literature, co-editor with Burton Visotzky, (Westview Press, 1999),
  • Droshes un ksovim, a volume of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Yiddish writings, (Ktav, 2009).

References
  1. Zax, Talya (10 January 2018). "National Jewish Book Awards: Golda Meir Biography, David Grossman Win Big". The Forward. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  3. Krutikov, Mikhail (18 January 2018). "How Vilna's Jews Rescued Their Books From the Nazis (book review)". The Forward. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. Lane, Gary (27 March 2018). "How Christians Risked Their Lives to Save Jewish Treasures During the Holocaust". Christian Broadcasting Network. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  5. "Joshua Fishman (1926-2015)". yivo.org. YIVO. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
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