David Fishman Explained

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] His aunt was the poet Rukhl Fishman.^[6]

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)
• Jewish Documentary Sources in Lviv Archives: A Guide," co-editor with Alexander Ivanov. (Wroclav University Press with Dukh i Litera Publishing House, 2023).

External links

• Q&A: Remembering The Writers Who Defied The Nazis To Save Jewish Texts, by Talya Zax,9 January 2018, The Forward

Notes and References

1. News: Zax . Talya . National Jewish Book Awards: Golda Meir Biography, David Grossman Win Big . 27 October 2018 . . 10 January 2018.
2. Web site: Past Winners. Jewish Book Council. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200605121434/https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30757 . 2020-06-05 . 2020-01-21.
3. News: Krutikov . Mikhail . How Vilna's Jews Rescued Their Books From the Nazis (book review) . 27 October 2018 . . 18 January 2018.
4. News: Lane . Gary . How Christians Risked Their Lives to Save Jewish Treasures During the Holocaust . 27 October 2018 . . 27 March 2018.
5. Web site: Joshua Fishman (1926-2015) . yivo.org . . 26 October 2018.
6. Web site: My Aunt, Leftist Yiddish Poet, Rokhl Fishman . 2023-09-18 . Yiddish Book Center . en.