David Fishman is an American academic and author. He is a professor of Jewish History at the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a Conservative Jewish education organization in New York City, New York. It is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studi ...
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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
The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. ''The Book Smugglers'' explores the desperate, clandestine effort to preserve rare Jewish books from destruction by the
Nazis
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during the
Holocaust
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Biography
Fishman is the son of the linguist
Joshua Fishman
Joshua Fishman ( Yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן — Shikl Fishman; July 18, 1926 – March 1, 2015) was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity. ...
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After graduating from
Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City."About YU on the Yeshiva Universi ...
with an AB, Fishman earned a PhD at
Harvard University
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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
Joseph Ber Soloveitchik ( he, יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק ''Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik''; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion o ...
The Forward
''The Forward'' ( yi, פֿאָרווערטס, Forverts), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ...