David Fishman

David E. 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).