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 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. The Book Smugglers explores the desperate, clandestine effort to preserve rare Jewish books from destruction by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Biography Fishman is the son of the linguist Joshua Fishman. His aunt was the poet Rukhl Fishman.

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