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]
- ^ Zax, Talya (10 January 2018). "National Jewish Book Awards: Golda Meir Biography, David Grossman Win Big". The Forward. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Archived from the original on 2020-06-05. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ Krutikov, Mikhail (18 January 2018). "How Vilna's Jews Rescued Their Books From the Nazis (book review)". The Forward. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ Lane, Gary (27 March 2018). "How Christians Risked Their Lives to Save Jewish Treasures During the Holocaust". Christian Broadcasting Network. Retrieved 27 October 2018.