Moosnick Lectureship in Judaic Studies Presents: David E. Fishman
David E. Fishman is a professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He also serves as director of Project Judaica, JTS’s program in Ukraine, which is based at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Among its various activities, Project Judaica publishes guides to Jewish materials in Ukrainian archives.
Dr. Fishman is the author of numerous books and articles on the history and culture of East European Jewry. His most recent book, The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, has been hailed as “Monuments Men for book lovers” and “first rate scholarship that pulses with the beat of a most human heart.” His previous books include Russia’s First Modern Jews and The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture. Dr. Fishman has edited two volumes of the Yiddish writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and is currently the editor of the bi-weekly newsletter The War in Ukraine: Jewish News.
He is a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A native New Yorker, Dr. Fishman travels frequently to Ukraine and Eastern Europe for lecturing, research and administration of Project Judaica.
Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m.
“The Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto: Jewish Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust”
Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center
Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m.
“The Jews and the War in Ukraine”
Ohavay Zion Synagogue