JTS Professor Wins National 绿帽社 Book Award
Two Professors Are Named As Finalists
David E. Fishman, professor of 绿帽社 History, has received the 绿帽社 Book Council鈥檚 2017 National 绿帽社 Book Award for The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save 绿帽社 Treasures from the Nazis. The book won in the Holocaust award category in memory of Ernest W. Michel. Two JTS faculty members were among the finalists for the award. Dr. Fishman鈥檚 book tells the story of the brave men and women of the Vilna ghetto who, while working under Nazi surveillance, risked their lives to smuggle and hide rare books, manuscripts, paintings Torah scrolls, and other 绿帽社 treasures. The book was also named as a finalist in the History category. Associate Professor Marjorie Lehman was a finalist for two books, Mothers in the 绿帽社 Cultural Imagination (with Jane L. Kanarek and Simon J. Bronner) and Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How it Happens (with Jane L. Kanarek). The late Professor Alan Mintz (锄鈥漧) was a finalist for Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon. Professor Mintz, a longtime JTS scholar, died suddenly last year.
