David E. Fishman is an American academic and author.
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.
[5] His aunt was the poet Rukhl Fishman.
[6] After graduating from Yeshiva University with an AB, Fishman earned a PhD at Harvard University.