Glenn Davis Dynner (born April 11, 1969) is an American author and historian specializing in religion and history of East European Jewry.
He works primarily in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew sources on the Jewish social and religious history in Poland, and specializes in the Hasidic movement.
[2] Throughout the episode, Dynner helps Gwyneth Paltrow uncover her ancestral Jewish past.
Dynner teaches numerous upper-level seminars at Sarah Lawrence covering the history of Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
In the past, his classes included: The Holocaust, Jews and Violence: From the Bible to the Present, and First-Year Studies: Jewish Spirituality and Culture.