Glenn Dynner

(1969-04-11) April 11, 1969

Maryland, United States

Historian, Academic, Author

Antony Polonsky

Jewish History and Religion

Social History of Hasidism and the Haskala; Holocaust

Sarah Lawrence College

http://gdynner.com

Education[edit]

Dynner received his B.A. in Comparative History from Brandeis University in 1993, his M.A. in Jewish Studies from McGill University in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern & Judaic Studies from Brandeis University in 2002 (supervised by Antony Polonsky). He works primarily in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew sources on the Jewish social and religious history in Poland, and specializes in the Hasidic movement.

Media appearances[edit]

In 2011, Dynner appeared on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? with actress Gwyneth Paltrow.[2] Throughout the episode, Dynner helps Gwyneth Paltrow uncover her ancestral Jewish past. On the same show and its spin-offs, he also consulted on the Rashida Jones and Bernie Sanders episodes.

(2013). Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-998852-5.

Glenn Dynner

(2008). Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538265-5.

Glenn Dynner

Glenn Dynner, ed. (2011). . Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-814-33597-0. Archived from the original on 2022-08-15. Retrieved 2021-12-22.

Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe

Glenn Dynner, ed. (2015). . The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. ISBN 978-1-906-76421-0.

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry: Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1914 Volume 27

Glenn Dynner, ed. (2015). Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky. Brill Academic Pub.  978-9-004-29181-2.

ISBN

2019 -

Guggenheim Fellowship

2017 - Senior Research Scholar at Library's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies[10]

Yale University

2016 - The American Jewish (JDC) Fred and Ellen Lewis Archives Fellowship[11]

Joint Distribution Committee

2013–2014 - (NEH) Senior Scholar, Center for Jewish History[12]

National Endowment for the Humanities

2013–2014 - Trustee Faculty Development Fund,

Sarah Lawrence College

2009 - , Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (CAJS) Fellowship theme: “Jews and Commerce”[13]

University of Pennsylvania

2006 - Finalist for Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society (Oxford University Press, 2008)

National Jewish Book Awards

2004 - for Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society (Oxford University Press, 2008)[14]

Koret Jewish Book Award

2000 - Tauber Institute of Modern Jewish Studies Fellowship,

Brandeis University

1999 - U.S. (Warsaw, Poland)

Fulbright Award

Teaching[edit]

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.[15]

Personal[edit]

Dynner's father Alan Roy Dynner is the former VP of Eaton Vance.

Archived 2019-02-16 at the Wayback Machine

Sarah Lawrence College faculty page

Archived 2019-04-04 at the Wayback Machine

Academia.edu Glenn Dynner

Archived 2019-03-01 at the Wayback Machine

Glenn Dynner, Ph.D. Personal Website

Archived 2019-03-01 at the Wayback Machine

Glenn Dynner's Oral History