David E. Fishman, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, is giving Transylvania University's Moosnick Lecture on Nov. 20.

The public is invited to the annual event at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater. Fishman will also give a talk Nov. 21 at Ohavay Zion Synagogue. Reserve tickets to each event.

During his lecture at Transylvania, he will discuss "The Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto: Jewish Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust."

Fishman is director of Project Judaica, a partnership between the Jewish Theological Seminary and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. The academic program trains future leaders in Ukrainian Jewish communities, specialists in Jewish history and culture, and makes related archives accessible to researchers, according to JTS.

A member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Academic Committee, Fishman has written many books and articles on the culture and history of East European Jewry.

His 2017 release "The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis," was praised by Kirkus Reviews as "first-rate scholarship that pulses with the beat of a most human heart." His other books include "Russia's First Modern Jews" and "The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture."

The evening after Fishman's talk at Transylvania, he will discuss "The Jews and the War in Ukraine" at the synagogue.

The Moosnick Lectureship in Judaic Studies is also made possible in partnership with the Lexington Theological Seminary and Temple Adath Israel.