Glenn Dynner

Glenn Dynner, Ph.D., holds the Jay Berkowitz Chair in Jewish History at the University of Virginia. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society (Oxford University Press, 2006); <>Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor & Life in the Kingdom of Poland (Oxford University Press, 2014); and The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2024). He is also Co-Editor of the journal Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.