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Elisha Russ Fishbane

Elisha Russ-Fishbane is an assistant professor in New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. He is the author of Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times (Oxford University Press).

Winter 2017

A Brand Rescued from the Fire

By: Elisha Russ-Fishbane

Leon Chameides has painstakingly collected his father’s writings from the fateful years of 1930s Polish Jewry, before the break-up of his family and the collapse of Jewish life in Nazi Europe.