Glenn Dyn­ner is the Carl and Dorothy Ben­nett Pro­fes­sor of Juda­ic Stud­ies at Fair­field Uni­ver­si­ty, edi­tor of the jour­nal Sho­far: An Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Jour­nal of Jew­ish Stud­ies, and a recent Guggen­heim Fel­low. He is author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Con­quest of Pol­ish Jew­ish Soci­ety (OUP, 2006), and Yankel’s Tav­ern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the King­dom of Poland (OUP, 2013).