David Altshuler is an American scholar and museum director.
Altshuler was the Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies at George Washington University.[1]
He was the founding director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, a position he held from 1984 until December 1999, when he left to become president of the Trust for Jewish Philanthropy.[2]
He was a curator of the exhibition, The Precious Legacy, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in 1983.[1]