Jeremy Dauber
| Jeremy Dauber | |
|---|---|
| Residence | New York, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Yiddish literature |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University University of Oxford |
| Notable awards | Rhodes Scholarship |
Jeremy A. Dauber is the Atran Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University, specializing in Yiddish literature.[1]
In 2008, he was named acting director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia.[1][2][3] In 2009, he was named an inaugural member of the Shalom Hartman Institute North American Scholars Circle.[4]
A native of Teaneck, New Jersey, Dauber attended Yavneh Academy and is a 1990 graduate of the Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey.[5] He graduated from Harvard College in 1995 summa cum laude and did his doctoral work at Oxford.[6]
He writes a column on television and movies for the Christian Science Monitor that was recognized by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2003.[6]
The Jewish Week has described Dauber’s rapid ascent to a position of influence in Yiddish letters, “Within a year of completing his doctorate in Yiddish literature at Oxford University, Jeremy Dauber returned to the United States, found a job heading the Yiddish studies program at Columbia University, and was invited by the National Yiddish Book Center to manage its ambitious compilation of a list of the 100 greatest works of modern Jewish literature.[7] Suddenly the 27-year-old assistant professor of Germanic languages and literatures found himself in a significant position to influence the future of a field that wasn't much older than he was.” [8]
Dauber's research interests include Yiddish literature of the early modern period, Hebrew and Yiddish literature of the nineteenth century, the Yiddish theater, and American Jewish literature.
Dauber is co-editor of the journal Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.[9]
Books
- Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (Stanford University Press, 2004)
- The Range of Yiddish: A Catalog of an Exhibition from the Yiddish Collection of the Harvard College Library, Marion Aptroot and Jeremy Dauber, Harvard University Press, 2005.
- Yiddish Plays (SUNY Press, 2006) co-editor and -translator, with Joel Berkowitz
- The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye (Schocken, 2013)
Prizes and awards
Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford from 1996 to 1999
References
- 1 2
- ↑ Scholar of Yiddish Named To Lead Columbia Institute - March 10, 2008 - The New York Sun
- ↑ Confusion at Columbia [Martin Kramer's Sandbox]
- ↑
- ↑ Palmer, Joanne. "Jewish humor or Jewish horror; Columbia's Dr. Jeremy Dauber, onetime Teaneck boy, speaks in Fort Lee", New Jersey Jewish Standard, June 2, 2016. Accessed June 2, 2016.
- 1 2 Search Our Site - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY
- ↑ http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/100-greatest-works
- ↑
- ↑ "Prooftexts". Indiana University Press. Retrieved 4 September 2016.