Jeremy Dauber

Jeremy 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. [ [ http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29836] ]

In 2008, he was named acting director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia. [ [ http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29836] ] [ [http://www.nysun.com/article/72591 Scholar of Yiddish Named To Lead Columbia Institute - March 10, 2008 - The New York Sun ] ] [ [http://sandbox.blog-city.com/confusion_at_columbia.htm Confusion at Columbia [Martin Kramer's Sandbox ] ]

Dauber is a 1990 graduate of the Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey. He graduated from Harvard College in 1995 summa cum laude and did his doctoral work at Oxford. [ [http://www.92y.org/shop/detail.asp?productid=T-BL5LL04 Search Our Site - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY ] ]

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. [ [http://www.92y.org/shop/detail.asp?productid=T-BL5LL04 Search Our Site - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY ] ]

"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. 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.” [ [ http://www.ujc.org/page.html?ArticleID=26195] ]

Daubert’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.

Books

*Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (Stanford University Press, 2004)
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/APTRAN.html "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

Prizes and Awards

Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford from 1996 to 1999

References