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 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]
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.[5]
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.[5]
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.[6] 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.” [7]
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.
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