Jeremy A. Dauber
Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Yiddish Studies, Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture; Director Emeritus, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies
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Jeremy A. Dauber
Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture and director of Columbia's Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies; he also teaches in American studies. He is the author of?Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature?(Stanford University Press, 2004);?In the Demon's Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern (Yale University Press; 2010);?The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem?(Schocken Books, 2013); and his newest book, a history of Jewish comedy, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2017. He is also the co-editor and -translator, with Joel Berkowitz, of?Landmark Yiddish Plays?(SUNY Press, 2006), an anthology of Yiddish drama. He is also editor, with Barbara Mann, of?Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, a leading journal in the field of Jewish literature.
His research interests include Yiddish literature; comparative Jewish literature; the Yiddish theater; American Jewish literature and popular culture; and American literature and popular culture.