Jeremy A. Dauber is the Atran Professor of

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, and Culture in the Department of

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, specializing in Yiddish and Jewish literature, American Jewish culture, and American studies. Since 2008, he has been the director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia. In 2009, he was named an inaugural member of the

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North American Scholars Circle. A native of

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, Dauber attended Yavneh Academy and is a 1990 graduate of the

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. He graduated from

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in 1995 summa cum laude and did his doctoral work at Oxford. He wrote a column on television and movies for the ''

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'' that was recognized by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2003. ''

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'' 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.” Dauber's research interests include Yiddish literature of the early modern period, Hebrew and Yiddish literature of the nineteenth century, the Yiddish theater, the history of Jewish comedy, and American Jewish literature. Dauber is co-editor of the journal '' Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History''.

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,

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, 2005. *''Landmark 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) *''Jewish Comedy: A Serious History'' (W.W. Norton, 2017) * ''American Comics: A History'' (W.W. Norton, 2021)

Prizes and awards

Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford from 1996 to 1999

References

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