{{Short description|American academic}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jeremy Dauber | image = <!--(filename only)--> | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Jeremy Asher Dauber | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|2|20}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = | fields = Yiddish and Jewish literature<br/>American Jewish culture<br/>American studies | workplaces = [[Columbia University]] | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]]<br/>[[University of Oxford]] | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = [[Rhodes Scholarship]] | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | footnotes = | religion = }} '''Jeremy Asher Dauber''' (born February 20, 1973)<ref>"[https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003067936.html Dauber, Jeremy, 1973-]" at [[Library of Congress Linked Data Service]].</ref> is the Atran Professor of [[Yiddish Language]], [[Yiddish literature|Literature]], and Culture in the Department of [[Germanic Languages]] at [[Columbia University]], specializing in Yiddish and Jewish literature, American Jewish culture, and American studies.<ref name="columbiaspectator.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29836|title=- Columbia Daily Spectator|website=Columbiaspectator.com|accessdate=11 August 2017|archive-date=19 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119150146/http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29836|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.

Since 2008, he has been the director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia.<ref name="columbiaspectator.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nysun.com/article/72591|title=Scholar of Yiddish Named To Lead Columbia Institute|website=Nysun.com|accessdate=11 August 2017|archive-date=26 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626172815/https://www.nysun.com/article/72591|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sandbox.blog-city.com/confusion_at_columbia.htm|title=Confusion at Columbia [Martin Kramer's Sandbox&#93;<!-- Bot generated title -->|website=Sandbox.blog-city.com|accessdate=11 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417023407/http://sandbox.blog-city.com/confusion_at_columbia.htm|archive-date=17 April 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2009, he was named an inaugural member of the [[Shalom Hartman Institute]] North American Scholars Circle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=447 |title=Shalom Hartman Institute - Jewish Scholarship, Education, Leadership for Israel, Diaspora |access-date=2010-03-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419183656/http://www.hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=447 |archive-date=2010-04-19 }}</ref>

A native of [[Teaneck, New Jersey]], Dauber attended [[Yavneh Academy (New Jersey)|Yavneh Academy]] and is a 1990 graduate of the [[Frisch School]] in [[Paramus, New Jersey]].<ref>Palmer, Joanne. [http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/jewish-humor-or-jewish-horror/ "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.</ref> He graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1995 summa cum laude and did his doctoral work at Oxford.<ref name="92y.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.92y.org/shop/detail.asp?productid=T-BL5LL04|title=Search Our Site - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY|website=92y.org|accessdate=11 August 2017}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

He wrote a column on television and movies for the ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]'' that was recognized by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2003.<ref name="92y.org"/> Also, during his time at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]], Dauber wrote the [[libretto]] for an opera that was later played in [[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]]. In addition, he also wrote a movie that was screened at the [[Marché du Film|Cannes Film Market]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jeremy A. Dauber {{!}} Department of Germanic Languages |url=https://germanic.columbia.edu/people/faculty/jeremy-dauber |access-date=2026-02-23 |website=germanic.columbia.edu}}</ref>

''[[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." <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ujc.org/page.html?ArticleID=26195 |title=Head of the Class |access-date=2008-03-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070805083326/http://www.ujc.org/page.html?ArticleID=26195 |archive-date=2007-08-05 }}</ref>

Dauber is co-editor of the journal ''[[Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Prooftexts|url=http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/pages.php?pID=89|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|accessdate=4 September 2016}}</ref>

==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. *''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)

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