Jeremy Dauber
Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture
Columbia University

Jeremy Dauber is currently the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University, where he is a director emeritus of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. For approximately a decade, he served as the co-editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. Among his books are: Antonio’s Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature; In the Demon’s Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern; The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem; Jewish Comedy: A Serious History; and Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew.

Selected Publications

Co-Editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History

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)

Jewish Comedy: A Serious History (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017)

Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew (Yale University Press, 2023)