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Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub

Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub is the author of six books of poet­ry: The Edu­ca­tion of a Daf­fodil: Prose Poems/​Di bil­dung fun a geln nart­sis: prozelid­er, A moyz tsvishn vakldike volkn-krat­sers: gek­libene Yidishe lider/​A Mouse Among Tot­ter­ing Sky­scrap­ers: Select­ed Yid­dish Poems, Prayers of a Heretic/​Tfiles fun an apikoyres, Uncle Feygele, What Still­ness Illuminated/​Vos shtilka­yt hot baloykhtn, and The Insa­tiable Psalm. Tsug­reyt­ndik zikh tsu tantsn: naye Yidishe lider/​Preparing to Dance: New Yid­dish songs, a CD of nine of his Yid­dish poems set to music, was released in 2014. He was hon­ored by the Muse­um of Jew­ish Her­itage as one of New York’s best emerg­ing Jew­ish artists and has been nom­i­nat­ed four times for a Push­cart Prize and twice for a Best of the Net award.

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Fic­tion
Oedi­pus in Brook­lyn and Oth­er Stories
Blume Lempel; Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans.
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Poet­ry
The Insa­tiable Psalm
Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub
Essay

Why I Write in Yiddish

When I write in Yid­dish, I’m plac­ing my own small flag, how­ev­er tat­tered, how­ev­er imper­fect, in the realm of new Yid­dish literature.

Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub
March 12, 2018
Essay

Hid­ing in Plain Sight: A Pri­vate Yet Can­did Yid­dish Writer

Ear­li­er this week Ellen Cassedy and Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their dis­cov­ery of Blume Lempel’s trans­gres­sive Yid­dish fic­tion, now trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish as…
Ellen Cassedy, Yer­miyahu Ahron Taub
December 14, 2016

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