Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is the author of three volumes of poetry, Uncle Feygele (Austin, Tex.: Plain View Press, 2011), What Stillness Illuminated/Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn (West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, 2008), and The Insatiable Psalm (Hershey, Pa.: Wind River Press, 2005), and the editor of the exhibition catalog Mattityahu Strashun (1817-1885): Scholar, Leader, and Book Collector (New York, N.Y.: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2001). All three of Taub's poetry books were selected by the critic Amos Lassen for his “The Best in LGBT Literature of 2011: a Personal List.”
His Yiddish and English language poems, one of which was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in numerous online and print publications, including The Adirondack Review, Eclectica Magazine, Five Fingers Review, The Forward, Lily, and Prairie Schooner. He appears in, edited the English subtitles for the Yiddish dialogue, and received an additional writing credit for Divan (Zeitgeist, 2003; palinkapictures.com), a documentary film by Pearl Gluck. Taub was honored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage as one of New York’s best emerging Jewish artists. He works as a Senior Librarian in the Israel & Judaica Section at the Library of Congress and is also active in the Association of Jewish Libraries.
Taub was born and raised in an ultra-Orthodox community in Philadelphia. He received his secondary education in yeshivot in his hometown and in Baltimore. A Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Temple University, he received an M.A. in history from Emory University and an M.L.S. from Queens College, City University of New York. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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