Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron
1967-
A bilingual (Yiddish and English) poet and a translator of Yiddish literature into English, he was born in Philadelphia. He studied in a yeshiva and universities in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and New York.
He debuted in print with poems in Yiddish in 1993 in the columns of the journal
Yugntruf (Call to Youth).
He has published three poetry collections and two prose volumes in English.
He contributed to:
the bilingual (Yiddish and English) anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry, Trot bay trot (Step by step) (Macerata: Verbarium/Quodlibet, 2009), 233 pp.;
the anthology of Yiddish poems from the post-Holocaust generation, Ring (Link) (Tel Aviv, 2017); and
the anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry in Ukrainian translation, Tsvishn tsebrokhene matseyves (Among destroyed gravestones) (Kyiv, 2024).
He translated into English from the writings of Frume Halpern, Ayde Maze, Yerakhmiel Briks, Blime Lempel, and others.
He lives in Washington, D.C. (2025).
His poetry collections in Yiddish include:
Vos di Shtilkeyt Baloykhtn (What the Silence Illuminated), with parallel translation in English (Austin, 2008); and
A Moyz Tsvishn Vaklndike Volkn-Kratsers (A Mouse Among Swaying Skyscrapers) (Tel Aviv: Library of Contemporary Yiddish Literature, 2017).