Creator Bio
J. L. Teller
1912–1972
Yehuda (Judd) Leyb Teller was born in Tarnopol, Galicia, and was brought to New York City in 1921. He studied in Hebrew day schools and then at City College and Columbia University, from which he received a doctorate in psychology. He worked as a journalist and was employed by several Jewish political and communal organizations. Versatile and prolific, he wrote essays and poems in Yiddish and Hebrew and books on Jewish history and contemporary Jewish affairs in English. As a Yiddish poet, he was close to the American objectivists and the Yiddish Introspectivists.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Jud’ Süss Oppenheimer on His First Visit with Professor Sigmund Freud
That’s you—the Eternal Jew.
Of Esau’s lullaby, of Gentile legend.
And I am your nephew—Jud’ Süss Oppenheimer.
You, seer, who can see far, see clear, see through,
You may say that I—am not I,
That one…