Goyim

Judd L. Teller

1949

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This text recounts acts of violence against Jewish people and sexual violence against women. The text provides insight into Jewish history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote sexual violence or oppression of any kind.

When first touched by memory, I found myself already in the midst of [ . . . ] ominous twilights which came intermittently, in series, and have stayed with me as the keenest memory of childhood.

Our house with its grocery store was usually as open as a circus tent, as if its doors were mere flaps. Customers used to come in by the front door at all…

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Judd 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. The most prominent of the “American-born” group of Yiddish modernist poets, Teller abandoned his Yiddish literary ambitions and threw his energies into journalism, Zionism, and Jewish communal affairs.

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