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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Jud’ Süss Oppenheimer on His First Visit with Professor Sigmund Freud

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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…

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Goyim

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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…