Jonathan Aaron Boyarin | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Title | Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University |
Academic background | |
Education | B.A. (1977), M.A. (1980), Ph.D. (1984), J.D. (1998)[1] |
Alma mater | Reed College (B.A.) New School for Social Research (M.A.)/(Ph.D.) Yale Law School (J.D.) |
Thesis | 'Landslayt: Polish Jews in Paris' (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Stanley Diamond |
Influences | Walter Benjamin[2] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology, Jewish Studies |
Sub-discipline | Jewish ethnography, Yiddish culture, critical theory |
Institutions | Cornell University Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University of Kansas Dartmouth College The New School |
Notable ideas | "ethnography of reading"[3] |
Website | http://anthropology.cornell.edu/jonathan-boyarin |
Jonathan Aaron Boyarin (Yiddish: יונתן אהרן בוירין; born September 16, 1956) is an American anthropologist whose work centers on Jewish communities and on the dynamics of Jewish culture, memory and identity.[4] Born in Neptune, New Jersey, he is married and has two sons.[1] In 2013, he was appointed Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University.
His brother, Daniel Boyarin, is also a well-known scholar, and the two have written together.