Jonathan Boyarin
Jonathan Aaron Boyarin | |
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Jonathan Boyarin, May 2024 | |
| Born | September 16, 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Title | Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Reed College (BA) New School for Social Research (MA, PhD) Yale Law School (JD) |
| Thesis | Landslayt: Polish Jews in Paris (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Stanley Diamond |
| Influences | Walter Benjamin |
| 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" |
| 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. Born in Neptune, New Jersey, he is married and has two sons. 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.