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.
^ abJonathan Boyarin Curriculum Vitae
^Boyarin on Benjamin, Cornell Arts and Sciences Retrieved: 2015-03-07
^Smith, Jonathan Z. (2009). "Religion and Bible" (PDF). JBL. 128 (1): 11. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^Cornell Department of Anthropology Website Archived 2015-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
Jonathan Aaron Boyarin (Yiddish: יונתן אהרן בוירין; born September 16, 1956) is an American anthropologist whose work centers on Jewish communities and...
Berkeley. He is married to Chava Boyarin, a lecturer in Hebrew at UC Berkeley. They have two sons. His brother, JonathanBoyarin, is also a scholar, and the...
Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy". In Shai Ginsburg; Martin Land; JonathanBoyarin (eds.). Jews and the Ends of Theory. Fordham University Press. pp. 78–...
Palestine (about 1–1.3 million Jews) to be explained" (p. 19). Boyarin, Daniel, and JonathanBoyarin. 2003. Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Diaspora...
December 2020 at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 1, 2015, Boyarin, Jonathan; Boyarin, Daniel (2002). Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance...
critique is not new; JonathanBoyarin notes how Frederick W. Turner blamed Israel's monotheism for the very idea of genocide, which Boyarin found "simplistic"...
stereotype of the Jewish mother in American culture. The anthropologist JonathanBoyarin qualified the book a "work of covert anti-Semitism". Battaglio, Stephen...
ISBN 9780691099514. JonathanBoyarin. "Trickster's Children: Paul Radin, Stanley Diamond and Filiation in Anthropology A Lecture by JonathanBoyarin University...
characteristics that create a somber tone within this painting. Author JonathanBoyarin described motifs present in the image as “sadness, nostalgia, and beautification...
University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0-520-08012-2. JonathanBoyarin and Daniel Boyarin. Jews and other differences : the new Jewish cultural studies...
too; when the Romans persecuted Jews, they ignored Christians. Daniel Boyarin describes a traditional (and in his view, errant) understanding of Judeo-Christian...
Borning, 1971 – Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington Jonathan Grudin, 1972 – computer scientist Marilyn Olmstead, 1965 - chemist, expert...
Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy". In Shai Ginsburg; Martin Land; JonathanBoyarin (eds.). Jews and the Ends of Theory. Fordham University Press. pp. 48–64...
Schaechter, learning alongside other students such as Aaron Lansky, JonathanBoyarin, and Steven Zipperstein. After graduating from her PhD program in 1980...
Boyarin has argued that Paul's theology of the spirit is more deeply rooted in Hellenistic Judaism than generally believed. In A Radical Jew, Boyarin...
"Memoria de Sangre: Fear, Hope and Disenchantment in Argentina" in Boyarin, Jonathan (ed.) Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace (Minneapolis / London:...
have been applied to Jesus in later editing, to others such as Daniel Boyarin (1999), who argue that Jesus in the Talmud is a literary device used by...
Prints". Jewish Museum of Switzerland. Retrieved 10 January 2024. Boyarin, Jonathan. Thinking in Jewish, University of Chicago Press, 1996, p. 51. ISBN 0-226-06927-3...
Boyarin has argued that Paul's theology of the spirit is more deeply rooted in Hellenistic Judaism than generally believed. In A Radical Jew Boyarin argues...
Shaefer, p 5 Peter Schäfer, p 6ff Boyarin, pp 1–3; Boyarin cites the Talmud as saying there were 24 sects Boyarin, pp 1–3 Peter Schäfer p 7–9 Schaefer...
a decision of this kind made at that time remain controversial. Daniel Boyarin, for one, considers it a myth. The words "they ordained it at Jamnia (Yavne)"...
employee at the Library of Congress Conrad Herwig – jazz trombonist Daniel Boyarin – professor of Jewish Studies David Gallaher – graphic novelist David Helvarg...
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