Jonathan boyarin biography
Jonathan boyarin biography
Time and Human Language Now. Prickly Paradigm Press. 2009...
Jonathan Boyarin
American anthropologist
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.[3] Born in Neptune, New Jersey, he is married and has two sons.[4] 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.
Jewish Families. New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London: Rutgers University Press. 2013
Career
Boyarin was educated at Reed College, the New School for Social Research, and the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, before earning his doctoral degree in anthropology at the New School for Social Research.
In 1998, fourteen years after receiving his Ph.D., Boyarin received his J.D. at Yale Law School. He has taught at Cornell University, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences So