Jonathan Boyarin

Jonathan Aaron Boyarin
Jonathan Boyarin, May 2024
Born	(1956-09-16)September 16, 1956 Neptune City, New Jersey
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.