United States, 1956
scholar of Judaism
Jonathan Boyarin
Jonathan Boyarin has been Professor of Contemporary Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina since 2007. He studied law at Yale and obtained a PhD in anthropology. His investigation centres on Zionism, the Jewish diaspora and the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. Boyarin wrote Polish Jews in Paris (1991), Thinking in Jewish (1996) and Powers of Diaspora (2002).