Daniel Boyarin
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Daniel Boyarin (born 1946) is a Jewish-American academic. Born Asbury Park, New Jersey, he holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship.
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[edit] Degrees
B.A. Goddard College; M.A. Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary; M.A. Semitic Languages, Columbia University; PhD. (1975) Jewish Theological Seminary of America.[1] Boyarin has held the following academic positions: Professor of Rabbinic Literature, Yeshiva University. Associate Professor of Talmud, Bar Ilan University.
In 2001 he was appointed Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, a post which he still holds.
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[edit] Criticism
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In December, 2006, after a lifetime of distinguished achievement in Jewish studies and Talmud scholarship, Boyarin was assailed by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in an article by Prof. Alvin H. Rosenfeld of Indiana University, Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism. Rosenfeld quotes Boyarin with disapprobation for having written: "Just as Christianity may have died at Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor...so I fear that my Judaism may be dying at Nablus, Deheishe, Beteen (Beth-El) and El-Khalil (Hebron)."[2] Rosenfield accuses Boyarin of lacking "lucid thinking" as well as "bias" for having drawn an analogy between the Nazi Holocaust and the Israeli government's conduct toward the Palestinians.[3]
The AJC criticism of Boyarin was magnified by Gershom Gorenberg writing in the American Prospect, rebuking Boyarin as a "purple-faced anti-Zionist" for saying that his Judaism is dying at Nablus in the same way that Christianity died at Auschwitz: "Berkeley Talmud professor Daniel Boyarin, who says that just as Christianity may have died at Auschwitz, "my Judaism may be dying at Nablus …" — which at least implies that Israel has engaged in Nazi-style mass murder in that West Bank city. Outrage at such comparisons is justified."[4]
[edit] Bibliography
- A Critical Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Nazir. (Doctoral dissertation, 1975).
- Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
- A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
- Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
- "Response to Leon Wieseltier." Jewish Quarterly Review Volume 95, Number 3, Summer 2005, pp. 443-446
[edit] References
- ^ Professor Daniel Boyarin - Education (University of California, Berkeley) Retrieved: 2007-03-18.
- ^ Cf. Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon (ed.), Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict (New York: Grove Press, 2003).
- ^ p. 17.
- ^ Also cf. Patricia Cohen, "Essay Linking Liberal Jews and Anti-Semitism Sparks a Furor," New York Times, Jan. 31, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Professor Daniel Boyarin Home page at University of California, Berkeley
- A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity E-text at California Digital Library
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| NAME | Boyarin, Daniel |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary Jewish-American academic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America |
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