Daniel Boyarin is the Hermann P and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
11 Facts About Daniel Boyarin
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Daniel Boyarin is married to Chava Boyarin, a lecturer in Hebrew at UC Berkeley.
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Daniel Boyarin's brother, Jonathan Boyarin, is a scholar, and the two have written together.
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Daniel Boyarin has defined himself as a "diasporic rabbinic Jew".
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Daniel Boyarin was educated at Goddard College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Columbia University before earning his doctoral degree at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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Daniel Boyarin moved to Israel but developed anti-Zionist views in response to what he has claimed was an Israeli policy of breaking the arms and legs of Palestinian demonstrators during the First Intifada.
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Daniel Boyarin has taught at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University, Yale, Harvard, Yeshiva University, and the University of California at Berkeley.
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Daniel Boyarin is a member of the Enoch Seminar, and of the Advisory Board of the journal Henoch.
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Daniel Boyarin holds that passivity is an essential feature of Judaism, and that because this was how homosexuality was defined in Freud's era, it had the power to inspire panic among Jews who fear the censorious gaze of authority.
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Daniel Boyarin has written extensively on Talmudic and Midrashic studies, and about the Jews as a colonized people.
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Daniel Boyarin is a self-proclaimed Jewish anti-Zionist and has been highly critical of Israeli governments.