Jonathan Boyarin | Academic Influence

Jonathan Boyarin's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Jonathan Boyarin

Anthropology

#1291

World Rank

#1703

Historical Rank

#611

USA Rank

anthropology Degrees

Download Badge

Anthropology

Jonathan Boyarin's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Anthropology 2025

Why Is Jonathan Boyarin Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Jonathan Aaron Boyarin is an American anthropologist whose work centers on Jewish communities and on the dynamics of Jewish culture, memory and identity. Born in Neptune, New Jersey, he is married and has two sons. In 2013, he was appointed Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University.

(See a Problem?)

Jonathan Boyarin's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Natural Histories of Discourse. (1997) (630)
Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity (1993) (447)
The Ethnography of Reading. (1993) (151)
Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace (1994) (127)
Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory (1992) (88)
Textual Interpretation As Collective Action (1993) (80)
Savage Escapes from Anthropology Department, Captures Jewish Studies Professor@@@The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism (1991) (68)
Jews and other differences : the new Jewish cultural studies (1997) (66)
From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (1985) (60)
Voices around the Text: The Ethnography of Reading at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem (1989) (53)
Powers Of Diaspora: Two Essays On The Relevance Of Jewish Culture (2002) (48)
Thinking in Jewish (1996) (36)
The Presence of the Name: Reading Scripture in an Indonesian Village (1993) (29)
The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England (1993) (29)
Keep Listening: Ethnography and Reading (1993) (25)
Self-Exposure as Theory: The Double Mark of the Male Jew (1995) (22)
Keeping Slug Woman Alive: the Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom (1993) (20)
Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self‐Understanding. GEORGE C. ROSENWALD and RICHARD L. OCHBERG, eds (1994) (19)
Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (1991) (16)
Reading Exodus into History (1992) (16)
Critical theory of religion vs. critical religion (2016) (15)
Social Memory. JAMES FENTRESS and CHRIS WICKHAM (1994) (13)
Powers Of Diaspora (2002) (12)
Jewish Ethnography and the Question of the Book (1991) (12)
Palestine and Jewish History: Criticism at the Borders of Ethnography (1996) (10)
Circumscribing Constitutional Identities in Kiryas Joel (1997) (9)
The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe (2009) (9)
Toward a Dialogue with Edward Said (1989) (8)
How can mainstream approaches become more critical? (2015) (7)
No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France (2012) (6)
On a balanced critique: (or on the limits of critique) (2017) (5)
:Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning (2006) (5)
Does time stop in the world of Talmud Torah? (2021) (4)
Death and the Minyan (1994) (4)
Japanese Spirit and Chinese Learning: Scribes and Storytellers In Pre-modern Japan (1993) (4)
Time and Human Language Now (2009) (3)
Jewish Rhetorics and the Contemplation of a Diminished Future (2016) (3)
The Jewish Search for a Usable Past. By David G. Roskies. The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures injewish Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xii, 217 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Figures. Musical examples. $24.95, hard bound. (2001) (3)
Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory. (1994) (3)
Editorial (2013) (3)
Law, Literature, and the Resurrection of Contract (1999) (3)
Can a religious approach be critical? (2014) (2)
Out of the Depths of Modernity: Fragments of a Response to Charles Taylor’s “A Catholic Modernity?” in a Jewish Idiom (2021) (2)
Discerning the ghosts and the interest of the living (2005) (2)
Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side (2011) (2)
Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era (1993) (2)
Seven Literacy, Orality, and Ritual Practice In Highland Colombia (1993) (2)
Another Abraham: Jewishness and the Law of the Father (1997) (2)
An Ugly Story? (2011) (1)
Critical trajectories and the timing of critique (2018) (1)
Jewish identification and critical theory: The political significance of conceptual categories (2014) (1)
Jews and the Ends of Theory (2018) (1)
Undoing Jewish Ethnography (2015) (1)
Portrait (2020) (1)
Yeshiva Days (2020) (1)
Moving Partitions Past: Aamir Mufti’s Enlightenment in the Colony (2009) (1)
New jews the end of the jewish diaspora Aviv, Caryn and Shneer, David (2007) (1)
In My Father's Study. BEN ORLOVE (1995) (1)
Text and Translation (2009) (0)
By Myself and with Others (2020) (0)
1. Until the Conversion of the Self (2019) (0)
A Tribute to Hannah Arendt: Marking the Centenary of Her Birth (2006) (0)
Sylvia Barack Fishman (Ed.): Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution (2016) (0)
"Polish Jews in Paris, The Ethnography of Memory", Jonathan Boyarin, Indiana University Press, Bloomington-Indianopolis, 1991 : [recenzja] / Adam Walaszek. (1995) (0)
Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. By Ezra Mendelsohn. The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. xix, 279 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Maps. $50.00, hard bound. (2004) (0)
Jewishness and the Human Dimension (2022) (0)
A Stick of Wood, a Tree of Life (2020) (0)
Genealogies of the Future (2017) (0)
Enumerating the Obstacles (1996) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1966) (0)
Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna (review) (2006) (0)
Jewish Bialystok and its Diaspora (review) (2012) (0)
The Professor (2020) (0)
Conclusion: The Christian Dimension (2019) (0)
Chapter 18. Responsive Thinking: Cultural Studies And Jewish Historiography (2007) (0)
“Diaspora” (2020) (0)
The Jewish Question and the Reason of the State (2011) (0)
Stumbling Upon the Archive (2022) (0)
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, The Savage in Judaism : An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancien Judaïsme (1994) (0)
(Post)colonial Jews (2009) (0)
Interpreting Literacies: Recent Essays on Ethnography, Reading, and Writing@@@Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy@@@The Ethnography of Reading (1994) (0)
Cynthia Baker. Jew. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. 190 pp. (2018) (0)
Brief review (1978) (0)
A Serious Man: Introduction (2011) (0)
The Gender of the Angel (2012) (0)
On a more constructive relationship between the secular and religious left (2019) (0)
Kinship and Qiddushin: Genealogy and Geography in b. Qiddushin iv (2017) (0)
The monograph ‘The Transformation of Lithuanian Yeshivas’ (2020) (0)
Writing on Water by Judit Niran Frigyesi (review) (2022) (0)
Rebbi (2020) (0)
Lower East Side Landings (2014) (0)
Sylvia Barack Fishman (Ed.): Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution (2016) (0)
4. The Universe of the Human (2019) (0)
An inquiry into inquiries and a representation of representations (1991) (0)
Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self‐Fashioning. By Michael Stanislawski. The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+209. $35.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). (2006) (0)
Yoav Peled, Class and Ethnicity in the Pale: The Political Economy of Jewish Workers' Nationalism in Late Imperial Russia . New York: St. Martins Press, 1989. xii + 171 pp. (1990) (0)
Alanna Cooper. Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism . Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2012. 336 pp. (2013) (0)
How the Past Lives On (1993) (0)
Orthodox Time at a Lower East Side Yeshiva (2022) (0)
Jews, Theory, and Ends (2018) (0)
The Neighborhood, the City, and Beyond (2020) (0)
Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France by Kimberly A. Arkin. (2015) (0)
The Meaning of Leshma (2020) (0)
The Big Room (2020) (0)
Palestine and Jewish history (1996) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2014) (0)
Portrait: Talal Asad (2020) (0)
Contributors (2012) (0)
5. Text and Translation (2019) (0)
In Search of Authenticity: Issues of Identity and Belonging in the Twentieth Century (2017) (0)
Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews by Jay Geller (review) (2019) (0)
Learning and the Time of the Dream (2020) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
The Possibility of a New Critical Language from the Sources of Jewish Negative Theology (2010) (0)
Europe's Indian, America's Jew: Modiano and Vizenor (1992) (0)
Narratives of Jewish Identity (1996) (0)
Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages. Jonathan Elukin (2008) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Jonathan Boyarin

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Jonathan Boyarin?

Jonathan Boyarin is affiliated with the following schools: