Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Identity

Daniel Boyarin

Jonathan Boyarin

1993

We propose Diaspora as a theoretical and historical model to replace national self-determination. To be sure, this would be an idealized Diaspora generalized from those situations in Jewish history when Jews were both relatively free from persecution and yet constituted by strong identity—those situations, moreover, within which Promethean Jewish…

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Daniel Boyarin

b. 1946

Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Daniel Boyarin is a professor of Talmudic culture at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarship integrates philosophy, rhetoric, women’s studies, and gay and lesbian studies with the study of rabbinic literature, Judaism, and Christianity in Late Antiquity.

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Jonathan Boyarin

b. 1956

Jonathan Boyarin, born in Neptune, New Jersey, is a translator, author, and professor of modern Jewish thought at the University of North Carolina. Combining cultural studies with elements of anthropology and ethnography, his work addresses Yiddish literature and culture, the Diaspora, memory, and Zionism.

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