Nathaniel Deutsch | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Jewish studies,religious studies |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Cruz |
Nathaniel Deutsch is a professor at theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, where he holds the Baumgarten Endowed Chair inJewish Studies. He is also the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Humanities Institute.
Deutsch attended theUniversity of Chicago, where he received hisPh.D. as well as hisBachelor of Arts andMaster of Artsdegrees.
Deutsch was formerly a professor atSwarthmore College, a visiting professor atStanford University, and theWorkmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at theYIVO Institute. In 2006, Deutsch was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship to support his research on theJewishethnographerS. An-sky.
In 2007,The New York Times ran an op-ed piece in which Deutsch called for the Bush administration to take immediate action to preserve the IraqiMandean community.[1]
Along with Michael Casper, Deutsch is the co-author ofA Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg, which was published in May 2021 byYale University Press and won theNational Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies.
