Nathaniel Deutsch

Nathaniel Deutsch is a professor at The University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is also the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research.

Career

Deutsch attended the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. as well as his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees.

Deutsch was formerly a professor at Swarthmore College, a visiting professor at Stanford University, and the Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. In 2006, Deutsch was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support his research on the Jewish ethnographer S. 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 Iraqi Mandean community.

Works

• The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (2011)
• Inventing America's 'Worst' Family; Eugenics, Islam and the Fall and Rise of The Tribe of Ishmael (2009)
• The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World (2003)
  • Maiden of Ludmir
  • National Jewish Book Award finalist
• Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism (2000, co-editor with Yvonne Chireau)
  • Black Jews and black-Jewish relations in the United States
• The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism (1995)
  • Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and merkabah (early Jewish mystic beliefs)
• Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity (1999)
  • Vice-regency of angels in late antiquity

External links

• "Swarthmore Professor Named 2006 Guggenheim Fellow" (Swarthmore press release)