The Unconverted Self
Thursday, March 18 2010
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the UNC-Chapel Hill. He's the author or co-author of more than a dozen books on Jewish life, history, ethnography and thought. He traces his impressive career as a scholar to his childhood on his family's chicken farm in New Jersey, their subsequent move to suburbia and his undergraduate years in Portland, Oregon in the 1970s. Jonathan Boyarin joins host Frank Stasio to talk about his new book, "The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe" (University of Chicago Press/2009) and how his life experience informs his work.
