| Nathaniel Deutsch | |
| Occupation: | Professor |
| Alma Mater: | University of Chicago |
| Discipline: | Jewish studies, religious studies |
| Workplaces: | University of California, Santa Cruz |
Nathaniel Deutsch is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he holds the Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. He is also the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Humanities Institute.
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.[1]
Along with Michael Casper, Deutsch is the co-author of A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg, which was published in May 2021 by Yale University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies.