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Omri Boehm

Omri Boehm is an Israeli philosopher at the New School for Social Research in New York, known for his work on the Binding of Isaac, on Kant, and on Israel and Zionism.

born 1979Interpretation of the Binding of IsaacWork on Kant and SpinozaWriting on Israel and ZionismThe book Radical Universalism

Occupation: philosopher, university teacher, opinion journalist
Education: Tel Aviv University, Yale University, LMU Munich

Omri Boehm was born in 1979 in Gilon

Omri Boehm was born in 1979 and grew up in Gilon, a community in the Lower Galilee. During his IDF service he served in an intelligence unit.

From 2000 to 2004 he studied in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme at Tel Aviv University. He studied at Heidelberg University in 2005 and 2006. In 2009 he completed a PhD at Yale University on Kant's critique of Spinoza, and in 2010 he did a post-doc at LMU Munich.

He is an associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His first book, published in 2007, argues that Abraham chose to disobey the command to sacrifice Isaac. Later books deal with Kant and Spinoza, a model of bi-national Zionism, and moral universalism.

His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Haaretz and Die Zeit. In 2024 he received the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding. In 2025 a planned speech of his at a Buchenwald liberation memorial event was postponed after pressure from the Israeli embassy in Germany.