# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elliot-r-wolfson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:25:56.298Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elliot-r-wolfson"
name: "Elliot R. Wolfson"
slug: "elliot-r-wolfson"
description: "Elliot R. Wolfson is a scholar of Jewish mysticism, comparative religion, and philosophy. From 2014 to 2024 he was the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he now serves as Distinguished Professor of Religion Emeritus. He was previously the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University (1987–2014)."
tagline: "Jewish historian and poet"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.29
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.683046666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_R._Wolfson"
    title: "Elliot R. Wolfson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B1._%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "أليوت ر. ولفسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B1._%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "اليوت ر. ولفسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%98_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "אליוט וולפסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_R._Wolfson"
    title: "Elliot R. Wolfson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_R._Wolfson"
    title: "Elliot R. Wolfson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5365554"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump