Benjamin Raphael Teitelbaum (born January 27, 1983) is an American

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

and political commentator. An associate professor of ethnomusicology at the

University of Colorado, Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sys ...

and former Head of Nordic Studies at the same institution. He is best known for his ethnographic research into far-right groups in Scandinavia and commentary on immigration, and is frequently cited as an expert in Scandinavian and American media.

Books

Teitelbaum is the author of ''Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism'' (2017), an ethnographic study of radical nationalists in Scandinavia, as well as ''War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right'' (2020), which explores the role of the

Traditionalism Traditionalism is the adherence to traditional beliefs or practices. It may also refer to: Religion * Traditional religion, a religion or belief associated with a particular ethnic group * Traditionalism (19th-century Catholicism), a 19th–c ...

in the thinking of figures like

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, and

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