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{{Infobox Philosopher<!-- Philosopher category -->
|region           = [[Western Philosophy]]
|era              = [[20th-century philosophy|20th]] / [[21st-century philosophy]]
|color            = #B0C4DE
|name             = Avram Noam Chomsky
|image_name       = Noam__chomsky_cropped.jpg
(contracted; show full)ive/2003/03/31/030331on_onlineonly02 Link], 3-31-03, accessed 1-26-09</ref> At the same time, his status as a leading critic of [[Foreign policy of the United States|US foreign policy]] has made him controversial.<ref>[http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA296856.html "The Accidental Bestseller], ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'', 5-5-03, accessed 10-11-08. "Chomsky's controversial political works...became mainstream bestsellers."</ref>
 
==Biography==

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[[File:MIT Campus.jpg|thumb|[[Stata Center|The Ray and Maria Stata Center]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], in which Chomsky holds his office in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.]]
Chomsky was born on the morning of [[December 7]], [[1928]] to [[Jewish]] parents in the [[East Oak Lane, Philadelphia|East Oak Lane]] neighborhood of [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], the son of a [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] scholar and [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] (Industrial Workers of the World) member, [[William Chomsky]] ([[1896]]–[[1977]]), a native of [[Ukraine]]. His mother, Elsie Chomsky (née Simonofsky), a native of what is present-day [[Belarus]], grew up in the United States and, unlike her husband, spoke "ordinary [[New York dialect|New York English]]." Their first language was [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]],<ref name=Goodman%26gt%3B%7B%7B>{{cite web |url=http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20041126.htm |title=The Life and Times of Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman|publisher=www.chomsky.info |accessdate=2008-12-21|last=|first=}}</ref> but Chomsky said it was "taboo" in his family to speak it.<ref name=Goodman%2F%26gt%3B/> He describes his family as living in a sort of "Jewish [[ghetto]]," split into a "Yiddish side" and "Hebrew side," with his family aligning with the latter and bringing him up "immersed in Hebrew culture and literature." Chomsky also describes tensions he personally experienced with [[Irish Catholics]] and German Catholics and [[anti-semitism]] in the mid-1930s. He recalls German-American "Beer parties" celebrating the fall of Paris to the Nazis [http://www(contracted; show full)
</ref> he is frequently sought out for his views by publications and news outlets worldwide.

Chomsky has received death threats because of his criticisms of US foreign policy.<ref name=
%26quot%3B"Stroumboulopoulos%26quot%3B%26gt%3B%7B%7B">{{cite web
|last=Stroumboulopoulos
|first=George
|title=Noam Chomsky on ''The Hour''
|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]
|date=2006-03-13
|url=http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=991
|accessdate=2007-09-04}}</ref> He was also on a list of planned targets created by [[Theodore Kaczynski]], better known as the [[Unabomber]]; during the period that Kaczynski was at large, Chomsky had all of his mail checked for explosives.<ref name=%26quot%3B"Stroumboulopoulos%26quot%3B%2F%26gt%3B"/> He states that he often receives undercover police protection, in particular while on the MIT campus, although he does not agree with the police protection.<ref name=%26quot%3B"Stroumboulopoulos%26quot%3B%2F%26gt%3B"/>

Chomsky resides in [[Lexington, MA|Lexington]], [[Massachusetts]] and travels often, giving lectures on politics.

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