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Ilya Dvorkin

Ilya Dvorkin (Russian: Илья Саулович Дворкин) is a Russian and Israeli historian, philologist and philosopher. Organizer and the first rector of St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies in 1989 - 1997.[1][2]

Ilya Saulovich Dvorkin
Dvorkin in 2024
Born (1954-07-23) July 23, 1954 (age 69)
Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR
CitizenshipSoviet Union, Russia, Israel
Alma materPolytechnic Institute
Known forFirst rector and organizer of the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies
Scientific career
Fieldsphilology, history, Jewish studies
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
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Biography

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Ilya Dvorkin was born in 1954 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). He graduated from the Polytechnic University there, where he specialized in theoretical physics and cybernetics, but later his interests shifted towards philosophy and history, especially Jewish studies. In 1989, he became the organizer and rector of the Petersburg Jewish University, which revived the study and teaching of Jewish studies in Russia. In 1994, he was a visiting professor at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard. In 1998, he completed his postgraduate studies on the philosophy of Maimonides at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1998, he has been in Israel, teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also frequently taught at the philosophy faculties of Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University.

Scientific activity

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He defended his thesis on "Reflexive Logical Method in the Analysis of Complex Systems" and published his first printed works on this topic in the 1980s[3]. He also worked on semiotics[4]. He then entered graduate school in the history of science. Starting in 1987, he began conducting ethnographic expeditions to study the disappearing forms of Jewish life in the USSR[5], collecting a vast amount of materials - 3,000 photographs, 300 hours of interview and video recordings[6]. The accumulated experience allowed him to establish the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies in 1989, of which he became the first rector[7][8]. Later, he studied at the Yeshiva of Adin Steinsaltz[9] and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He prepared his dissertation in St. Petersburg, and since 1998 has lived in Israel[10], working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem[11]. He considers the philosophy of dialogue as his main philosophical specialty. He is the author of 9 books and 80 publications.

Family

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He is married with five children. He has a daughter from his first marriage.

Books

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  • Dvorkin (Дворкин), Ilya (Илья) (2022). Антология еврейской философии Нового и Новейшего времени. Изыскания в еврейской мысли (in Russian) (1st ed.). Jerusalem, Moscow: Библиотека М. Гринберга; Книжники. p. 928. ISBN 978-5-905826-44-3.
  • Дворкин, Илья; Фазылов, Маркиэл (2018). Популярная история бухарских евреев (in Russian) (1st ed.). VK-2000. p. 328.
  • Дворкин, Илья; Яндуганова, Екатерина (2017). Человек и звезда. Биография Франца Розенцвейга. В книге "Звезда Искупления" (in Russian). М.: Мосты культуры/Гешарим. p. 544. ISBN 978-5-93273-445-2.
  • Дворкин, Илья (2017). Астролябия. Путеводитель по философии Франца Розенцвейга. В книге "Звезда Искупления" (in Russian). М.: Мосты культуры/Гешарим. p. 544. ISBN 978-5-93273-445-2.
  • Дворкин, Илья (2010). Еврейские местечки, города, общины в перспективе личной и семейной истории. М.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Дворкин, Илья (2010). Еврейские классические тексты. Искусство перечитывания. М.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Дворкин, Илья (1999). Сон раби Хони га-Меагела. СПб.- Иерусалим.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Дворкин, Илья (1998). Это книга порождений человека. СПб.: Петербург. еврейский ун-т. ISBN 5879910504.
  • Дворкин, Илья (1996). Ленинградская агада (The Leningrad Children's Haggadah). СПб: Petersburg Jewish University. p. 128.
  • Дворкин, Илья (1995). Евреи в Средней Азии. Прошлое и настоящее: Экспедиции, исследования, публикации: Сб. науч. тр. SPb.: Петерб. евр. ун-т.

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ "St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies". St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies. Retrieved 2024-06-19. The new Leningrad Jewish University was created in 1989 during the new Soviet policy of Perestroika by enthusiasts and Jewish Activists, Ilya Dvorkin (the first Rector of the university)
  2. ^ "History and Philosophy of History of Matvey Kagan". Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 2024-03-05. Retrieved 2024-06-17. Ilya Dvorkin is a philosopher, researcher of the philosophy of dialogue, the philosophy of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Mikhail Bakhtin, founder and first rector of St. Petersburg Jewish University
  3. ^ Dvorkin, I.S. (1983). Shreider Yu.A., Shornikov B.S. (ed.). Reflexive-logical approach to the doctrine of classification (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. pp. 127–135.
  4. ^ Chebanov, S.V. (2002-03-07). "The relationship between comparative and evolutionary semiotics: why the former should precede the latter". Cybernetics (in Russian). doi:10.31249/metodquarterly/02.03.07 (inactive 2024-07-10). Thus, I.S. Dvorkin [Dvorkin, 1983] proposed a scheme of a semiotic means taking into account its performative effect and tropeic expansion of each of the corners of the semiotic triangle{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2024 (link)
  5. ^ Nosonovsky, Mikhail (2024-01-01). "Memories of the Petersburg Jewish University - A Unique Phenomenon of Cultural Life in the 1990s". Notes on Jewish History (in Russian) (1).
  6. ^ Bleich, Hanani (2020-06-11). "The researcher who documented the remnants of Jewish life in the Soviet empire". Makor Rishon (in Hebrew).
  7. ^ Huhn, Ulrike (2022). "The search for the "lost world" of the shtetls in the Soviet Union". Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West (in German): 26–28.
  8. ^ Feldman, Sara (2020-02-02). "Ilya Dvorkin: The Shtetl in the Viewfinder". 5782. Jewish Journal (in Russian).
  9. ^ Dvorkin, Ilya (2020-08-11). "Seven Essays on Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz". Lechaim (in Russian). KNIZHNIKI.
  10. ^ "Dvorkin I.S." Jews of Petersburg (in Russian). ORT-Ginzburg. Since 1998 - honorary president of the Petersburg Jewish University. Since then he has been living in Jerusalem.
  11. ^ "Digitalization Project". Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Hebrew University. From 2009 to 2011, the Nevzlin Center initiated a major international digitization project, supported generously by the Nadav Fund and coordinated by Ilya Dvorkin
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