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Ilya Dvorkin

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

Ilya Saulovich Dvorkin
Dvorkin in 2024
Born (1954-07-23) July 23, 1954 (age 70)
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. In 1981, he graduated from Северо-Западный государственный заочный технический университет (North-Western Open Technical University) and defended his diploma in logic and applied mathematics in the full-time department. Later, his sphere of interests shifted to philosophy and cultural history. In 1989, he became the organizer and rector of the Petersburg Jewish University (PJU), which revived the study and teaching of Judaica in Russia. He participated in numerous academic programs, including being a visiting researcher at Harvard University in 1995. In 1998, he completed his postgraduate studies without defending a dissertation at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the topic "Hermeneutics of Maimonides".

Since 1998, he has been in Israel, teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the coordinator for developing curricula for Jewish schools in the former Soviet Union (a joint project of the Hebrew University and the Israeli Ministry of Education), as well as a project for training teachers for Jewish schools (a joint project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Moscow State University). He has also taught multiple times at the philosophy faculties of Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University. He is the head of the "Sambation" project and educational projects at the Chais Center of the Hebrew University,[3][4] and has been involved in organizing international scientific conferences.[5]

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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Dvorkin defended his diploma thesis on "Reflexive Logical Method in the Analysis of Complex Systems" and published his first printed works on this topic in the 1980s.[6] He studied under Vladimir Bibler, Georgy Shchedrovitsky, and Piama Gaidenko. He also engaged in Semiotics[7] and was an active participant in the seminar on semiodynamics[8] and other informal scientific associations. In 1982-83, he proposed a logical-semantic concept called "Arithmology". On June 9-12, 1982, an all-union seminar "Arithmological Aspects of Classiology" was held in Pushchino.

In the early 1980s, he began to intensively study Judaica and joined the Jewish cultural movement.[9][10] He studied at the Yeshiva of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.[11] From the mid-1980s, he began conducting ethnographic expeditions to study the vanished forms of Jewish life in the USSR.[12][13][14][15]

In 1989, based on these expeditions and other scientific and educational projects, he organized the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies (PJU, Petersburg Jewish University), of which he was rector until 1998.[13][14][15] The university became an important center for the study and teaching of Jewish studies, research of Jewish history, development of Jewish education, and formation of a new Jewish community. From 1990 to 1998, PJU, together with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, conducted more than forty research expeditions in Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and other countries. During these expeditions, many of which were conducted under the direct leadership of I. Dvorkin, more than 10,000 photographs and 300 hours of audio and video recordings were collected.[16][17] One of the important research topics for I. Dvorkin during that period was the history of Bukharian Jews.[18] However, philosophy remained his main area of research.

Later, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1998, he prepared a dissertation on the philosophy of Maimonides at the Institute of Philosophy (Russian Academy of Sciences) in Moscow, but in the same year, he immigrated to Israel,[19] where he worked at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.[17] He cites the philosophy of dialogue as his main philosophical specialty. He is the author of 9 books and 80 publications. Among them are such major works as the preparation of the academic edition of Franz Rosenzweig's main philosophical work "The Star of Redemption", which received high praise from specialists.[20]

Family

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

Books

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  • Ilya Dvorkin (2022). Ilya Dvorkin (ed.). Anthology of Jewish Philosophy of Modern and Contemporary Times. Studies in Jewish Thought (in Russian). Moscow, Jerusalem: M. Greenberg Library; Knizhniki. p. 928. ISBN 978-5-905826-44-3.
  • Ilya Dvorkin, Markiel Fazylov (2018). Popular History of Bukharian Jews. VK-2000. p. 320.
  • Franz Rosenzweig (2017). I. Dvorkin (ed.). Man and Star. Biography of Franz Rosenzweig. In the book "The Star of Redemption" (in Russian). Translated by E. Yanduganova. Moscow: Mosty kultury/Gesharim. p. 544. ISBN 978-5-93273-445-2.
  • I. Dvorkin (2010). Jewish shtetls, cities, communities in the perspective of personal and family history. Moscow.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • I. Dvorkin (2010). Jewish classical texts. The art of rereading. Moscow.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • I. Dvorkin (2010). Jewish culture in images, symbols and works of art. Moscow.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • I. Dvorkin (1999). The Dream of Rabbi Honi ha-M'agel. St. Petersburg - Jerusalem.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • I. Dvorkin (1998). This is the book of the generations of man. St. Petersburg: Petersburg Jewish University. ISBN 5879910504.
  • Ilya Dvorkin, ed. (1996). The Leningrad Children's Haggadah. St. Petersburg: Petersburg Jewish University. p. 128.
  • I. S. Dvorkin (1995). T. D. Vyshenskaya (ed.). Jews in Central Asia. Past and present: Expeditions, research, publications: Collection of scientific works. St. Petersburg: Petersburg Jewish University.

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References

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  1. ^ "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. ^ "International Conference "Jewish Philosophy in the Context of Eastern and Western Cultures"". Jewish News of Petersburg (in Russian). 2014-11-19. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  4. ^ "Ilya Dvorkin". Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  5. ^ "Basic Concepts and Categories of Jewish Thought: Sources and Context". American Philosophical Association. 2019-05-29. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  6. ^ Dvorkin I.S. (1983). Shreider Yu.A., Shornikov B.S. (ed.). Theory and methodology of biological classifications (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. pp. 127–135.
  7. ^ S.V. Chebanov (2002-03-07). "The relationship between comparative and evolutionary semiotics: why the former should precede the latter" (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences. doi:10.31249/metodquarterly/02.03.07 (inactive 2024-11-03). Retrieved 2024-06-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  8. ^ Barantsev R. G. (2006). "History of semiodynamics: documents, conversations, comments". Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (in Russian). Moscow-Izhevsk.
  9. ^ Dvorkin I. S. (2019). "Jewish elders of the generation of teshuvah". Lechaim (in Russian) (1–5, 7, 9 (2019), 2 (2020)).
  10. ^ Michael Beizer (2018). "Jewish studies underground in Leningrad in the 1980s". East European Jewish Affairs. 48: 56–77. doi:10.1080/13501674.2018.1426532.
  11. ^ Ilya Dvorkin (2020-08-11). "Seven essays about Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz". Lechaim (in Russian). KNIZHNIKI.
  12. ^ Mikhail Nosonovsky (2024). "Memories of the Petersburg Jewish University - A Unique Phenomenon of Cultural Life in the 1990s". Notes on Jewish History (in Russian). 250 (1).
  13. ^ a b Ulrike Huhn (2022). "The search for the "lost world" of shtetls in the Soviet Union". Religion & Society in East and West (in German) (2): 26–28.
  14. ^ a b Sara Feldman (2020-02-02). "Ilya Dvorkin: Shtetl in the viewfinder". 5782. Jewish Journal (in Russian).
  15. ^ a b Goldin, Semion (2023). "Becoming Jews: The Petersburg Jewish University in the 1990s". Studies in Contemporary Jewry (An Annual XXXIII). Oxford University Press: 139–162.
  16. ^ Hanani Bleich (2020-06-11). "The researcher who documented the remnants of Jewish life in the Soviet empire". Makor Rishon (in Hebrew).
  17. ^ a b "Digitalization Project". Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Hebrew University. Retrieved 2024-06-27. From 2009 to 2011, the Nevzlin Center initiated a major international digitization project, supported generously by the Nadav Fund and coordinated by Ilya Dvorkin
  18. ^ Ilya Dvorkin, Markiel Fazylov (2018). Popular History of Bukharian Jews (in Russian). VK-2000. p. 320.
  19. ^ "Dvorkin I.S." Jews of Petersburg (in Russian). ORT-Ginzburg. Retrieved 2024-06-15. Since 1998 - Honorary President of the Petersburg Jewish University. Since the same time, he has been living in Jerusalem.
  20. ^ Belov V. N. (2018). "Franz ROSENZWEIG. The Star of Redemption. Review" (PDF). Questions of Philosophy (in Russian) (7). Russian Academy of Sciences: 544. ISSN 0042-8744.
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