Ilya Dvorkin

Ilya Dvorkin
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Born	Илья Саулович Дворкин

Ilya Dvorkin (Илья Саулович Дворкин) historian, philologist and philosopher. Organizer and the first rector of St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies in 1989 - 1997.

Biography

Ilya Dvorkin was born in 1954 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, where he graduated from the Polytechnic University, specializing in theoretical physics and cybernetics. Later, his interests shifted towards philosophy and history, especially Jewish history. In 1989, he became the organizer and rector of the St. 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 in Maimonides philosophy 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 taught repeatedly at the philosophy faculties of Moscow State University and St. 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 organized international scientific conferences.

Scientific activity

He defended his thesis on "Reflexive logical method in the analysis of complex systems," published his first printed works on this topic in the 1980s[6], and also worked on semiotics[7]. He then entered postgraduate studies in the history of science. Starting in 1987, he began conducting ethnographic expeditions to study the vanished forms of Jewish life in the USSR[8], collecting a vast amount of materials - 3000 photographs, 300 hours of interview and video recordings[9]. The accumulated experience allowed him to found the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies in 1989, of which he became the first rector[10][11]. Later, he studied at Rabbi A. Steinsaltz's Yeshiva[12] and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He prepared his dissertation in St. Petersburg, and since 1998 has been living in Israel[13], working at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem[14]. He cites the philosophy of dialogue as his main philosophical specialty. He is the author of 9 books and 80 publications.

Family

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

Books

• 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.