Ilya Dvorkin

Ilya Dvorkin 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.

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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, and has been involved in organizing international scientific conferences.

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.

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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. He studied under Vladimir Bibler, Georgy Shchedrovitsky, and Piama Gaidenko. He also engaged in Semiotics and was an active participant in the seminar on semiodynamics 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. He studied at the Yeshiva of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. From the mid-1980s, he began conducting ethnographic expeditions to study the vanished forms of Jewish life in the USSR.

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. 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, where he worked at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 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.

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

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