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
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
He is married with five children. He has a daughter from his first marriage.
Дворкин, Илья; Яндуганова, Екатерина (2017). Человек и звезда. Биография Франца Розенцвейга. В книге "Звезда Искупления" (in Russian). М.: Мосты культуры/Гешарим. p. 544.
ISBN978-5-93273-445-2.
Дворкин, Илья (2017). Астролябия. Путеводитель по философии Франца Розенцвейга. В книге "Звезда Искупления" (in Russian). М.: Мосты культуры/Гешарим. p. 544.
ISBN978-5-93273-445-2.
Дворкин, Илья (2010). Еврейские местечки, города, общины в перспективе личной и семейной истории. М.{{
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Dvorkin, Ilya (2020). "Philosophy of dialog: a historical and systematic introduction". Judaica Petropolitana (13): 6–24.
Dvorkin, Ilya (2019). Hermann Cohen and the Philosophy of Dialogue. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. Vol. 329. Atlantis Press.
doi:10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.39.
ISSN2352-5398.
Dvorkin, I. (2019). "Jewish philosophy as a Direction of the World philosophy of Modern and Contemporary Times". RUDN Journal of Philosophy. 23 (4): 430–442.
doi:
10.22363/2313-2302-2019-23-4-430-442.
Dvorkin, I.S. (2016). "FIRE AND RAYS. PHILOSOPHY OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY IN F. ROSENZWEIG'S "STAR OF REDEMPTION"". Judaica Petropolitana (6).
ISSN2307-9053.
Dvorkin, Ilya (2016). "Analytical Introduction to the Philosophy of Dialogue". Metaphysics. Scientific Journal. 22 (4): 8–27.
Dvorkin, I.S. (2013). "Being and Existing. Overcoming Metaphysics in Cohen, Heidegger and Levinas". Judaica Petropolitana (1): 155–173.
Akhiezer, Golda; Dvorkin, Ilya (2004). "Tombstone Inscriptions from the Karaite Cemeteries in Lithuania". Pe'amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry (in Hebrew). 4 (98/99): 225–260.
Dvorkin, I.S. (2001). "Maimonides". New Philosophical Encyclopedia (in Russian). Vol. 4.
References
^"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)
^"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
^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.
^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{{
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^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.
^"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.
^"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