Ilya Saulovich Dvorkin | |
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Born | Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR | July 23, 1954
Citizenship | Soviet Union, Russia, Israel |
Alma mater | Polytechnic Institute |
Known for | First rector and organizer of the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies |
Scientific career | |
Fields | philology, history, Jewish studies |
Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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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]
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)
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