Ynon Wygoda is a research fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University where he leads the project "The Star and its Universe: Franz Rosenzweig between Past and Future" in collaboration with Göttingen State and University Library.
His academic focus lies on the intersection of twentieth-century French and German philosophy and modern Jewish thought. He earned his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the notion of silence and ineffability in the works of Franz Rosenzweig and Vladimir Jankélévitch and is currently interested in new philosophical readings of the book of Job. Before joining the Franz Rosenzweig Center, he held the Olga and William Lakritz post-doctoral fellowship and was a fellow at the Martin Buber Society. He previously taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, the Paideia Institute in Stockholm, and served as a visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In the summer semester of 2023, he is invited to serve as the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor at the University of Kassel, Germany.
"The Star and its Universe: Franz Rosenzweig between Past and Future"
By asking Nahum Glatzer to compile a list of the Jewish sources embedded in The Star of Redemption for its readers, Franz Rosenzweig indicated that the unveiling of his book’s sources holds a necessary key to its understanding. The extensive scholarly library on the work that has amassed since its publication has only reinforced how crucial a comprehensive view of Rosenzweig’s engagement with his textual sources is for understanding Rosenzweig’s unique theological-philosophical argumentation and vision. Scholarship has also proven the need to undertake such an endeavor collaboratively so as to combine the areas of expertise required to do so. "The Star and its Universe “ aims to create this digital annotation platform that: 1) expresses the intertextual character of the text by enabling side-by-side juxtaposition of the Star and its references; 2) creates the possibility for collaborative annotation for the registered community of Rosenzweig scholars; 3) produces a knowledge graph that makes use of Linked Open Data and will enable scholars to track all appearances of an author or collection of texts within the Star and draw requisite inferences regarding the conceptual and cultural foci of Rosenzweig’s thought; and 4) ensures flexibility and sustainability with an eye to the long-term viability of the platform from a technical and scientific perspective.
Research Fellow 2021-2022 Lakritz Fellowship