Ynon Wygoda

Ynon Wygoda is a postdoctoral fellow at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies in collaboration with the Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy and the Department for the Study of Religion. Prior to arriving at the University of Toronto, he held the Olga and William Lakritz postdoctoral fellowship and was a member of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows. He previously taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, the Paideia Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and served as a visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and as the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor at the University of Kassel, Germany.
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. In Toronto, he will center on two projects: New philosophical readings of the book of Job, on the topic of which, alongside Michael Rosenthal, he will codirect a reading group and organize an international conference in the spring; and the working papers of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber towards their monumental translation of the Bible, for the purpose of which, in collaboration with Robert Gibbs, he aims to create a collaborative platform for a group of international scholars in order to offer first fruits of these amazing philosophical and hermeneutical insights to the academic community and to the public at large.