Franz Rosenzweig

Robert Gibbs is Inaugural Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute and Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His work is located on the borderlines of
Philosophy and Religion, with a comparative and historical focus on Law and Ethics.
He has worked on ethics in relation to the modern Jewish philosophical tradition
and has numerous publications in this and in related fields in continental philosophy,
including two books, Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas and Why Ethics? Signs
of Responsibilities. He has taught in the Philosophy Departments at the University
of Toronto and St. Louis University, and in the Religion Departments at Princeton
University and at the University of Toronto. He is cross-appointed to the University
of Toronto Departments of French, German, Religion, and the Centre for Jewish
Studies. His current research focuses on Higher Education. He has recently completed
a book length manuscript, The University in Question: New Ideas.He is President of
the International Rosenzweig Society and serves on various academic advisory boards
and journal editorial boards.
Eveline Goodman-Thau: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. phil. habil, b. in Vienna 1938, flight to
Holland, survived in hiding, since 1956 in Jerusalem, Professor for Philosophy and
Jewish Thought, Rabbi. Teaches at Leuphana University Lueneburg and is founder and
director of the Hermann-Cohen-Akademie für Religion, Science and Art in Buchen/
Odw. and the Hebraic Graduate School of Europe; Guest professor among others
in Kassel, Bern, Oldenburg, Halle, Jerusalem, Vienna, Harvard and Osnabrück. Main
Publications: Aufstand der Wasser. Jüdische Hermeneutik zwischen Tradition und
Moderne (Berlin 2002); Erbe und Erneuerung. Kulturphilosophie aus den Quellen des
Judentums (Wien 2004); Das Jüdische Erbe Europas. Krise der Kultur im Spannungsfeld
von Tradition, Geschichte und Identität (Berlin 2005); Arche der Unschuld. Versuch
einer Vernunftskritik nach Ausschwitz (Berlin 2008); Zwischen Formation und
Transformation. Die Religionen Europas auf dem Weg des Friedens (Osnabrück 2011).
Daniel Gross is a third year doctoral student at the University of Haifa, Department
of Jewish History and Jewish Thought, an assistant researcher at the Bucerius Institute
for Research of contemporary German history and society, and a teacher at Yeshivat
Maale Gilboa. He is currently writing his dissertation on the connection between
Rosenzweig’s perception of love and love in Rosenzweig’s personal life, under the
guidance of Prof. Amos Morris-Reich and Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli. His M.A. discussed
the internal experience in Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption and was written under
the guidance of Prof. Ephraim Meir.
Frank Hahn is a free essayist and author on philosophical issues with the main focus
on language, listening and Jewish studies. He published “Der Sprache vertrauen –
der Totalität entsagen: Annäherungen an Rosenzweigs Sprachdenken“ in Karl Alber
Verlag 2013. He is the chairman of the philosophical-cultural association Spree-Athen,
which is organizing monthly presentations and debates on subjects of philosophy,
literature and Jewish studies in Berlin. He also is part of the Talmud workshop on the
Center for Jewish Studies in Berlin.
Henrik Holm, geb. 1980 in Oslo. Studium der Musik, Theologie und Philosophie
an der UdK Berlin und an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Promotion an der TU
Dresden 2010. 2008-2014 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Hamburg
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