Jewish Thought Department
Supervisor: Benjamin Pollock
Bio: Dana Rubinstein is a PhD candidate in the Department of Jewish Thought. Her research focuses on the Buber-Rosenzweig working papers and she seeks to demonstrate both the possibilities and limitations of Bible translation as a unique hermeneutical medium by mining the depth of the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible and the dialogue surrounding it. Rubinstein received her BA in philosophy from Yale University and her MA in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University. The title of her MA thesis is: Nehama Leibowitz and the Hermeneutics of Comparative Bible Translation. Her advisor is Professor Benjamin Pollock.
Abstract: My research focuses on the Buber-Rosenzweig working papers and I seek to demonstrate both the possibilities and limitations of Bible translation as a unique hermeneutical medium by mining the depth of the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible and the dialogue surrounding it.
Publications:
“The Buber-Rosenzweig Working Papers and the Making of Die Schrift,” Geschichte der Philologien (forthcoming 2022);
“The Unsung Buber-Leibowitz Coda to the German Jewish Swan Song,” Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History 16 (2021), co-author: Ynon Wygoda;
Translation of “Die dreizehn Grundlehren der Religion,” by Gotthold Salomon into English, in G. Kohler, ed., Modern Jewish Theology (Jewish Publication Society, forthcoming);
“A Note on Gebrauch as ‘Common Use’ in PI 43: The Puzzles of PI 43 and the Uses of the Word ‘Use’ in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations,” Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 68 (2019).
Azrieli Scholarship 2022/23
President Stipend 2021/22