Curriculum vitae Prof. Ephraim Meir Home address: 12 Sderot ha-Meiri 96107 Jerusalem Israel Tel.: 972-2-6522365 [email protected] University address: Department of Philosophy Bar-Ilan University 52900 Ramat-Gan Israel Tel.: 972-3-5318421 Education: 1967-1972 Sciences of Religion, Louvain University, BA and MA 1972-1975 Biblical Philology, Louvain University, BA and MA 1972-1975 Theology, Louvain University, BA and MA 1979 Theology, Louvain University, PhD Positions Held: 1975-1980 Researcher, Belgian Foundation of Scientific Research 1980-1982 Theological secretary of the Ecclesiastical Province of Holland 1984-1989 Researcher, The Academy of Hebrew Language, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 1988-1992 Instructor, Ben Gurion University, Department of Jewish Thought 1989-1992 Instructor, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Philosophy 1992-1994 Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Philosophy 1994-1998 Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Philosophy 1996-1998 Head of the Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University 1998 Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Philosophy Personal data: 1949 Born in Belgium 1971 Marriage (now father of five children, three daughters and two sons) 1983 Immigration to Israel Publications: a. Books My Heart is in Zion: Present, Past and Future of Zionism (Dutch), Hague: Omniboek, 1983. Star from Jacob. Life and Work of Franz Rosenzweig (Hebrew), Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994. E. Lévinas, Éthique et Infini. Dialogues avec Philippe Nemo, transl. into Hebrew by E. Meir in cooperation with S. Re‟em, introduced and annotated by E. Meir, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1995 (interview with Levinas on pp. 89-97). Modernes jüdisches Denken, Fuldatal: Atelea Verlag, 1996. Towards an Active Memory. Man, Society and God after Auschwitz (Dutch), Amsterdam: Amphora Books, 2003. Jewish Existential Philosophers in Dialogue (Hebrew), Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2004. Letters of Love. Franz Rosenzweig‟s Spiritual Biography and Oeuvre in Light of the Gritli Letters, New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Towards an Active Memory. Society, Man and God after Auschwitz (Hebrew), Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2006. (=revised and extended version of my book in Dutch). „Jij‟ zeggen met Martin Buber. Dialogische opmerkingen bij Bubers „Ik en jij‟ (Dutch), Amsterdam: Amphora Books, 2006. Levinas‟s Jewish Thought Between Jerusalem and Athens, Jerusalem: Magnes, in press. b. Edited books Haviva Pedaya and Ephraim Meir (eds.), Judaism, Topics, Fragments, Faces, Identities. Jubilee Volume in Honor of Rivka Horwitz, Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University, 2007, 819 pp. (Hebrew). c. Articles 1. ”Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense 1973 “, in Louvain Studies 5,2 (1974) 192- 194. 2. “The Science of Literature Method of Prof. M. Weiss in Confrontation with Form Criticism, exemplified on the Basis of Ps. 49”, in Bijdragen-Tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie 41,2 (1979) 152-167. 3. “KBD comme nom divin en éblaïte, ougaritique et hébreu”, in Revue Théologique de Louvain 11,2 (1980) 225-228. 4. “La Sagesse psalmique et le Psaume 94”, in Bijdragen-Tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie 42,1 (1981) 22-45. 5. “La dimension sapientiale du Psaume 62”, in Bijdragen-Tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie 42,4 (1981) 350-365. 6. “Does Antizionism Equal Antisemitism ?” (Dutch), in Kosmos en oekumene 16,6 (1982) 187-199. 7. “The Role of Antisemitism in the Pre-War Rexist Movement”, in Bulletin trimestriel de la Fondation Auschwitz no. 16, décembre 1987-février 1988, 16- 32. 8. “The Idea of Revelation in Levinas” ( Hebrew), in Daat. A Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah 30 (1993), 41-52. 9. “The Place of the Land of Israel and the State of Israel in the Writings of E. Levinas” (Hebrew), in Metaphora. Philosophical Journal 3 (1993), 41-61. 10. ”Ian T. Ramsey's Theory on Religious Language: Disclosure and Moral Behaviour”, in A. Sagi and D. Statman (eds.), Between Religion and Ethics, Ramat- Gan: Bar-Ilan, 1993, 7-22. 11. ”The Dimension of the Feminine in Levinas‟ Philosophy”, in Iyyun. The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1994), 145-152. 12. ”La presenza biblica nella cultura ebraica contemporanea: M. Buber- F. Rosenzweig-E. Levinas”, in S.J. Sierra (ed.), La lettura ebraica delle Scritture, Bologna: Dehoniane,1995, 465-495. 13. “Criticism of the „Myth‟ of Unio Mystica in E. Levinas” (Hebrew), in H. Pedayah (ed.), Myth in Judaism (Eshel Beer-Sheva, 4), Beersheba: Ben-Gurion University, 1996, 393-405. 14. ”The Contributions of Modern Thought to a Psychoanalytic Phenomenology of Groups”, in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought 19,4 (1996), 563-578. 15. ”Levinas‟s Thinking on Religion as beyond the Pathetic: Reflections on the First Part of Difficult Freedom”, in E.L. Fackenheim-R. Jospe (eds.), Jewish Philosophy and the Academy, London: Associated University Presses, 1996, 142-164. 16. ”Philosophical Reflections on Moral Sense Perversity as a Denial of the Reality Principle”, in J.J. Rozenberg (ed.), Sense and Nonsense. Philosophical, Clinical and Ethical Perspectives, Jerusalem 1996, 27-42. 17. “War and Peace in the Philosophy of E. Levinas” (Hebrew), in Iyyun. The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 45 (1997), 471-479. 18. “Teaching Mendelssohn's Concept of Jewish Singularity: Implications for an Israeli Student”, in R. Jospe (ed.), Paradigms in Jewish Philosophy, London: Associated University Presses, 1997, 147-165. 19. ”Teaching Levinas on Revelation”, in R. Jospe (ed.), Paradigms in Jewish Philosophy, London: Associated University Presses, 1997, 257-279 (= a slightly different version of entry nr. 8). 20. “The Talmudic Hermeneutics of E. Levinas” (Hebrew), in Revista Universidad Hebraica 1,2 (1997), 101-110. 21. ”Die Idee der Teschuwa im Denken André Nehers", in C. Miething (ed.), Judentum und Moderne in Frankreich und Italien (Romania Judaica 2), Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1998, 129-143. 22. “Jewish Dialogical Philosophy and its Implications for Education” (Hebrew), in Hagut - Jewish Educational Thought.1, Jerusalem 1998, 127-141. 23. “The Challenge of Religious Education in the Secular State of Israel”, in C. Miething (ed.), Politik und Religion im Judentum (Romania Judaica 4), Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999, 173-186. 24. “Les écrits professionnels et confessionnels d'Emmanuel Lévinas”, in D. Cohen- Lévinas and S. Trigano (eds.), Emmanuel Lévinas - Philosophie et judaïsme (Pardès 26 ), Paris: In press, 1999, 101-114. 25. ”La philosophie de Lévinas, sacrificielle et naïve? S'agit-il d'un drame? A propos d'un ouvrage récent de Daniel Sibony”, in Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses 81,1 (2001), 63-79. 26. “The Polemic-Ideological Reading and Its Alternative” (Hebrew), in Hagut- Jewish Educational Thought. 2, Jerusalem 2000, 19-34. 27. “Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem from Levinas' Perspective”, in M. New-R. Bernasconi- R.A. Cohen (eds.), In Proximity – Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century, Lubbock Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2001, 243-259. 28. “David Hartman on the Attitudes of Soloveitchik and Heschel towards Christianity”, in J.W. Malino (ed.), Judaism and Modernity: The Religious Philosophy of David Hartman, Jerusalem: Shalom Hartman Institute, 2001, 253-265. 29. “Verità e giustizia nella filosofia di Emmanuel Lévinas in relazione all‟io-tu e all‟io-esso di Martin Buber”, in P.Amodio-G.Giannini-G.Lissa (eds.), Lévinas e la cultura del XX secolo (Cultura Filosofica e Scienze Umane 3), Napoli: Giannini, 2001, pp.209-235. 30. ”Goethe‟s Place in Rosenzweig‟s Star of Redemption” (Hebrew), in Daat. A Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah 48 (2002), 97-107. 31. ”The Unpublished Correspondence Between Franz Rosenzweig and Gritli Rosenstock-Huessy On The Star of Redemption”, in Jewish Studies Quarterly 9 (2002), 21-70. 32. ”Buber‟s Dialogical Interpretation of the Binding of Isaac- between Kierkegaard and Hasidism” (Hebrew), in M. Hallamish- H. Kasher- Y. Silman (eds.), The Faith of Abraham. In the Light of Interpretation throughout the Ages, Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan, 2002, 281-293. 33. “Love and Truth in the Jewish Consciousness according to Abraham Joshua Heschel” (Hebrew), in Hagut-Jewish Educational Thought. 3-4, Jerusalem 2002, 141- 150. 34. “Ethics, Politics and God in the Writings of E. Levinas” (Hebrew), in Democratic Culture, vol. 6 (2002), 111-133. 35. “Les écrits professionnels et confessionnels d‟Emmanuel Lévinas”, in D.Cohen- Lévinas and S. Trigano (eds.), Emmanuel Lévinas. Philosophie et judaïsme (Lettres promises), Paris: In press, 2002, pp.127-143 (= item nr.24). 36. “Truth and Ethics in Levinas‟s Philosophy Compared to Buber‟s I-Thou and I- It”(Hebrew), in Daat. A Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah 50-52 (2003), pp.423-439 (=item nr.29). 37. “The Shoa as a Crime against Humanity: Reflections on Civilization and its Annihilation”, in J.J. Rozenberg (ed.), Bioethical and Ethical Issues Surrounding the Trials and Code of Nuremberg. Nuremberg Revisited (Symposium Series 74), Lewiston NY: Edwin Mellen, 2003, pp.167-186. 38. “‟Transition‟, „Threshold‟ and „Gate‟ in Star of Redemption”, in M.Brasser (ed.), Rosenzweig als Leser. Kontextuelle Kommentare zum “Stern der Erlösung”, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004, pp.509-519. 39. “The Shoa as the Forgetting of the Law. From Lyotard till Bursztein”(Hebrew), in Jean-Gérard Bursztein, Psychoanalysis of Nazism. Essay on the Destruction of Civilization (Hebrew), Tel Aviv: Resling, 2004, pp.9-20. 40. “La notion de la révélation dans la „théologie des profondeurs‟ de Heschel et la métaphysique éthique de Lévinas”, Gérard Rabinovitch (ed.), Abraham J. Heschel . Un tsaddiq dans la cité