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Archive 2005

Teachers courses events

 

„Work of a Translator of Hebrew Literature into Polish”, meeting with the translator Leszek Kwiatkowski
 - November 23, at 6:00 pm - the Polish Institute

- November 24, at 7:30 pm – The Hebrew University, Belgium House, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, please contact Branly, cell phone 054-4873281

Leszek Kwiatkowski - musician and translator of Hebrew literature into Polish. In addition to Amos OZ’s novel “Tale About Love and Darkness”published this year in Poland and which gains popularity there, Leszek also translated “Return from India” by A.B. Yehoshua, essays by Joram Bronowski, experts of novels by Yoram Kaniuk, Yoel Hoffman and Yaakov Shabtay. He is presently translating David Grossman’s novel
 “Someone to run with”.


“Boundries of disbelief – relation between faith and secularity in Poland”
meeting with Prof. Jan Wolenski

November 1st, at 7:30 pm – the Hebrew University, Belgium House,
Givat Ram, Jerusalem, please contact Branly, mobile: 054-4873281 054-4873281

November 2nd, at 6:00pm - the Polish Institute, phone: 03-7411955

Prof. Jan Woleński -Polish philosopher, continuator of the Lvov-Warsaw School, he works, among others, on the philosophy of language and on epistemology. Since 1991 he is Philosophy Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, he has philosophical and legal education.

Main works by Prof. Jan Wolenski:

  • Questions of Analitical Philosophy of Law, Quaestiones ad philosophiam analyticam iuris pertinentes, Warsaw, PWN, 1980.

  • The Lvov-Warsaw School of Philosophy, Warsaw, PWN, 1985.

  • Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School, Dordrecht, London, Kluwer, 1989.

  • Kotarbiński, Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw, 1990.

  • Kotarbinski: Logic, Semantics and Ontology (ed.), Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

  • Metamatematics in relation to epistemology, Warsaw, PWN, 1993.

  • Philosophical Logic in Poland (ed.), Dordrecht, London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

  • Towards logics, Aureus, Krakow, 1996. (choice of articles)

  • The Lvov-Warsaw School in Polemics, Warsaw, Scholar, 1997.

  • Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle : Austro-Polish Connections in Logical Empiricism, published together with Eckehart Köhler, Dordrecht, London, Kluwer Academic, 1999.

  • Surroundings of Law Philosophy, Universitas, Cracow, 1999.

  • Epistemology, 3 volumes, Aureus, Cracow, 2000.

  • Boundries of Disbelief, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Cracow, 2004.

 

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