Michael Wyschogrod
Michael Wyschogrod (* 1928 in Berlin) is an American Jewish religious philosopher.
Life
His parents Paul Wyschogrod and Margaret, born in Hungary, were drawn with her elder son Marcel only a few years before Michael's birth from Budapest, where all economic conditions deteriorated to Berlin. Paul Wyschogrod was an internationally renowned chess champion, but only earned a small income by selling at home working on manufactured products markets. Michael attended the School of Adass Yisroel, who suffered from the departure of teachers and students since 1936 in Berlin. The Wyschogrod family acquired with the help of a brother of the mother in early 1939 entry visas to the United States. Since the emigration via Warsaw to New York led, learned the ten year old Michael for three weeks, Jewish life in Warsaw know shortly before its destruction.
He received the New York City borough of Brooklyn Talmudic education at the Yiddish, Eastern Orthodox Yeshivah Torah embossed Vodaath. 1945 and 1946 he studied for a year Talmud. From 1946 he attended both City College and Yeshiva University in New York. At City College, he encountered the work of Søren Kierkegaard, which moved him to permanent employment with Christian theology. At Yeshiva University, he studied until 1953, Talmud and Jewish philosophy with the leading teachers of the modern American Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi Joseph Ber. From 1949 until his dissertation on Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger in 1953, he studied at the Philososphischen department at Columbia University. At City College, Hunter College and Baruch College of the City University of New York, he taught philosophy and became head of the Philosophy Department of Baruch College. 1992 was appointed professor at the re-established after 33 - year break, Religious Studies Program at the University of Houston and headed from 1996 until his retirement in 2002 the program.
Work
He was a visiting professor at Bar- Ilan University, Tel Aviv, the Graduate Faculty of the New School, New York NY, the Dropsie University, Philadelphia PA, the College of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, Faculty of Theology Lucerne, Bern University, the Theological Seminary Wuppertal, the Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton NJ, Rice University, Houston TX and taught repeatedly even at the christian-Jewish summer School of the Institute Church and Judaism, which from 1987 to 2003 took place initially every two years in his native city. He belongs to the editorial board of the journal tradition. A Journal of Orthodox Thought on.
A comment from him, who caused a sensation, was: " A high Christology sounds idolatrous in Jewish ears"