Prof. Yossef Schwartz is Associate Professor at the Cohn Institute and was the director of the Institute from 2009 until 2015.
He held the Martin Buber Chair for Jewish philosophy of religion at the department of evangelical theology, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, 2000-2002. Further teaching positions at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, and at the University of Heidelberg.
He has held visiting research positions at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.
He is the winner of an ERC Research Grant, dedicated to the study of the translation of "Latin philosophy into Hebrew" (Together with Alexander Fidora and Harvey Hames) and an ISF Research Grant, dedicated to Christian Hebraism and Christian Cabbala.

His publications include: From Cloister to University. Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages, Tel Aviv 1999 [Hebrew]; To Thee is silence praise": Meister Eckhart's reading in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, Tel Aviv 2002 [Hebrew]; Masquerade at the City of God. Pluralism and Tolerance in the Middle Ages, Tel Aviv 2006; (with V. Krech eds.), Religious Apologetics – Philosophical Argumentation [Religion in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 10], Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2004; (with A. Kilcher eds.), Konversion und Wissenstransfer (Morgen-Glanz: Zeitschrift der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft, nr. 20), Peter Lang Verlag 2010; (with A. Wohlman, eds.), CHRÉTIEN POÈTE DE SION. IN MEMORIAM : PÈRE MARCEL-JACQUES DUBOIS, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute / Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House 2012; (with A. Fidora, H. J. Hames eds.), Latin-Into-Hebrew: Studies and Texts, volume 2: Texts in Contexts, Leiden: Brill 2013; "Die verschiedenen Gesichter des einen Gottes: Monotheismus, Offenbarung und Pluralismus zwischen Prämoderne, Moderne und Postmoderne", in A. Fidora (ed.), Philosophische Gotteslehre Heute, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2008, 145 – 167; "On the two sides of the Judaeo-Christian Anti-Muslim Front: Franz Rosenzweig and Muhammad Asad", Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 37 (2009), 63-77; "Divine Law and Human Justification in Medieval Jewish-Christian Polemic", in: M. Lutz-Bachmann/A. Fidora/A. Wagner eds., Lex und Ius: Beiträge zum Grundlegung des Rechts in der Philosophie des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, Frommann-Holzboog 2010, 121 – 147; "Final Phases of Medieval Hebraism: Jews and Christians between Bible Exegesis, Talmud and Maimonidean Philosophy", in: A. Speer/D. Wirmer (eds.), 1308 [Miscelanea mediaevalia 35], W. de Gruyter 2010, 269 – 285; "Meister Eckhart and Moses Maimonides: From Judaeo-Arabic Rationalism to Christian Mysticism", in A Companion to Meister Eckhart [Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 36] (Leiden: Brill 2012): 389-414.