Gustavo Perednik
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Gustavo Daniel Perednik ( he, גוסטבו דניאל פרדניק; born 1956) is an Argentinian-born Israeli author and educator. Perednik graduated from the Universities of
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and Jerusalem (
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), has a PhD in education (
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) and completed doctoral studies in Philosophy in New York. He took courses at the
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(France),
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(Peru), and
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(Sweden). He was distinguished as an outstanding lecturer at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
, where he ran the four-year, preparatory, and freshman programs. In
Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, he was also Director of the Institute for Jewish Leaders from Abroad and the Sephardic Educational Centre. He ran the ''Ai Tian Program for Jewish Understanding'' in China, and the Program for Education on the Jewish Role in Civilization. He resides with his family on the outskirts of Jerusalem. An expert on
Antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...
, or Judeophobia, Perednik was guest lecturer at more than 100 cities in 50 countries, and has published 15 books and more than 1,000 articles on
Judaism Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in the ...
and modernity. He lectures on philosophy and on the History of Zionism in the Rimonim Program of
Herzog College Herzog College ( he, מכללת הרצוג, ''Mikhlelet Herzog'') is an Israeli teachers' college with campuses in Jerusalem, Alon Shvut and Migdal Oz. History Herzog College is named for Yaakov Herzog, an Israeli diplomat, scholar and son of Isr ...
, Israel.


Biography

Perednik was born in
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,
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, on October 21, 1956, the only child of Marta (1925–2001) and Samuel (1923–1994), first-generation Argentines born to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He studied at the Buenos Aires English High School, and the
Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini The Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini (''Carlos Pellegrini High School of Commerce'', ESCCP) is a public high school in Buenos Aires, and it is one of the most prestigious in Argentina and Latin America. Founded on February 19, 189 ...
.


Community work

He taught in a number of Jewish institutions throughout Latin America, and founded the ''Centro Hebreo Yonah'' of Argentina, which he developed into a youth movement of 2,000 members. A member of th
Sino-Judaic Institute
in 2001 he established in China the Ai Tian Program of Jewish Understanding through which he lectured in many Chinese universities and high schools. His published several essays on the relation between the Jews and the Chinese. In June 2006, after a lecturing tour in several towns of Galicia, Spain, he founded the Association of Gallegan Friends of Israel
AGAI
.


First books

In 1980, his novella ''There at the Santanders'' was awarded the ''Victoria Ocampo Literary Prize'', and it was published in English in the ''Stories'' magazine of Boston in 1985. In 1982, he obtained a ''Jerusalem Fellows Scholarship'' to study in Jerusalem for a three-year period, during which he completed his MA in education at the Hebrew University (''cum laude'') and his doctoral studies at
The Jewish Theological Seminary The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a Conservative Judaism, Conservative Jewish education organization in New York City, New York (state), New York. It is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism and a major center fo ...
of New York. Perednik pursued Talmudic studies first under Rabbi Theodore Friedmann, and then at the Dvar Yerushalayim Yeshiva. He was married in 1985 to Ruth Kestenbaum, an educational psychologist from London, with whom he has five children. Perednik's novel ''Achitophel'', a fantasy on suicide, was published in 1988, and it received the ''Literary International Prize Fernando Jeno'' of Mexico. That year he was invited to lecture for one month in Los Angeles by the Sephardic Educational Center, and since then he has lectured in 100 cities in more than 50 countries. In 1989, his two-volume book ''I am a Hebrew'' was published. The following year. the Hebrew University appointed him as head of the Four-Year, Freshman and Preparatory Programs, where he lectured for many years. During the 1990s, he was director of the ''Institute Youth Leaders from Abroad''. His essay on Judaism and Ecology was published in 1990, and received the ''Keren Kayemet Prize'', and in 1992 his novel ''Lemech'' was published in Tel Aviv, a fictional history of WWII with
Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts in ...
,
Bertha Pappenheim Bertha Pappenheim (27 February 1859 – 28 May 1936) was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association (''). Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best-documented pat ...
, and
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as main protagonists.


Judeophobia and other books

At the Institute for Youth Leaders Perednik created a course on
Judeophobia Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...
, which he taught in several languages and was published as a book in many editions. He taught a full course on Judeophobia at several universities in Israel, Spain, and Latin America. In 2004 he published in
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''Spain Derailed'', with a prologue by
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, about Islamic terrorism and the inadequate response of the West. Since 2004, Perednik has given courses at the ORT Uruguay University on the Jewish contribution to civilization, about which he published three books. In 2008, Perednik created an exhibition on the subject, which was presented in main venues in Argentina. His novel ''Darwin’s Silence'' was published in 2007, and it was analyzed in a doctoral thesis for the
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, Sweden. In 2009, his book ''To Kill Without a Trace'' was published, about the Iranian terror attacks in Argentina. The book was presented in a number of cities in Israel, Argentina, and Latin America. That year, Pablo Besaron publishe
''La conspiración''
on Argentine literature, which includes a chapter on Perednik's novels. In 2010, a course on Perednik's novels was given at the Asociacion Argentina de Cultura Inglesa.


Work

*There at the Santanders (1980)

*I am a Hebrew (1989) *Protection of Four Thousand Years – Judaism and Ecology (1990) *Lemech (1992)

* ttp://www.ort.edu.uy/sobreort/pdf/libroperednik.pdf Great Thinkers (2005)br>Darwin’s Silence (2006)
*Outstanding Thinkers (2006) *Famous Thinkers (2007)
The innovator and his environmentProgram for Jewish Education
*To Kill Without a Trace (2009) *The Motherland was a Book (2010) on the influence of the Hebrew Bible in Western Civilization *Mankind and Chess (2012) *Kafkania (2012) *An Autopsy of Socialism (2013), coauthored with economist
Alberto Benegas Lynch Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertin ...
*Sabra (2014), coauthored with
Marcos Aguinis Marcos Aguinis (born 13 January 1935) is an Argentine writer. Trained in medical studies, music and psychoanalysis, his work and his thoughts are focused on the notions of independence, democracy and rejection of authoritarianism. He is a propone ...
*To Die for Argentina (2017) about the assassination of his friend
Alberto Nisman Natalio Alberto Nisman (5 December 1963 – 18 January 2015) was an Argentine lawyer who worked as a federal prosecutor, noted for being the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, th ...
Essays in Anthologies: * ''Naïve Spanish Judeophobia'', in the ''Jewish Political Studies Review'' 15:3–4, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Fall 2003, pages 87–110. * ''L’Espagne'' en ''Les habits neufs de l’antisemitisme en Europe, Collection Dissidence'', Éditions Café Noir, Paris, 2004, pages 133–53. * ''The Chinese of Jewish Descent at Kaifeng'', in'' Alternative Orientalisms'', Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2007


References


External links


Dr.Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Gustavo Perednik


an

(in Spanish)


Audio: Entrevista al Dr. Gustavo Perednik y R. Roni Gurwicz
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