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Lecture: "From Altneuland to Tel Aviv: Reflections on the First Modern Jewish City"

May 4, 2009
On May 5, the ORT Pocitos Auditorium hosted a lecture titled "From Altneuland to Tel Aviv: Reflections on the First Modern Jewish City," presented by Gustavo Perednik. The event was organized by the Department of Jewish Studies as part of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the city of Tel Aviv.

Perednik is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (cum laude), and he completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at New York University. He studied the humanities at the Sorbonne (France), San Marcos (Peru), and Uppsala (Sweden). He was recognized as an outstanding professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he lectured in several languages. He was invited to give lectures at dozens of American, Spanish, and Chinese universities. He has written more than a dozen books, many of which have won international literary awards, and has published over a thousand articles on Judaism and modernity. Among his published works, we highlight the trilogy “Great Thinkers: Jews in Western Civilization” (2005), “Notable Thinkers: Jews in Western Civilization” (2006), and “Famous Thinkers: Jews in Western Civilization” (2007), as well as “Violin in Hand: Historical Crossroads of the Jewish People” (2009), published by Universidad ORT Uruguay.