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Lecture: "The Jewish Condition in the Modern World"

April 1, 2011
On Monday, April 11, the lecture "The Jewish Condition in the Modern World," presented by Gustavo D. Perednik and organized by the Department of Jewish Studies, took place at the ORT Centro Auditorium. The speaker will address the main challenges that the modern world poses to Jewish identity.

Perednik is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (cum laude) and 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 honored 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), "Violin on the Back: Historical Crossroads of the Jewish People" (2009), and "The Homeland Was a Book: The Bible, Its Legacy, Its People, and Its Land Until 1880" (2010), published byUniversidad ORT Uruguay.