On Monday, the 26th, a lecture titled “A Century That Began Fourteen Years Late” was held. The speaker examined the circumstances surrounding the outbreak of World War I and the role of Jews in the conflict.
On Tuesday, the 27th, the lecture “The Voice of the 20th Century” took place. The speaker examined Expressionism as a reflection in art of the general sense of disorientation, in the context of the 90th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death. He analyzed the loss of values, perspective, and faith that permeated Kafka’s literature.
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 in New York. 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. Universidad ORT Uruguay his trilogy on “Jews in Western Civilization”: “Great Thinkers” (2005), “Notable Thinkers” (2006), and “Famous Thinkers” (2007), “Violin on His 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).