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Book Presentation: “Since the Eichmann Trial: On Nazism, the Holocaust, and Their Trivialization”

July 10, 2014
On July 23, 2014, ORT Pocitos hosted the book launch for *From the Eichmann Trial: On Nazism, the Shoah, and Their Trivialization* by Gustavo Perednik, a visiting professor in the Department of Jewish Studies, published by Universidad ORT Uruguay. The presentation was led by journalist Leonardo Haberkorn, Associated Press correspondent in Montevideo and professor of Journalistic Genres and Introduction to Journalism at the School of Communication and Design, and the author.

The book contains information on the various schools of thought that emerged in the wake of the Holocaust, along with a well-reasoned refutation of each of their distortions, and offers suggestions for educators as a supplement.

Haberkorn is the author of the books *Nine Uruguayan Stories*, *Pablo Bengoechea: The Professor’s Class*, *Tupamaro Stories*, *Chronicles of Blood, Sweat, and Tears*, *Milicos and Tupas*, and *Hidden Narrative: The Unmemories of Víctor Hugo Morales.” He won the Bronze Morosoli Award in the Journalism category in 2002 and the Bartolomé Hidalgo Award in the Journalistic-Political Essay category for “Milicos y Tupas” in 2011.

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).

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