The speaker examined the new wave of anti-Semitism around the world in the context of the escalating violence against Israel. To what extent are Israel’s actions linked to the backlash against Jews in general?
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 the Back. Historical Crossroads of the Jewish People” (2009), “The Homeland Was a Book. The Bible, Its Legacy, Its People, and Its Land Until 1880” (2010), and “Since the Eichmann Trial. On Nazism, the Shoah, and Its Trivialization” (2014).