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Conference: “A Decade Since Ilan Halimi – Judeophobia Reconsidered”

July 5, 2016
On July 5, 2016, the Pocitos Campus hosted the lecture “A Decade Since Ilán Halimi – Judeophobia Reconsidered,” presented by Gustavo Perednik, a visiting professor in the Department of Jewish Studies. The speaker reflected on the old and new faces of Judeophobia a decade after the murder of the young French Jew.
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.

He is the author of numerous books and articles. Universidad ORT Uruguay his works 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), 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 Holocaust, and Their Trivialization (2014).

The event was organized by the Department of Jewish Studies.