The Department of Jewish Studies at Universidad ORT Uruguay CEJ Uruguay (Center for Jewish Studies) organized the lecture “The Jewish Condition in Paul of Tarsus,” presented by Argentine philosopher and professor Santiago Kovadloff. The event took place on November 20, 2019, at the university’s Pocitos campus.
Throughout his life, the great apostle of Jesus identified himself as a Jew. What did he mean by that? How did he reconcile his claim to Jewish identity with his devotion to Christ?
Kovadloff holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Business and Social Sciences in Argentina. He is an honorary professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a member of the Academic and Scientific Committee at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He is a full member of the Argentine Academy of Letters, a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy, and a member of the Argentine Chapter of the Club of Rome.
He is a regular contributor to the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación. He served as a member of the Ethics Tribunal of the Jewish Community of Buenos Aires. He is the author of the books *The Primordial Silence*, *Essays on Intimacy*, *The Inevitable*, *The Meaning and Risk of Everyday Life*, *A Biography of Rain*, *The Pressures of the Day*, and *The Enigma of Suffering*, among others.
Prof. Charlotte de Grünberg, President of Universidad ORT Uruguay, alongside the speaker, Prof. Santiago Kovadloff