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Gustavo Daniel Perednik (; born 1956) is an Argentinian-born Israeli author and educator.
Perednik graduated from the Universities of Buenos Aires and Jerusalem (cum laude), has a PhD in education (Universidad ORT Uruguay) and completed doctoral studies in Philosophy in New York. He took courses at the Sorbonne (France), San Marcos (Peru), and Uppsala (Sweden). He was distinguished as an outstanding lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he ran the four-year, preparatory, and freshman programs. In Jerusalem, he was also Director of the Institute for Jewish Leaders from Abroad and the Sephardic Educational Centre. He ran the Ai Tian Program for Jewish Understanding in China, and the Program for Education on the Jewish Role in Civilization. He resides with his family on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
An expert on Antisemitism, or Judeophobia,Anatoly Shcharansky (2026). 9789652180575, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. . ISBN 9789652180575 Perednik was guest lecturer at more than 100 cities in 50 countries, and has published 15 books and more than 1,000 articles on Judaism and modernity.
He lectures on philosophy and on the History of Zionism in the Rimonim Program of Herzog College, Israel.
Perednik's novel Achitophel, a fantasy on suicide, was published in 1988, and it received the Literary International Prize Fernando Jeno of Mexico. That year he was invited to lecture for one month in Los Angeles by the Sephardic Educational Center, and since then he has lectured in 100 cities in more than 50 countries.
In 1989, his two-volume book I am a Hebrew was published. The following year. the Hebrew University appointed him as head of the Four-Year, Freshman and Preparatory Programs, where he lectured for many years. During the 1990s, he was director of the Institute Youth Leaders from Abroad.
His essay on Judaism and Ecology was published in 1990, and received the Keren Kayemet Prize, and in 1992 his novel Lemech was published in Tel Aviv, a fictional history of WWII with Freud, Bertha Pappenheim, and Eduard Hanslick as main protagonists.
In 2004, he published in Barcelona Spain Derailed, with a prologue by Pilar Rahola, about Islamic terrorism and the inadequate response of the West. Since 2004, Perednik has given courses at the ORT Uruguay University on the Jewish contribution to civilization, about which he published three books. In 2008, Perednik created an exhibition on the subject, which was presented in main venues in Argentina.
His novel Darwin’s Silence was published in 2007, and it was analyzed in a doctoral thesis for the Stockholm University, Sweden. In 2009, his book To Kill Without a Trace was published, about the Iranian terror attacks in Argentina. The book was presented in a number of cities in Israel, Argentina, and Latin America. That year, Pablo Besaron published La conspiración, on Argentine literature, which includes a chapter on Perednik's novels. In 2010, a course on Perednik's novels was given at the Asociacion Argentina de Cultura Inglesa.
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