Gustavo Perednik

Gustavo Daniel Perednik (Hebrew: גוסטבו דניאל פרדניק; 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, 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.