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.

[1] An expert on Antisemitism, or Judeophobia,[2] Perednik was guest lecturer at more than 100 cities in 50 countries,[3] and has published 15 books and more than 1,000 articles on Judaism and modernity.

He studied at the Buenos Aires English High School, and the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini.

He taught in a number of Jewish institutions throughout Latin America, and founded the Centro Hebreo Yonah of Argentina, which he developed into a youth movement of 2,000 members.

A member of the Sino-Judaic Institute, in 2001 he established in China the Ai Tian Program of Jewish Understanding through which he lectured in many Chinese universities and high schools.

[4] Perednik's novel Achitophel, a fantasy on suicide, was published in 1988, and it received the Literary International Prize Fernando Jeno of Mexico.