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Gerardo Leibner

Gerardo Leibner is a professor of Latin American history at Tel Aviv University and a political and social activist in Israel.

born 1965Latin American history researchHeading the Sverdlin InstituteActivism in Ta'ayush

Occupation: author, historian, university teacher, activist
Education: Tel Aviv University

Gerardo Leibner was born in 1965 in Montevideo

Leibner was born in 1965 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the elder of 2 children. His mother Nancy was born in Argentina, and his father Meir Leon Leibner was a cardiologist born in Poland. His parents were communist underground activists under Uruguay's military dictatorship.

In November 1975, after many of their associates were arrested, the family fled to Buenos Aires. After the military coup in Argentina in March 1976 and Operation Condor, they moved to Israel in June 1976.

He completed his studies at Tel Aviv University in 1998 and began teaching there after earning his doctorate. His research covers Latin American Marxism and communism and the social and political history of the Andes. He has studied José Carlos Mariátegui, indigenismo in Peru, the 1960s in Latin America and the Communist Party of Uruguay.

He is an editor of the journal Estudios Interdisciplinarios América Latina y el Caribe and has headed the Sverdlin Institute for Latin American History and Culture since 2005. He is active in Ta'ayush, a Jewish and Arab group opposing the occupation, and in the Tarabut movement.