Gustavo Perednik

Gustavo Perednik was born in 1956 in Buenos Aires

Perednik was born in Buenos Aires on October 21, 1956. He was the only child of Marta and Samuel, whose families had fled pogroms in the Russian Empire. He attended the Buenos Aires English High School and the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini.

He studied at the universities of Buenos Aires and Jerusalem. In 1982 a Jerusalem Fellows scholarship brought him to Jerusalem, where he earned an MA in education at the Hebrew University and did doctoral studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York. He later received a PhD in education from ORT Uruguay University.

In Argentina he founded the Centro Hebreo Yonah, which grew into a youth movement of 2,000 members. From 1990 he headed the Four-Year, Freshman and Preparatory Programs at the Hebrew University, and in the 1990s he directed the Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad, where he created a course on Judeophobia. In 2001 he set up the Ai Tian Program for Jewish Understanding in China.

His books are written in Spanish and include novels and essays. In 2009 he published To Kill Without a Trace, about the Iranian terror attacks in Argentina. He lectures at Herzog College and in the Hazon Leumi organization, and lives with his family near Jerusalem.