Re: [Hasafran]: In memory of the desaparecidos
In keeping with the spirit of what our Argentinian colleague Rita Sacca wrote concerning the desaparecidos, I highly recommend the documentary film ASESINO (Israel, 2002, video, 57 min.) by the outstanding Israeli film maker, Nurit Kedar. This film profiles the victims, murdered by the virulently anti-semitic Argentinian military, and the victims' families, whose lives were torn asumnder by what happened to their loved ones. Another excellent film about the Argentinian situation is TO LIVE WITH TERROR (USA, 2002, video, 58 min.), about the attacks in Buenos Aires in the 1990's. Ton Vriens is the director. The film places these brazen murders in the context of historical anti-Semitism in Argentina, ex- President Carlos Menem's ties to the Arab world and even Israeli government reluctance to pressure the Argentinians to investigate the crimes. B'shalom, Bernard Katz, former head, Special Collections and Library Development McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph author, descriptive bibliog. of L.M. Montgomery's books (in progress) and founding treasurer, AJL - Ontario Ha-Safran (The Librarian) Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [Hasafran]: In memory of the desaparecidos
Jacobo Timerman wrote a book: Prisoner without a name, Cell without a number New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. 164 p. $10.95. ISBN 0-394-51448-3. He was an Argentine newspaper publisher who was arrested in 1977 and finally released after being tortured in 1979. Ha-Safran (The Librarian) Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [Hasafran]: In memory of the desaparecidos
re: Jacopo Timmerman Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number) Furthermore, Timmerman (correction: T) told the story of how his work as a journalist was closed down, Jacopo Timmerman was an Argentian Jew. He was held as a desaparecido, the people who were taken away and kept under secret conditions without access to their families or to the press or to legal representation) many of whom were brutally tortured and murdered, their families given no notification of their whereabouts or the reasons for their captivity. I once heard an account on a N.Y. free press radio by a woman who was a professor whose husband brought her home a baby. Her husband was a person in the military, and they hadn't been able to conceive children. Gradually she realized that the baby had been taken from a prisoner who had disappeared. That her husband was active in taking these prisoners. That the families were in fear of talking about their missing relatives, too. In time she was able to flee and to speak and write of what was happening in Argentina on a broad scale: the disappearance of many citizens taken by the military. Large numbers are still missing. Ha-Safran (The Librarian) Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [Hasafran]: In memory of the desaparecidos
The incident you wrote about was a movie, La Historia Oficial (1985) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089276/ I don't know if it was based on a true story. Tracy Z. Maleeff University of Pittsburgh MLIS '05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ha-Safran (The Librarian) Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[Hasafran]: In memory of the desaparecidos
Not to besmirch the reputation of a man who did defy the generals of the Junta, but Timmerman was persecuted because he was a gad-fly; his being Jewish was incidental. Once he was released, he was welcomed to Israel as a poster boy for Jewish suffering. But he turned on his hosts when he championed the rights of the Palestinians. Once a gad-fly, always a gad-fly. He used his Jewishness when it served him Timmerman was able to survive prison because he was an internationally known journalist and the generals knew that people outside Argentina were watching. He was hardly a desaprecido. If he ever claimed he was, it was for mercenary ends. Los Desaparecidos were ordinary citizens trying to live their ordinary lives, and they had no protectors, as Timmerman did. They are genuine heros whose entire story will never be told. Ha-Safran (The Librarian) Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[Hasafran]: In memory of the desaparecidos
I second Phil Miller's opinion. To tell you the truth many among present Jewish and Israeli heroes only incidentally were Jewish and participated not in Jewish movements and not in Jewish causes, but were embraced as Jewish heroes both in the USA and in Israel. I am not going to besmirch name of any of them, but the mevin yavin. Best wishes, Hayim Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin Adjunct Professor of Jewish Literature Head of Reference Services Gratz College 7605 Old York Rd. Melrose Park, PA 19027 Tel.: 215 635-7300 x 161 Fax: 215 635-7320 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ha-Safran (The Librarian) Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [Hasafran]: In memory of the desaparecidos
re: desaparecidos/ Jacopo Zimmerman After reading Rita Saccal's message, I recalled the article first published in the New Yorker, a letter from Jacopo Zimmerman, a Jewish Journalist who was taken and tortured, yet he lived to write about it. I remember bringing his story, in the late eighties, I think it was, to school where I was teaching. That his story had to be heard. Do others here also recall his ordeal? Chana/ny10025usa .. From: Biblioteca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: In memory of the desaparecidos, 30 years after the military coup in Argentina .. I think that this article should be published in Hasafran. Everybody has to know what happened in Argentina, not only with the Jews, but with many people Jag Pesach Sameaj Rita Saccal Head Librarian Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer Jose Hernandez 1750 4p (1426) Buenos Aires - Argentina 5411 4783-2009/6175 fax 5411 4781-4056 www.seminariorabinico.org.ar .. Ha-Safran (The Librarian) Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
