Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number - Softcover

Timerman, Jacobo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394751310 ISBN 13: 9780394751313

Publisher: Random House USA Paperbacks, 1982

Synopsis

164pp , IN ENGLISH, ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Jacobo Timerman ( January 6, 1923 hasta November 11, 1999 ) was an editor , journalist and writer who was persecuted and honored to address the atrocities committed by the Argentine military regime in Argentina's Dirty War . Born in Bar, Ukraine, Timerman and his family emigrated to Argentina in the 1960s 1928.Durante , Timerman was established as a popular journalist and , before the decade had ended , and was able to establish two different magazines weekly News . Later, in 1971-1977 , Timerman edited and published the leftist newspaper La Opinión. Under his direction , this news published paper and criticism from human rights violations in Argentina during the government of the early years of the Dirty War , as a result of investigations into his relationship with David Graiver . [ 1] On April 15, 1977 , Timerman was arrested by the military. Thereafter , he was tortured by electric shocks , beatings and solitary confinement. These experiences are recounted in his 1981 book Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number and a 1983 film of the same name . The Armed Forces took power in 1966 , overthrowing President Illia , began an unpopular , characterized by its violent actions against the universities of Argentina and its policy of establishing strict and conservative Catholic moral and repressive regime . [ Edit] Lavida in Israel After his release from prison in September 1979 , Timerman was forced into exile and went to Tel Aviv , Israel. A year after the publication of Prisoner without a Name, Cell without number , he threw the longest war . This book was a detailed and staff early 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon response. [ Edit] Return to Argentina Sometime after the publication of the longest war , Timerman moved to Madrid and then to New York. Finally , in 1984 , he returned to Buenos Aires. Three years later , in 1987 , launched Timerman Chile : Death in the South, a critical examination of life under dictator Au

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Review

" It ranks with Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" in its examination of the totalitarian mind, the role of anti-Semitism, the silence." -- Eliot Fremont-Smith, "Village Voice"

" It is impossible to read this proud and piercing account of [Timerman' s] suffering and his battles without wanting to be counted as one of Timerman's friends." -- Michael Walzer, "New York Review of Books"

" At two in the morning of April 15, 1977, twenty armed men in civilian clothes arrested Jacobo Timerman, editor and publisher of a leading Buenos Aires newspaper. Thus began thirty months of imprisonment, torture, and anti-Semitic abuse. . . . Unlike 15,000 other Argentines, ' the disappeared, ' Timerman was eventually released into exile. His testimony [is] gripping in its human stories, not only of brutality but of courage and love; important because it reminds us how, in our world, the most terrible fantasies may become fact." -- "New York Times, Books of the Century"

"It ranks with Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" in its examination of the totalitarian mind, the role of anti-Semitism, the silence."--Eliot Fremont-Smith, "Village Voice"

"Timerman was a living reminder that real prophets are irritants and not messengers of reassurance. He told it like it is, whether in Argentina, Israel, Europe, or the United States."--Arthur Miller

It ranks with Hannah Arendt s "Eichmann in Jerusalem" in its examination of the totalitarian mind, the role of anti-Semitism, the silence. Eliot Fremont-Smith, "Village Voice""

Timerman was a living reminder that real prophets are irritants and not messengers of reassurance. He told it like it is, whether in Argentina, Israel, Europe, or the United States. Arthur Miller"

At two in the morning of April 15, 1977, twenty armed men in civilian clothes arrested Jacobo Timerman, editor and publisher of a leading Buenos Aires newspaper. Thus began thirty months of imprisonment, torture, and anti-Semitic abuse. . . . Unlike 15,000 other Argentines, the disappeared, Timerman was eventually released into exile. His testimony [is] gripping in its human stories, not only of brutality but of courage and love; important because it reminds us how, in our world, the most terrible fantasies may become fact. New York Times, Books of the Century"

It ranks with Hannah Arendt s Eichmann in Jerusalem in its examination of the totalitarian mind, the role of anti-Semitism, the silence. Eliot Fremont-Smith, Village Voice"

It is impossible to read this proud and piercing account of [Timerman s] suffering and his battles without wanting to be counted as one of Timerman s friends. Michael Walzer, New York Review of Books"

About the Author

Jacobo Timerman (1923-1999) was born in the Ukraine, moved with his family to Argentina in 1928, and was deported to Israel in 1980. He returned to Argentina in 1984. Founder of two Argentine weekly newsmagazines in the 1960s and a commentator on radio and television, he was best-known as the publisher and editor of the newspaper La Opinion from 1971 until his arrest in 1977. An outspoken champion of human rights and freedom of the press, he criticized all repressive governments and organizations, regardless of their political ideologies. His other books include The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon; Cuba: A Journey; and Chile: A Death in the South. "Luminous."--Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House USA Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0394751310
• ISBN 13: 9780394751313
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 164