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
[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
[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
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
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"
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
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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
[Hasafran]: In memory of the "desaparecidos"
--- Message requiring your approval -- 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 - Original Message - In memory of the "desaparecidos", 30 years after the military coup in Argentina We Shall Go By Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff And he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go? Genesis 37:30 The context of this verse, which I proposed as an inscription for the monument to the disappeared members of the Jewish community of Córdoba [ Argentina], is overwhelming. And not only on account of what it reveals. For the time being, we have yet to witness anything similar to the pain these pages conjure up. The speaker is Ruben, the eldest of the twelve sons of our third patriarch, Jacob. To say he speaks is to grossly understate the feelings of helplessness palpable in his pitiful and faltering voice, as he seeks answers not to one, but to two questions which I supposein that moment he assumes he will never find: the whereabouts of his younger brother, and consequently, his own. (For who could find himself, if he cannot find his kin?) Perhaps it was the responsibility inherent in being an elder brother that occasioned this outcry that put him at odds with his remaining younger brothers, with the exception of Judah who also wanted no part in the complot and Benjamin who had yet to appear. The problem was Joseph, who, in the eyes of Ruben, had disappeared. The problem is always someone else. That he was the favorite of their father might have been tolerable, had this not been made so obvious by his being made the sole recipient of the fathers legacy, the coat of many colors; the very one destined to become stained blood-red. Moreover, even that he put on airs of grandiosity might have been forgiven him. He might have even been ridiculed on account of them. The problem was something else. The problem was the dreams. Therein lay the crux of the matter. Joseph dreamt. And as if that were not enough, he told of his dreams. The Torah text reveals it clearly: And his brothers went to feed their fathers flock in Shechem. says verse 12. The following four tell us that Jacob sends Joseph to look for his brothers. And that Joseph gets lost along the way, and that he asks for help, and that he gets back on the right track, and that he finds them. The verses that follow warrant no addenda. Heres how they tell it: And when they saw him from far away, even before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and throw him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams. Incredible! Or else all too believable: There are times when one goes in search of ones brothers and might end up thrown down a well. Could it be that it is the vantage point from such a great distance that blurs the human face and makes it lose fraternal qualities that previously had defined it in its essence? Could it be that those precise temporal-spatial coordinates had the ability to make such cowards of those that occupied them that face to face combat was not even considered, and, from the onset, a deceitful course of action was prosecuted, that brutish early-morning secrecy to which the Biblical text majestically refers? It would appear that when one has too many dreams, many who dare not dream by themselves and on their own account, seek to rinse out their deficiencies by causing others to exude their dreams. Behold, this dreamer comes announces the text with rage and reproach, before interspersing the murderous methodology with its attendant falsehood designed to cover so much emptiness, so many undergrounds, so many wells... We shall see what will become of his dreams they say, as if dreams could be halted, as if their march were not independent even of those that dreamt them. An intervention on the part of Ruben, in the end was valid in deterring violence. After another lesser one by Judah, Joseph ends up first in the well, and is later sold as a slave to traveling merchants. And theres Ruben, who looks at the empty void without knowing why, and turns around to face his brothers exclaims: The child is not; and I, where shall I go? So much for the Ge
