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Jacobo Timerman (6 January 1923 – 11 November 1999), born in the Soviet Union, was an Argentine publisher, journalist, and author of Lithuanian Jewish descent, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression. An estimated 15,000 political prisoners were "disappeared."〔 He was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned by the Argentine junta in the late 1970s and exiled in 1979 with his wife to Israel. He was widely honored for his work as a journalist and publisher. In Israel, Timerman wrote and published his most well-known book, ''Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without a Number'' (1981), a memoir of his prison experience that added to his international reputation. A longtime Zionist, he published a strongly critical book about Israel's 1982 Lebanon war.〔 He returned to Argentina in 1984,〔 and testified to the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons. He continued to write, publishing books in 1987 about Chile under the Augusto Pinochet regime and in 1990 about Cuba under Fidel Castro. ==Life in Argentina== Timerman was born in Bar, Ukraine, to Jewish parents Eve Berman and Nathan Timerman.〔〔Penny Lernoux, "Israeli Arms Sales Imperil Vital Latin Friendships", in Israel Shahak, ''Israel's Global Role: Weapons for Repression'' (Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Belmont, Massachusetts, 1981), p. 53〕 To escape the persecution of Jews and pogroms there, the family emigrated to Argentina in 1928, when he was five years old and his brother Joseph was seven. The family lived in the Jewish area of Buenos Aires, restricted by their poverty to occupying a single room.〔Richard H. Curtiss, "(In Memoriam: Jacobo Timerman, 1923–1999 )", ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'' XIX (1), February 2000, p. 59.〕〔Molly Ivins, "(One of the great heroes is gone )", ''Creators Syndicate'', 14 November 1999.〕 Timerman took a job at age 12 after the death of his father.〔 While young, Timerman lost an eye due to infection.〔 Timerman became a Zionist as a young man. He met his future wife, Risha Mindlin,〔(Obituary: "Jacobo Timerman" ), ''The Independent''〕 at a Zionist conference in Mendoza. (Her surname has also been reported as Midlin.)〔〔 They married on 20 May 1950 in a simple ceremony at the Mindlin house. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacobo Timerman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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