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Title:Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
Author:Jacobo Timerman
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 184 pages
Published:August 20th 2002 by University of Wisconsin Press (first published January 1st 1980)
Categories:History. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Writing. Journalism. Biography
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Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number Paperback | Pages: 184 pages
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The bestselling, classic personal chronicle of the Argentine publisher's ordeal at the hands of the Argentine government--imprisoned and tortured as a dissenter and as a Jew--that aroused the conscience of the world.

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 news magazines in the 1960s and a commentator on radio and television, he was best-known as the publisher and editor of the newspaper La Opinión 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.

The Americas, Ilan Stavans, Series Editor

Winner of a 1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Selected by the New York Times for "Books of the Century"

With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans and a new foreword by Arthur Miller.



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Original Title: Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas)
ISBN: 0299182444 (ISBN13: 9780299182441)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (1981), CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non Fiction (1981)


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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number is not the book I was expecting. It has the reputation of being a lyrical account of being a political prisoner and torture victim, and I had in mind that it would be an impressionistic, almost magic realism style narrative. Instead it is much more prosaic and analytical, which, given Jacobo Timermans journalistic background (he was arrested for his editing and writing for the daily La Opinión) is what I should have expected.Nevertheless this is an

Bearing witness in mediocre form.

Good grief, I could not finish this short book fast enough. I thought it would be about the experience of a prisoner under Argentina's dictatorship. Wrong. That becomes nearly a side story, allowing Timerman to expound upon anti-Semitism and Zionism. Had the book actually been about being a prisoner, I would have found it much more rewarding. The passages that do deal with it are extremely well-written and both extremely disturbing and enlightening. The depiction of a dehumanizing system is very

Read this for my politics of torture class, comparing to the other books we read. I felt he spent of time just talking about all the philosophers and other books he reads and referencing a lot of other literature I was not familiar with which might be interesting/informative if I had read those/was familiar with them but I was not. Much preferred the writing style of the Question and the Dawn Prayer, but this was less "painful" to read in the sense of less just overt torture scenes. That said,

In the Prison Literature course I took with Elie Wiesel this book wasnt assigned, but it was on the short list; now I know why. Timerman was a crusading, cranky journalist who edited Argentinas outspoken newspaper during the 70s when the country was being torn apart by death squads of the Right, guerrillas of the Left, and a military that contributed to disappearing over 15,000, 10% were Jews. Because of his criticism of state-sanctioned violence Timerman was arrested, tortured and held mostly

Part autobiography, political analysis, and cautionary tale for our own times in the U.S., about a Ukranian immigrant who became a prominent journalist in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the 1970s who was imprisoned, without a formal charge, tortured, and placed in solitary confinement by the totalitarian regime then in power. The muzzling of the press was just one consequence of the tyranny that descended on a once sophisticated society that fell into irrationality. As the author writes: "Everything

As an Argentinian, I am deeply interested in the history of the dirty war, but ultimately this book didn't deliver and I couldn't finish. I thought the narrative was rambling. He would jump from topic to topic without transition and I could never really follow. I did learn a few things a long the way and he does have really poignant and compelling scenes.