1/6 | Birthday of Jacobo Timerman
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 6 Birthday of Jacobo Timerman, Argentine Writer & Human Rights Activist Today is the birthday of Jacobo Timerman, born in Bar, Podolia Province, Ukraine on January 6, 1923. Raised in the Once neighborhood, Timeran was active in the leftist Zionist youth movement haShomer haTzair. He rose to prominence as a journalist and founder of the Buenos Aires, La Opinión. He defied the military junta by calling attention to the government’s campaign of terror against civilians in Argentina during the Guerra Sucia, or Dirty War, beginning in 1975. In 1977,...
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