ABSTRACT
Arguably the most influential Jewish book from Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century is Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (1981), by journalist and editor Jacobo Timerman. The following segment is Chapter 3. Made into a mediocre TV movie with Liv Ullman and Roy Scheider, the volume is a meditation on freedom and justice that chronicles the tension between the author and the military junta in Argentina in the late seventies. Timerman was placed under house arrest. International pressure eventually allowed him to leave the country and move temporarily to Israel. He also authored the controversial The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon (1982), as well as Chile: Death in the South (1987) and Cuba: A Journey (1990),
