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. Jac...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.