Wed, Feb 25
06:30PM
Wed, Feb 25
06:30PM
panel discussion
Argentina and the Nisman Case: Why is it so Hard to Understand What Really Happened?
The mysterious death of Argentina's federal prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, has become a subject of endless speculation. His death is just the latest event in a case that has enveloped its protagonists since it began with the Jewish Community Center (AMIA) bombing of 1994, the worst terrorist attack in Argentina's history, and the deadliest anti-Jewish attack since WWII. Argentine journalists Graciela Mochkofsky, current Prins Foundation Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, Gabriel Pasquini and Jonathan Blitzer of The New Yorker discuss why there has been no justice in the 20-year-old case, put recent events in their correct context, and explain why almost everything you've read about it is wrong.
Biographies:
Jonathan Blitzer is on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, where he wrote a recent piece about Nisman. He is a journalist, critic, and translator. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, Prospect (UK), n+1, and Bookforum. He has lived in Argentina, Madrid, and Lisbon, and is now based in New York. He was a Fulbright scholar (2010-11).
Graciela Mochkofsky is an Argentine journalist and author, widely considered one of Argentina’s most important nonfiction writers. She writes about the relationship between the media and the political and economic powers of Argentina and was one of the first reporters to arrive at and record the scene of the AMIA bombing on the morning of July 18, 1994. Mochkofsky is the author of six books, two of which deal with this subject, as does her recent biography of Jacobo Timerman. She is currently a Prins Foundation Fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York, researching a book about an unprecedented wave of mass conversions to Judaism throughout Latin America, to be published by Knopf in 2017. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and a 2014 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library.
Gabriel Pasquini is an Argentine author and journalist. He covered national politics and the world of the intelligence apparatus for over two decades, writing for Buenos Aires’ premier newspapers and magazines. He wrote about the AMIA bombing case for 10 years after the event for some of the most important Argentine newspapers. Pasquini is a contributor to South American and European publications such as Piaui (Brazil) and Internazionale (Italy), the author of three books of investigative journalism, two critically acclaimed novels and an award-winning theatre play. He was the founder and editor of the Spanish language online magazine el puercoespin.
For a film related to the Jews of Argentina, please visit www.nysephardifilmfestival.org.
Biographies:
Jonathan Blitzer is on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, where he wrote a recent piece about Nisman. He is a journalist, critic, and translator. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, Prospect (UK), n+1, and Bookforum. He has lived in Argentina, Madrid, and Lisbon, and is now based in New York. He was a Fulbright scholar (2010-11).
Graciela Mochkofsky is an Argentine journalist and author, widely considered one of Argentina’s most important nonfiction writers. She writes about the relationship between the media and the political and economic powers of Argentina and was one of the first reporters to arrive at and record the scene of the AMIA bombing on the morning of July 18, 1994. Mochkofsky is the author of six books, two of which deal with this subject, as does her recent biography of Jacobo Timerman. She is currently a Prins Foundation Fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York, researching a book about an unprecedented wave of mass conversions to Judaism throughout Latin America, to be published by Knopf in 2017. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and a 2014 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library.
Gabriel Pasquini is an Argentine author and journalist. He covered national politics and the world of the intelligence apparatus for over two decades, writing for Buenos Aires’ premier newspapers and magazines. He wrote about the AMIA bombing case for 10 years after the event for some of the most important Argentine newspapers. Pasquini is a contributor to South American and European publications such as Piaui (Brazil) and Internazionale (Italy), the author of three books of investigative journalism, two critically acclaimed novels and an award-winning theatre play. He was the founder and editor of the Spanish language online magazine el puercoespin.For a film related to the Jews of Argentina, please visit www.nysephardifilmfestival.org.
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