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Natasha Zaretsky
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Dr. Natasha Zaretsky is a cultural anthropologist focusing on human rights, genocide, migration, and the politics of memory and truth in the Americas. Her latest book, Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers University Press) examines transitional justice and memory in Argentina. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer at New York University and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, where she leads the Truth in the Americas program.
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a new opportunity to revitalize the meaning of the commemorations that have been important to justice and human rights ... Read More
Twenty-five years after the bombing of Argentina’s largest Jewish community center, family members of the 85 victims are still haunted by the unsolved ... Read More
The conclusion of the trials over human rights abuses committed in the Navy medical school (ESMA) is a milestone in Argentina’s reckoning with its past. Read More
President Macri signed a decree prohibiting the application of the 2x1 law to repressors from the Dirty War, following the public outcry that would have ... Read More
A #SanctuaryCampus movement has taken hold across U.S. universities. By collectively supporting and providing a voice to undocumented students’ fears and ... Read More
Today, President Obama will stand in the Park of Memory in Buenos Aires, along the edge of the River Plate, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day ... Read More
It’s been one year since Alberto Nisman was found dead on the very morning he was due to testify before the Argentina Congress about his investigation ... Read More
Despite the shrinking size of their community over the years due to emigration, Cuba’s remaining Jews have done their best to sustain their ritual and ... Read More