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NOTES
1. Jewish
mother (née Juana Heller), non-Jewish
father. See, e.g., Trayectorias
musicales judeo-argentinas, by Ana
Weinstein, Roberto Nasatsky, and Miryam Gover de
Nasatsky (AMIA, Buenos Aires, 1998, pp.
12-14). Moshé Korin, writing in the 3 May
2012 edition of the Argentine-Jewish publication La
Voz, states
that Martha Argerich informed AMIA in the late
1990s that her mother was Jewish and requested to
be included in AMIA's forthcoming book on
Argentine-Jewish musicians. He further
states that Juana Heller came from a family of
Jewish immigrants who were part of the
Russian-Jewish resettlement program sponsored by
the German-Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de
Hirsch, who established large agricultural
colonies in Argentina as a means of alleviating
the poverty and persecution suffered by the Jews
of Russia in the late nineteenth century.
(AMIA is the Asociación Mutual Israelita
Argentina, a Jewish community organization whose
building in Buenos Aires was bombed in 1994,
killing eighty-five people and injuring more than
three hundred others. Argentine prosecutors
have traced responsibility for this atrocity to
the Iranian Supreme National Security Council,
whose secretary at the time was none other than
that well-known "moderate" Hassan Rouhani, the
current Iranian president. Although
there have been conflicting claims concerning
Rouhani's direct culpability, it is
noteworthy that he was at the time also national
security advisor to then-president Ali Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani, who the Argentines claim gave
final approval for the bombing, along with the
then-and-current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei.)
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