{"id":119988,"date":"2018-01-20T18:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T02:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=119988"},"modified":"2018-01-20T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T02:18:52","slug":"sundance-film-festival-debuts-dark-tale-of-jewish-triplets-split-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=119988","title":{"rendered":"Sundance film festival debuts dark tale of Jewish triplets split at birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Times of Israel<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The triplets, it turned out, were among a number of identical siblings split up as part of a dark 1960s \u201cnature versus nurture\u201d social experiment led by psychoanalyst Peter Neubauer of the Jewish Board of Family and Children\u2019s Services in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Visits by researchers throughout their childhoods were explained away as a \u201cchild development study\u201d when in reality Neubauer was scrutinizing the brothers\u2019 personalities and relationships with their very diverse adoptive families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really didn\u2019t understand just how egregiously these people behaved,\u201d said Kellman, who told AFP all six adoptive parents were angered that they too had been kept in the dark.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we got older, got married, became parents ourselves, we realized how impactful it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

…No one has ever apologized to Shafran or Kellman, and the Jewish Board declined to take part in the documentary.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman told AFP it was \u201ccommitted to providing identified Neubauer study participants access to their records in a timely and transparent manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not the kind of language that sits easily with the brothers, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey refer to us as participants,\u201d says Kellman. \u201cWe weren\u2019t participants, we were victims.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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