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Angst vor komplexen historischen Themen kann dem österreichischen Romancier Franzobel niemand nachsagen. Nach dem Roman über das »Floß der Medusa« (2017), der von Théodore Géricaults legendärem, im Pariser Louvre hängenden Gemälde aus dem 19. Jahrhundert ausging, hat sich Franzobel nun einer Geschichte der Grausamkeit und des Kolonialismus angenommen.
Mit seinem neuen Roman »Die Eroberung Amerikas« schildert er die sogenannte Entdeckungsreise des Spaniers Hernando de Soto im 16. Jahrhundert, den er Ferdinand Desoto nennt. Diese Entdeckungsfahrten waren immer mit Gewalt, Vernichtung und Ausplünderung verbunden und hatten dazu noch die Absolution der Kirche, die auf diesen Schiffen mitfuhr, damit die Zwangschristianisierung gewährleistet war.
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Arizona Jewish Post shuts down after 75 years
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(JTA) - The Arizona Jewish Post, a 75-year-old community publication covering the Jewish population of Tucson and southern Arizona, announced it would cease operations effective March 1.
The Jewish Community Federation of Southern Arizona, which owns and operates the Post, announced the closure in an email to subscribers this week. The letter cited declines in ad revenue and readership, loss of philanthropic support and the COVID-19 pandemic as factors that contributed to the Post s unsustainable position.
The letter was signed by the federation s CEO, Graham Hoffman, and COO, Lindsey Bak.
Judicial Thugs Are Destroying Los Angeles Details
MY TURN The inherent power in being a judge has always attracted sadistic predators and Los Angeles is no exception.
Genesis 18:1–22:24 includes the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and their corrupt judges whose perfidy caused the cities’ destruction. As Midrash Pirkei Eliezer relates, Lot’s daughter was sentenced to death for giving bread to a poor person. She called out to God, who dispatched his investigator angels to scope out the situation. As we know, she was not crying wolf. After God found out that the four evil judges had corrupted the entire city, He (or She) sent fire and brimstone (whatever that is). Thus, perhaps our earliest political philosophy treatise addressed the destructive nature of a corrupt judiciary.