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Nach dem Tod des berühmten Hofjuden Leffmann Behrens in Hannover übernahmen seine Enkel dessen Firma, doch wurden sie 1721 ohne Beweise von der kurfürstlichen Justiz wegen Bankrottbetrugs angeklagt. Sie bekannten auch unter Folter nichts und blieben fünf Jahre im Kerkerturm. Berndt Strobach präsentiert den Fall nach dem archivalischen Befund und analysiert ihn in juristischer, ökonomischer und psychologischer Hinsicht. Einer der beiden Enkel verfasste einen persönlichen Opferbericht auf Jiddisch, der in der Edition von Simon Neuberg im Band enthalten ist. Sie wird begleitet von der ausführlich kommentierten Transliteration sowie der Übersetzung des Autors ins Hochdeutsche. Man gewinnt Einblicke in vormoderne Rechtsverhältnisse, aber auch in die Lebensweise der jüdischen ökonomischen Elite. Die Megillah-Transliteration bietet die reizvolle Möglichkeit, Erlebnisse in einer Sprache nachzuvollziehen, wie sie ein Jahrtausend lang von deutschen Juden gesprochen wurde.

Hannover 1720, Bankrott, Folter, Hofjuden, Jiddisch.

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Algerienkrieg. --- Erlebnisbericht. --- Folter. --- Geschichte 1954-1962. --- Algeria --- History --- Atrocities

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Cults --- Deprogramming --- Klinische psychologie --- Sects --- specifieke problemen. --- Sekten --- Indoktrination --- Anwerbung --- Moon --- religiösen Heilsanspruch --- Machtdrang --- Gehirnwäsche --- seelische Folter --- Ausstieg --- Sektenkinder --- Traumatische Sektenerlebnisse --- Fundamentalismus

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'A deeply original work of scholarship. Through fine close readings of primary and secondary texts, the author offers the fullest account we have of the related phenomena of pain, sympathy, and sensation in early modern culture.' Michael Schoenfeldt, John R. Knott, Jr., Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During the early modern period, Protestant theologians came to reject these assumptions, and attempted to redefine and circumscribe the spiritual meaning of suffering. The rethinking of the meaning of pain during the early modern era is the central theme of this book. The author pays particular attention to how literary writers explored the issue of pain, by placing their work in a broad context of devotional, theological, philosophical and medical texts on suffering. In detailed readings of Alabaster, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Lanyer, Spenser, Milton and Montaigne, he shows that early modern culture located the meaning of pain in its capacity to elicit compassion in others - yet the nature of this compassion was also fiercely contested. Dr Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leiden.

English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Compassion in literature. --- Englisch. --- Folter. --- Literatur. --- Mitleid. --- Pain in literature. --- Schmerz. --- Early modern. --- History and criticism --- 1500-1700. --- Compassion (Buddhism) in literature --- History and criticism. --- Jacobean poetry. --- Religion. --- poetry.

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"Frames of War begins where Butler's Precarious Lives left off: on the idea that we cannot grieve for those lost lives that we never saw as lives to begin with. In this age of CNN-mediated war, the lives of those wretched populations of the earth -- the refugees; the victims of unjust imprisonment and torture; the immigrants virtually enslaved by their starvation and legal disenfranchisement -- are always presented to us as already irretrievable and thereby already lost. We may shake our heads at their wretchedness but then we sacrifice them nonetheless, for they are already forgone. By analyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butler calls for a reorientation of the Left toward the precarity of those lives. Only by recognizing those lives as precarious lives -- lives that are not yet lost but are ever fragile and in need of protection -- might the Left stand in unity against the violence perpetrated through arbitrary state power. -- Publisher description.

Violence politique. --- Violence --- Gauche (science politique) --- Political violence --- Mass media and public opinion --- Right and left (Political science) --- Aspect social --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Folter. --- Gewalt. --- Gewaltkriminalität. --- Gewaltmonopol. --- Kriegsverbrechen. --- Krig --- Mass media and public opinion. --- Médias et opinion publique --- Political violence. --- Politiskt våld. --- Right and left (Political science). --- terrorism. --- Etik och moral. --- Aspect politique. --- Aspect social. --- USA. --- United States.