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My jewish sephardic family was compelled by country's authorities to finance the expedition only to have been expelled (with the whole community) right when he
by golergka 2y ago
My jewish sephardic family was compelled by country's authorities to finance the expedition only to have been expelled (with the whole community) right when he embarked, and of course never saw any of the money back. I really doubt that he had any relation to the community at all. He was just an instrument of robbing it.
- aguaviva 2y agoThat's quite a connection. Then again, the ultimate result of that effort was that the Jewish diaspora (as a whole), a fair chunk of it anyway, ended up securing places to settle in North America, infinitely safer than Europe would prove to be centuries hence. So there's that. BTW I finally followed up in regard to that guy with the beard, if it's still of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41794563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41794563
- golergka 2y agoA couple of years ago I made a bot to notify me about HN comment replies, but it's kind of abandoned now. I probably should get it up and running again, checking this manually is such a hassle https://github.com/golergka/hn-comment-bot https://github.com/golergka/hn-comment-bot