Esther
And the long history of a local tradition.
The teenager completed the illustrated manuscript in March 1767.
Filmmakers shared with rabbis an urge to embellish.
And its profound theological relevance.
The star of this week’s Purim story gets her point across because of the way she tells certain truths.
From 15th-century Iberia.
Jewish vulnerability and Jewish heroism.
A new exegesis and its flaws.
Hath not a Jew costumes?
A tale of two Mordecais and a failed attempt to create a Jewish statelet in western New York.
Cotton Mather’s Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion.
Ironic inversions unite two narratives of redemption.
Esther’s central question is whether the Jewish people will continue in exile.
Built for launching a campaign against Egypt.
