Tag: Esther
Throughout her career, novelist Charlotte Brontë drew on ‘Book of Esther’
The 19th-century English novelist Charlotte Brontë is best known for her 1847 novel Jane Eyre, which is a staple of many U.S. middle and high school curricula. A new journal article addresses a different side...
‘We need the joy’: Jews around the world gear up for Purim despite the...
More than 2,000 years ago, when the Jews of Persia triumphed over an existential threat, they celebrated by proclaiming a holiday: They gave charity, the Scroll of Esther recounts, sent each other presents of...
How Jews made the holiday of Purim personal
“Cursed is Hitler, cursed is Mussolini … Blessed is Roosevelt, blessed is Churchill.”
With these words, the Moroccan scribe Prosper Hassine concluded his account of World War II and the Holocaust. The story was familiar,...
Scroll of Esther written by 14-year-old Italian girl to be auctioned off in Jerusalem
A Megillat Esther (“Scroll of Esther”) written by a 14-year-old Jewish girl from Rome was revealed this week in Jerusalem.
The discovery, especially significant as Scrolls of Esther inscribed during that time period by women are few...
Who’s their favorite Purim person and why?
You may not find it surprising that Mordechai and Esther are the most popular in our (wildly unscientific) JNS “Favorite Purim Person” poll.
After all, Esther was a young orphan girl living in Shushan, the...