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The Book of Esther recounts the story of the rescue of the Jews of Persia from the machinations of the evil vizier Haman, who sought to annihilate them. Thanks to the bravery and cleverness of the…
Contributor:
Joseph Zvi Geiger
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1893
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It happened in the days of Ahasuerus—that Ahasuerus who reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia. In those days, when King Ahasuerus occupied the royal…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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This photograph of two Jews reduces them to an abstraction, a single black shape, in a composition that includes the round shapes of manhole covers, the curving black lines of a street grating, and…
Contributor:
Pesi Girsch
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
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Six days left. Less than a week! That means, after next Saturday I would no longer see Sayyid. I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t change my clothes. I gritted my teeth, because I was afraid the shriek…
Contributor:
Sami Michael, Nurit Serfaty
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1979