I am reading Saul Friedländer’s Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume I, The Years of Persecution (also see this post), and in his discussion of the infamous anti-Semetic newspaper Der Stürmer, I happen to come across this timely mention of Purim (emphasis added).
In its August 1935 issue (no. 35), Streicher’s paper took up a [...]
From Machon Schechter (here in Hebrew):
Faculty Forum
Volume 6, Number 7
March 2008
Queen Vashti’s Costume Party
By Dr. Tamar Kadari
The article is part of the entry “Vashti”, written by the author for the Encyclopedia, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, Eds. Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer, Shalvi Publishing Ltd. Jerusalem 2006 (CD-Rom).
Vashti’s role in Megilat Esther is [...]
See another example of Eliezer Brodt’s comprehensive treatment of a topic, this one on “Purim and Parodies”, at Seforim.
There is a fairly universal custom that a number of verses from Megillat Esther are read aloud by the congregation. These verses are usually “There was a certain Jew…” (2:5), “And Mordechai left the presence of the king…” (8:15), “For the Jews there was light and joy…” (8:17), and “For Mordechai the Jew…” (10:3). [...]
See R. Eliezer Brodt’s great post at Seforim on hamentashen.
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