Esther
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Esther, originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.
Esther by John Everett Millais
Queen Esther by Edwin Long (1878)
Esther Denouncing Haman (1888) by Ernest Normand
Early 3rd century CE Roman painting of Esther and Mordechai, Dura-Europos synagogue, Syria.
Purim
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Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people by Queen Esther from annihilation at the hands of an official of the Achaemenid Empire named Haman, as it is recounted in th
Esther
…hailed for her courage and for working to save the Jews of Persia from eradication. The Book of Esther's story provides the traditional explanation for Purim, a celebratory Jewish holiday that is observed on the Hebrew date on which Haman's order was to go into effect, which is the day that the Jews killed…
Purim by Arthur Szyk
The Triumph of Mordechai, 1624 painting by Pieter Pietersz Lastman (Rembrandt House Museum)
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People dressed up for Purim. Gan Shmuel Kibbutz, 1952