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March 1, 2018
A Yiddish-Italian Purim “Shpil” in Verse
What rhymes with Ahasuerus?
On the holiday of Purim, which falls today, there is a longstanding tradition of performing a shpil, or humorous play, based on the story of the book of Esther—in which the heroic title character and her cousin Mordecai thwart the wicked Haman’s scheme to slaughter all the Jews of Persia. Curt Leviant has translated into English a mid-to-late-19th-century Purim shpil from northern Italy, itself an Italian translation of an earlier version in Yiddish. The entire play is in verse, a fact that the author emphasizes repeatedly. Thus, the king of Persia:
March 1, 2018
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A Yiddish-Italian Purim “Shpil” in Verse
What rhymes with Ahasuerus?