The Purim Libel Returns, This Time from the Pens of Jews
Fetishizing powerlessness.
March 14, 2025
Rare Purim Photos from the Land of Israel in the 1920s
A sailor, a citrus tree, and other costumes.
As befits the book of Esther’s own movement from disaster to complacency to danger to salvation, let’s conclude with the return to the Land of Israel. The Jewish National Fund—the organization founded in 1901 to purchase land in Palestine for Jews—has recently published three rare photographs of Purim celebrations from the 1920s.
March 14, 2025
When the Portuguese Haman Threatened the Jews of Brazil
A Purim-themed poem from the first rabbi of the New World.
The Exquisite Artwork, Jewish and Gentile, Inspired by the Book of Esther
Esther in the Age of Rembrandt.
The Poetic Art of the Purim Shpil
“Our heads are full to the brim with our thinking/ Just as the King runneth over with drinking.”
Rare Purim Photos from the Land of Israel in the 1920s
A sailor, a citrus tree, and other costumes.