A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some artists today. By Deborah Solomon As far as biblical heroines go ...

A new exhibition opening this week at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara, Italy, delves into the Jewish festival of Purim and its iconic heroine, Queen Esther.

the costume changes stand out as a motif of the narrative. Ahasuerus appoints Esther as queen by setting the royal crown atop her head (Esther 2:17). When Mordecai learns of the plot to annihilate ...

Esther, according to the biblical story, is a young Jewish woman who becomes the queen of Persia, risks her life and saves her people, popular even as a Purim costume. Both of us have worn her ...

Book to be released in November tells story of Esther Nacht, Viennese Jew born in 1905 whose life 'is fated to intersect with Israel’s history'; story closes in Jerusalem, 1981 ...

Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Irving’s “Queen Esther” will be published Nov. 4. His novel will bring back Dr. Wilbur Larch from “The Cider House Rules,” but otherwise features ...

ORANGEBURG -- Funeral services for Queen Esther Myers Hamilton, 71, 167 Pamela Lane, Orangeburg, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, at Gethsemane Baptist Church, 488 Lawton Road ...

a Black Lucinda Williams…” and a “...brutal, original, explosive singer…” (Vanity Fair, Spain), Queen Esther’s creative output musically is the culmination of several critical Southern elements, not ...

Esther Brownsmith does not work for ... Once upon a time, in the ancient Near East, there was a beautiful queen. Scribes wrote of her lovely form, her regal majesty and her fierce bravery.