Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

But then everything changed when Haman, the king’s adviser ... You might not instinctively pair Queen Esther with Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master who invented realism in the 17th century.

Jan Lievens’s “the Feast of Esther” takes as its subject the high-stakes dinner where the queen confronts Haman over his plan to annihilate a people he calls “scattered abroad and dispersed among the ...

Haman’s pride and preening were his undoing ... and drive them toward collective renewal and growth. From Queen Esther to the power ballads of the 80s, one truth rings clear: the journey ...

An exhibition dedicated to Purim, one of the most joyful holidays of the Jewish calendar and especially to its Queen Esther. At the Meis in Ferrara until June 15, 2025 ...

Circa 500 BC, Jewish heroine Esther appears before her husband Xerxes I, King of Persia to accuse Haman of plotting against the Jewish race. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

Esther succeeds in enchanting the king with her extraordinary beauty and charm, and he makes her his queen. The king promotes his loyal subject Haman - whose family is notably anti-Jewish - to the ...

Jewish lives are saved, and Mordecai takes over Haman's place as the king's second-in-command. In the Book of Esther, a drunk King Ahasuerus has his wife, Queen Vashti, killed for disobeying him ...