The most well-known Jewish holiday is probably either Passover or Hanukkah. Passover is prescribed in the Bible, while ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a broadly popular symbol of courage and resistance.

King Ahasuerus gets rid of his wife because she didn't follow orders. His new wife, Esther, is Jewish, but King Ahasuerus ...

“Esther and Ahasuerus,” by Geldorp Gortzius, captures Esther’s sex appeal as she grasps the king’s golden scepter that signals the bestowing of his favor. ‘Esther Scroll,’ by Salom Italia, Amsterdam, ...

The Book’s eponymous heroine, Esther, became the Queen of Persia, or ancient Iran, in the fifth century BCE, strategically hiding her Jewish identity from her husband, King Ahasuerus.

Esther, whose name shares a root with the Hebrew ... At the feast, Haman cowers or pleads as the turbaned King Ahasuerus rises in anger, in one image sending a meal of peacock clattering onto ...

maiden Esther was actually in love with a socialist tailor’s apprentice with whom she had been planning to elope to Vienna — ...