Tag Archives: Esther

El misterio del rollo de Esther español

An Esther Scroll, handwritten in Spanish, Amsterdam, 1684, the National Library of Israel collections, photo by Shir Bram

  Una meguilá del siglo XVII destaca por estar escrita en el idioma de los descendientes de los supervivientes de la inquisición. Una lista parcial de figuras clave en la historia de Purim, la festividad que comenzará el sábado por la noche (domingo por la noche en Jerusalén), incluye los …

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Queen Esther: Patron saint of crypto-Jews

Faced with threat of execution for Jewish observance, Sephardi conversos created the festival of Santa Esterica to replace Purim According to tradition, around 1,900 years before the Spanish Inquisition, a baby girl named Hadassah was born in the Persian Empire. She was orphaned at a very young age and her …

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