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Author : Samara Q. Klein
Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis Purim Masquerade by : Samara Q. Klein
Download or read book Purim Masquerade written by Samara Q. Klein. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edie Stoltz Zolkower
Release : 2009
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis When It's Purim by : Edie Stoltz Zolkower
Download or read book When It's Purim written by Edie Stoltz Zolkower. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray a group of forest animal friends making hamentaschen cookies to give as gifts on Purim.
Author : Jo Carruthers
Release : 2020-02-06
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Purim by : Jo Carruthers
Download or read book The Politics of Purim written by Jo Carruthers. This book was released on 2020-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers explores carnival and synagogue practices, the purimshpiln (Purim's own dramatic genre), illuminated Esther scrolls, as well as artworks by Botticelli, Millais and Jan Steen. The complex and astute interrogation of political life in such festival and artworks is analysed through theories of sovereignty, law, precarity and hospitality by key political thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière. Carruthers considers different motifs of boundary conservation and dissolution, as a means of contemplating the political implications of Purim and the Esther story for diaspora politics. How is sovereignty aspired to and attained by marginalized and threatened communities? How can one respond to the ethical call of hospitality to relax sovereign boundaries whilst protecting and celebrating that which is exceptional? The practice of giving gifts, mishloach manos, offers a model of hospitality that together with Purim's profane impulse is epitomized in the final chapter's discussion of a 2018 Brooklyn purimshpil, that offers a riotous ridiculing of white supremacist rhetoric, norms of domination, capitalist inequalities, modern slavery and ablest identities and assumptions.
Author : Hayyim Schauss
Release : 1996-09-09
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Jewish Festivals by : Hayyim Schauss
Download or read book The Jewish Festivals written by Hayyim Schauss. This book was released on 1996-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the Jewish New Year designated on the Jewish calendar as the first day of the seventh month, and not of the first month? Why do women cover their eyes when reciting the blessing over the Sabbath candles? How did the Seder originate? Does the Book of Esther, read on Purim, mirror any real historical events? Long considered a classic, The Jewish Festivals provides a rich and charming account of the origins, development, and symbolism of the Jewish holidays, and of the diverse rituals, prayers, ceremonial objects, and special foods that have been used throughout history and around the world to celebrate them. Drawing upon a wealth of knowledge of Jewish folkways and customs, Hayyim Schauss shows how these holidays evolved in meaning and importance, depending on the contemporary needs of those who observed them. Written with passion and warmth, this book will infuse your own experience of the holidays with extra meaning and delight.
Author : Camille Kress
Release : 1998
Genre : Judaism
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Book Synopsis Purim! by : Camille Kress
Download or read book Purim! written by Camille Kress. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents basic concepts of the Purim story for young children.
