Word: ahasuerus
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...name of Haman elicits boos and rowdy noise-making during the Jewish holiday of Purim. But the festival, celebrated this year on March 17, prompts raves, as well, mostly for the food and the excuse to make merry. The wicked and corrupt advisor to Persia’s King Ahasuerus, as told in Jewish scriptures, Haman failed in his plan to eradicate the Jews. But everybody wins with Haman’s namesake, the hamantaschen, a delectable triangular-shaped cookie filled with fruit jam (usually prune) or poppy seed. The Yiddish name means the pocket of Haman; in Hebrew...
...regrowth of Judaism is not unprecedented. The Jews of Persia survived the violence under the regime of Ahasuerus, the Jews of Europe outlasted the Inquisition, and pogroms failed to wipe out the Jews of the Russian Empire. Yet cruel as generations of persecutions were, all stopped short of the Nazi attempt at genocide. There were 8.3 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before the rise of Hitler. Some 450,000 fled the Nazis before World War II. More than 5 million died in the Holocaust. After the war a few hundred thousand of the survivors left immediately for Israel...
...Death of Ahasuerus, by Par Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew, rendered as a study in faith and doubt, by a Nobel Prizewinning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without belief." The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman. The fateful first month of World War I as a drama in which every actor had rehearsed his part for years and yet turned into a shambles...
...Death of Ahasuerus, by Pär Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew as a symbol of salvation by unfaith-by a Nobel prize-winning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without a belief...
...Death of Ahasuerus, by Par Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew as a symbol of salvation by unfaith-by a Nobel Prize-winning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without a belief...