Word: purim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding the Nazi Press. Roared Julius Streicher's Frankische Tageszeitung: "The assassination of Gustloff is another in the long series of Jewish ritual murders which began with the slaughter of the Aryans by Jews thousands of years ago and is now celebrated annually in the feast of Purim...
...cousin Mordecai, who had saved the king's life. This was annoying to Haman the Prime Minister, a haughty anti-Semite. Haman had a gallows built 50 cubits high on which to hang Mordecai. He also got Ahasuerus to agree to exterminate "a certain people," casting lots (Purim) to decide when it should be done. But Esther heard of the plot and on the 14th day of the Month Adar, 473 B.C. persuaded Ahasuerus to save the Jews. "So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai." (Esther...
Jews have celebrated the Feast of Purim ever since as a day of deliverance. Last week brought the 14th day of Adar (March 1) in the Jewish year 5694. Many a Jew all over the world made merry. Even in Germany they were allowed to attend special Purim plays, advertise the feast in street cars. In Manhattan Mayor LaGuardia was given a basket of Purim figs, dates and wines sent by German refugees in Palestine. A message from President Roosevelt to the Jews was read by Congressman Sol Bloom on a nationwide broadcast...
...Purim, masquerading used to be a universal practice, with shpieler (players) going from house to house, to rigadoon and sing: "Hcint is Purim, morgen is ois, git uns a groshen, und varft uns arois." (''Today is Purim, tomorrow it's over, give us a penny and send us off.") The custom of Mishloach Monos (gifts to friends and to the poor) introduced a messenger called the Shalach Monos Tregger who carries the gifts from house to house. Today many a Jewish family celebrates Purim by giving a jolly party, eating Haman Taschen (poppyseed cakes) and reading...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, on the Jewish Purim Festival (March 11), Jewess Katherine Spector, 19. Bayonne, N. J. piano teacher, was crowned "Prettiest U. S. Jewess" and 1933 "Queen Esther" of the Jewish National Workers' Alliance after a national contest. The festival's profits will go toward, teaching young Jews Judaism, sending Queen Spector to Palestine & back...