Purim Story

Moshe Mizrachi

1902

Illustration in three horizontal and one vertical panel, depicting figures on horseback, a king, a row of soldiers in chains, and a man hanging.

Illustrated folk depiction of the story of Purim by Moshe Mizrachi (Jerusalem: Monsohn, 1902). The top panels depict the villain of the story, Haman, leading the hero Mordechai on a horse and the heroine Queen Esther before her husband King Ahasuerus. The bottom panels depict Haman being hanged and his sons in chains.

Credits

Collection of William Gross.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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Creator Bio

Moshe Mizrachi

ca. 1870–1940

Born in Tehran, Moshe ben Yitsḥak Mizrachi immigrated to Jerusalem around 1890. Working in multiple media, including lithography, drawing, and verre églomisé, Mizrachi set up a workshop producing ritual and utilitarian art. His most notable pieces are shiviti plaques (decorative plaques bearing the verse “I am ever mindful of the Lord’s presence,” from Psalm 16:8) and mizraḥim, plaques used, often in synagogues, to mark the direction toward Jerusalem.

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