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The Centaur in the Garden
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Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable…

Contributor:

Moacyr Scliar

Places:

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Date:

1980

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Adolescence, Rite of passage, Israel/Israelis, Diaspora, Fiction, Folklore

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Fiction, Folklore
Esther
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It happened in the days of Ahasuerus—that Ahasuerus who reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia. In those days, when King Ahasuerus occupied the royal…

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Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Purim, Diaspora, Women, Jewish identity, Humor, Folklore

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Folklore
Relief with figures with hands bound standing next to larger figure along wall with relief of winged figure and Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian inscriptions.