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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…

Places:

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.
The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and…

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Claudia Roden

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Hampstead, United Kingdom

Date:

1996

Subjects:

Mizrahi, Food and drink, Jewish identity, Diaspora

Categories:

Food & drink, Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Photograph in two parts: on the left, two women in head coverings are preparing food at a stove; on the right, two people are around a table while a woman brushes a young girl's hair.