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If One Day during Purim, Everybody by Chance Will Disguise Themselves as Orthodox Jews, Will the Messiah Come?
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This photograph of two Jews reduces them to an abstraction, a single black shape, in a composition that includes the round shapes of manhole covers, the curving black lines of a street grating, and…

Contributor:

Pesi Girsch

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1997

Subjects:

Photography, Orthodox Judaism, Messianism, Purim, Humor

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Aerial photograph of two people in hats and suits walking.
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

Categories:

Literature, 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.