The politics of Purim: law, sovereignty and hospitality in the aesthetic afterlives of Esther
"This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers explores carnival and synagogue practices, the purimshpiln (Purim's own dramatic genre) , i...
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