Esther " Etty " Hillesum ( 15 January 1914 in Middelburg, Netherlands – 30 November 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland ) was a young Jewish woman whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943, describe life in Amsterdam during the German occupation.

Etty's father was born in Amsterdam on 25 May 1880, as the youngest of four children, to the merchant Jacob Samuel Hillesum and his wife Esther Hillesum-Loeza ; Etty, therefore, was named after her paternal grandmother.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Heschel's sister Esther was killed in a German bombing.

* A Latin version of Esther was produced by Jerome for the Vulgate.

The genre of novellas under which Esther falls was common during both the Persian and Hellenistic periods to which scholars have dated the book of Esther.

Those arguing in favour of an historical reading of Esther, most commonly identify Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes II ( ruled 405 – 359 BCE ) although in the past it was often assumed that he was Xerxes I ( ruled 486 – 465 BCE ).

Alternative attempts have been made to identify her with Esther, although Esther is an orphan whose father was a Jew named Abihail.

Josephus too relates that this was the name by which he was known to the Greeks, and the Midrashic text, Esther Rabba also makes the identification.

Jewish tradition relates that Esther was the mother of a King Darius and so some try to identify Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes I and Esther with Kosmartydene.

Depending on the interpretation of Esther 2: 5 – 6, Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish was carried away from Jerusalem with Jeconiah by Nebuchadnezzar, in 597 BCE.

By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

The 1960 Hollywood film version of the story, Esther and the King, was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Joan Collins and Richard Egan.

In 2012, a graphic adaptation of the Book of Esther was illustrated by J. T. Waldman and appeared in volume one of The Graphic Canon, edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Cronenberg was the son of Esther ( born Sumberg ), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor.

Esther was originally named Hadassah, meaning myrtle.

" Esther 2: 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

" Esther was the daughter of a Benjamite, Abihail.

Esther (; ), born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther.

Blume was born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Esther ( née Rosenfeld ), a homemaker, and Ralph Sussman, a dentist.

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Bradbury was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, to Esther ( Moberg ) Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant, and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a power and telephone lineman of English descent.

Heckart was born Anna Eileen Herbert in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Esther Stark, who wed Leo Herbert at her own mother's insistence so her child would not be born with the stigma of illegitimacy.

Wallace was born in Brookville, Indiana, to David Wallace and Esther French Test Wallace.

Pauline Esther Friedman and her identical twin sister, Esther Pauline Friedman were born in Sioux City, Iowa to Russian Jewish immigrants.

That is where their daughter, Esther, was born in 1950.

Daughter Esther was born on January 31, 1916, and a son, Mordechai, on August 29, 1919.

* Katherine Jackson ( born Katherine Esther Scruse on May 4, 1930 ) the mother of music superstars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson was born in the same county as Eufaula.

Serling was born December 25, 1924, into a Jewish family in Syracuse, New York, the second of two sons born to Esther ( née Cooper ) and Samuel Lawrence Serling.

Thomas Jefferson Pryor, born in Greenville, Ala. sailed to Mary Esther in 1854 as a deckhand on a schooner headed for Pensacola.

John and Esther Bennion ’ s daughter, Rachael, was the first pioneer child to be born in Field ’ s Bottom.

Esther Ofarim ( ) ( born June 13, 1941 ) is an Israeli singer.

Esther Zaied was born in Safed to a Syrian Jewish family.

Holyoake was born at Mangamutu, a short distance from Pahiatua, a town in New Zealand's Wairarapa region, the son of Henry Victor Holyoake and Esther Eves.

Stamp, the eldest of five children, was born in Stepney, London in 1938, the son of Ethel Esther ( née Perrott ) and Thomas Stamp, who was a tugboat captain.

Esther Hart in 2011Esther Hart ( born Esther Katinka Hartkamp on 3 June 1970 in Epe, Gelderland ) is a Dutch singer.

The Peter family proved wonderful and helpful friends in the following days, Mrs. Peter, little Esther, and Raoul, who generously lent me his sleeping bag for my `` Watch on the Rhine ''.

Based on the view that the Ahasuerus of the Book of Tobit is identical with that of the Book of Esther, some have also identified him as Nebuchadnezzar's ally Cyaxares ( ruled 625 – 585 BCE ).

A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Esther.

A quote from the Book of Esther, which says: " On the contrary " ( hebrew: ונהפוך הוא ) is the reason that wearing a costume has become so popular among the Jews on this holiday.

* The Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose Esther as one of biblical figures on which she wrote poetry.

* In 1718, Handel wrote the oratorio Esther based on Racine's play.

* In the anime Trinity Blood Esther is the main character, a nun with a star on her side.

The experimental first-person adventure video game Dear Esther takes place on an unnamed Hebridean island.

ICANN was incorporated in California on September 30, 1998, with leading entrepreneurs and philanthropist Esther Dyson as founding chairwoman.

Elaborating on this theme are numerous early and late Jewish scholars, including the Ramban, Isaac Abrabanel, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Rabbeinu Bachya, the Vilna Gaon, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Ramchal, Aryeh Kaplan, and Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis.

Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia.

* Midrash Esther, on Esther ( A. D. 940 ).

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

* 24 March: Esther Kleinman, 23 years old, of N ' vei Tzuf was shot and killed on the Abud Bypass Road in the Shomron en route to work as a kindergarten teacher in the community of Ofra.

He was trained for college by his father and elder sisters, all of whom received an excellent education and one of whom, Esther, the eldest, wrote a semi-humorous tract on the immateriality of the soul, often mistakenly attributed to Jonathan.

: Requiem for a Divided Country, Richler had commented approvingly on Esther Delisle's history, The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 ( 1992 ), about Canada and particularly Quebec attitudes in the decade before the start of World War II.

Gersonides was also the author of commentaries on the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, I & II Samuel, I & II Kings, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Daniel, and Chronicles.

* Esther Deuzeville ( 1786 – 1851 ), as Esther Copley later a writer of children's books and works on domestic economy addressed to the working people, lived here with her parents until her marriage in 1809.

13 Adar ( II in leap years )-Fast of Esther – on 11 Adar when the 13th falls on Shabbat-( Fast Day )