He is the son of Harry and Esther Steinberg.

Two Irish Jews, Esther Steinberg and her infant son, are known to have been killed during the Holocaust, which otherwise did not substantially directly affect the Jews actually living in Ireland.

It tells the story of a Jewish girl named Esther who became queen of Persia and thwarted a plan to commit genocide against her people.

Mordechai informs Esther what has happened and tells her to intercede with the King.

Overcome by rage, Ahasuerus leaves the room ; meanwhile Haman stays behind and begs Esther for his life, falling upon her in desperation.

In her article “ The Book of Esther and Ancient Storytelling ,” biblical scholar Adele Berlin discusses the reasoning behind scholarly concern of the historicity of Esther.

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

For his wife and queen, King Xerxes chose Esther, an orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai, to replace the recalcitrant Queen Vashti.

" 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 not permitted to see the king unless he had asked for her, otherwise she could be put to death.

Esther was terrified of this ( she had not been called to the king in 30 days ), so she and her maid-servants and her people the Jews of Persia fasted earnestly for three days before she built up the courage to enter the king's presence.

When King Xerxes saw Esther, he was pleased and held out his scepter to her, showing that he accepted her visit.

That night, during the banquet, Esther told the king of Haman's plan to massacre all Jews in the Persian Empire, and acknowledged her own Jewish ethnicity.

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

He co-starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose's Aquacade during the NEW YORK World's Fair, 1939 – 41, pursuing her throughout a span of two years.

She incorporates religious references in her speech, particularly the story of Esther.

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.

Félix made ​​ her first appearance in the film world in Black and White Ball at the Country Club, where the female stars of Mexico at the time: Esther Fernandez, Lupe Velez and Andrea Palma were gathered.

* The eponymous heroine puts her newborn " out to nurse " with a baby farmer in George Moore's Esther Waters ( 1894 ).

Influential writer Esther Dyson ( pictured here in 2008 ) popularized the term " vaporware " in her November 1983 issue of RELease 1. 0

The word was told by Winblad to influential computer expert Esther Dyson, and Dyson published it for the first time in her monthly printed newsletter RELease 1. 0.

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

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

Mann was born in Chicago of Jewish heritage, the son of grocers Esther and Jack Mann .< ref >

These additional books are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah ( which later became chapter 6 of Baruch in the Vulgate ), additions to Daniel ( The Prayer of Azarias, the Song of the Three Children, Susanna and Bel and the Dragon ), additions to Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, 1 Esdras, Odes, including the Prayer of Manasseh, the Psalms of Solomon, and Psalm 151.

The Pentecostal minister Finis Dake interprets the Bible verses Esther 2: 5 – 6 (" Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah ") to mean that Mordecai himself was exiled by Nebuchadnezzar.

Mr. Alonzo Smith ( Leon Ames ) and Mrs. Anna Smith ( Mary Astor ) have four daughters: Rose ( Lucille Bremer ), Esther, Agnes, and Tootie ; and a son, Lon Jr. ( Henry H. Daniels, Jr .) Esther, the second eldest daughter ( Judy Garland ), is in love with the boy next door, John Truett ( Tom Drake ), although he does not notice her at first.

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

Poy is the daughter of Richard Charles Lee ( 利銘澤 ; Cantonese: Lee Ming Chak ), who is the son of famous businessman Hysan Lee in Hong Kong, and Esther Yewpick Lee ( 黃瑤璧 ; Cantonese: Lee Yiu Pik ) and the sister-in-law of Adrienne Clarkson, who was Governor General of Canada from 1999 to 2005.

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.

He was the son of Esther Bolling ( Flood ) and Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.

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.

* In George Moore's novel Esther Waters, the eponymous heroine works as a wet nurse after the birth of her son while leaving him in the hands of a baby farmer.

Berry Gordy I was the son of James Thomas Gordy, a white plantation owner in Georgia, and his female slave Esther Johnson.

A native of London, he was the son of Charles Burney, the music historian, and his first wife Esther Sleepe.

Waxman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Esther ( Silverman ) and Ralph Louis Waxman.

Canton was born in Middle Street Stroud, Gloucestershire, the son of a weaver John Canton ( b. 1687 ) and Esther ( née Davis ).

Lederberg was born in Montclair, New Jersey, to a Jewish family, son of Esther Goldenbaum Schulman Lederberg and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Lederberg, in 1925, and moved to Washington Heights, Manhattan as an infant.

The Baronetcy, of Maristow in the County of Devon, had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1805 for Manasseh Masseh Lopes, with remainder to his nephew Ralph Franco, son of his sister Esther.

Shaw was born in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the fourth child and second son of James Shaw, a dyehouse labourer who worked at a local mill, and his second wife Esther Hannah Morrell.

His siblings were Sarah, Dvora Miriam, Esther Sima, Gittel, and Jacob.

* Several Aramaic targums of Esther were produced in the Middle Ages of which two survive-the Targum Rishon (" First Targum ") and Targum Sheni (" Second Targum ") dated c. 500-1000 CE.

These were not targums (" translations ") in the true sense but like the Greek Esther are retellings of events and include additional legends relating to Purim.

However, some people ( such as fellow researcher and colleague Esther Lederberg ) thought that Crick's views were overly optimistic

The Hebrews / Israelites were already referred to as " Jews " in later books of the Tanakh such as the Book of Esther, with the term Jews replacing the title " Children of Israel ".

Current old institutions like the Oil Workers Union and the National Education Workers Union ( Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion ) are sordid demonstrations of how the use of government benefits are not being applied to improve the quality in the investigation of the use of oil or the basic education in Mexico as long as their leaders show publicly that they are living wealthly and in the case of the Teachers Union represented by Elba Esther Gordillo, they are not allowing government to input a way to evaluate and improve the knowledge of the Mexican teachers allowing to incompetent elements to use those places to escalate in the Union or to avoid the responsibility for they were hired.

The two female members of Israel's Olympic team, sprinter and hurdler Esther Shahamorov and swimmer Shlomit Nir, were housed in a separate part of the Olympic Village.

According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah ( mother of the prophet Samuel ), Abigail ( a wife of King David ), Huldah ( from the time of Jeremiah ), and Esther.

However, Rabbinical writings seem to indicate that certain books were disputed as accepted canon ( such as Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs and Esther, see also Antilegomena ), but it may not necessarily be the case.

Other scholars suggest that at the time Josephus wrote, such books as Esther and Ecclesiastes were not yet considered canonical.

The Grand Opening performers ( October 11 and 12, 2008 ) were Roberta Flack and Queen Esther Marrow.

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

His grandparents were Benjamin and Judith Baluet Marion of French Huguenot origin, and Anthony and Esther Baluet Cordes.

Celebrities such as Buster Crabbe and Esther Williams were normal fare at the events in the 1940s and 1950s.

The first graduation class from the high school were: Esther Stenzel, Cora Knutson, Paul Goheen, and Glenn Sansburn.

They were John, Amariah and Hannah ( wife of George L. Byon ) Hammond ; Esther Wright ( second wife of Ira Bulkley ); Elizabeth Cook ( wife of Orsemus Rathbone ); Willis and Nancy ( wife of Brockhurst L. Baker ) Hammond ; George L. and Harris T. Ryon ; Benson, Elizabeth and Charles Tubbs ; Maria Coates ( wife of Lorenzo Cook ); Edward, Charlotte and Hester Buck ; Phebe Mascho, who died young, and her brother Charles ; and a girl named Rifle, who lived in the family of John Ryon, Sr. Miss Wright ’ s pay for teaching was " calculated at one dollar per week, or one bushel of good merchantable wheat.

He met Esther Dora " Kitty " Buhler and married her on September 12, 1966 ; they were married until his death.

Many of Gordy's family members, including his father Berry, Sr., brothers Robert and George, and sister Esther, were eventually given key roles in the company.

According to the Book of Esther, in the Hebrew Bible, Haman, royal vizier to King Ahasuerus ( presumed to be Xerxes I of Persia ), planned to kill all the Jews in the empire, but his plans were foiled by Mordecai and his adopted daughter Queen Esther.

Some, however, used to fast three days in commemoration of the fasting of Esther ; but as fasting was prohibited during the month of Nisan, the first and second Mondays and the Thursday following Purim were chosen.