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.

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

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.

* prayers for God's intervention offered by Mordecai and by Esther

In 1992 a 30-minute, fully animated video, twelfth in Hanna-Barbera's The Greatest Adventure series, titled Queen Esther features the voices of Helen Slater as Queen Esther, Dean Jones as King Ahasuerus, Werner Klemperer as Haman, and Ron Rifkin as Mordecai.

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.

Mordecai let Esther know, and she warned the king about it, and Mordecai was given credit.

* A 1999 TV movie from the Bible Collection that follows the biblical account very closely, Esther, starred Louise Lombard in the title role and F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai.

Clothing figures prominently in the Bible where it appears in numerous contexts, the more prominent ones being: the story of Adam and Eve, Joseph's cloak, Judah and Tamar, Mordecai and Esther.

# Abihail was the father of Queen Esther and uncle of Mordecai.

Learning of Haman's scheme, Mordecai communicated with Queen Esther regarding it, and by her bold intervention the scheme was frustrated by distributing arms to the Jews of Susa and other Persian cities where they lived and clashed with Haman's militia, until the King rescinded the edict to murder the Empire's Jews.

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.

If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther ( assuming the biblical Ahasuerus is indeed Xerxes I ).

The Talmud lists Mordecai and Esther as prophets.

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Mordecai in Esther and in Rabbinical literature

There are allegations of antisemitism made by Mordecai Richler and Esther Delisle against several pre-WW2 Quebec intellectuals, including Groulx.

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.

Esther, mistaking my hesitation, assured me that the hospital expense would be taken care of by a leading merchant in Strasbourg whom she had already approached.

The name Ahasuerus is equivalent to Xerxes, both deriving from the Persian Khshayārsha, thus Ahasuerus is usually identified as Xerxes I ( 486-465 BCE ), though Ahasuerus is identified as Artaxerxes in the later Greek version of Esther ( as well as by Josephus, the Jewish commentary Esther Rabbah, the Ethiopic translation and the Christian theologian Bar-Hebraeus who identified him more precisely as Artaxerxes II ).

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

* The primary source relating to the origin of Purim is the Megillat Esther ( Book of Esther ), which became the last of the 24 books of the Tanakh to be canonized by the Sages of the Great Assembly.

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

As noted by biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan, the book of Esther contains specific details regarding certain subject matter ( for example, Persian rule ) which are historically inaccurate.

The Feast of Esther ( Feest van Esther ) by Jan Lievens, 1625, North Carolina Museum of Art.

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.

Bar-Hebraeus identified Ahasuerus explicitly as Artaxerxes II ; however, the names are not necessarily equivalent: Hebrew has a form of the name Artaxerxes distinct from Ahasuerus, and a direct Greek rendering of Ahasuerus is used by both Josephus and the Septuagint for occurrences of the name outside the Book of Esther.

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

There are several paintings depicting Esther, including one by Millais.

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.

A musical stage adaptation of the Book of Esther, written by Bruce Greer and Keith Ferguson, is currently in development with Dallas Summer Musicals.

* Extract from The JPS Bible Commentary: Esther by Adele Berlin: Liberal Jewish view.

Queen Esther ( 1878 ) as imagined by Edwin Long.

* In 1689, Jean Baptiste Racine wrote Esther, a tragedy, at the request of Louis XIV's wife, Françoise d ' Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon.

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.

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Later in the Spring of 1963 Burke toured on Henry Wynn's Supersonic Attractions Tour with Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, Dee Clark, The Crystals, The Drifters, Little Esther Phillips, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Thunder, " Little Julius " High ( later known as " Lotsa Poppa "), with The Upsetters Band and Theophilous Odell George ( known as " Gorgeous George "), who was emcee, to mostly mixed white and black audiences, including a concert at Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, two concerts on April 28, 1963 at the Montreal Forum in Shawinigan, Quebec,

* Esther Delisle-The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 ( Antisémitisme et nationalisme d ' extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939 )

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) His other novel, published under the nom de plume of Frances Snow Compton, was Esther, whose eponymous heroine was believed to be modeled after his wife.

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Artists who were introduced to the public in the lyric theatre include Caridad Suarez, María de los Angeles Santana, Esther Borja and Ignacio Villa, who had such a round, black face that Rita Montaner called him Bola de Nieve (' Snowball ').

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In the same year, Mme de Sévigné attended the Saint-Cyr performance of Racine's Esther, and some of her most amusing descriptions of court ceremonies and experiences date from this time.

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* Esther Lachmann, later Pauline Thérèse Lachmann, later Mme Villoing ,, later Mme la Marquise de Païva, later Countess Henckel von Donnersmarck, courtesan

* Singleton, Esther Famous Women as Described by Famous Writers Mme Bolly on Anne de Pisseleu.

Charles II granted him the honour of knighthood, and on the same day Chardin married Esther de Lardinière Peigné, a Huguenot refugee from Rouen.

* Esther Horta Pérez de Nicola

Presenter Esther Rantzen later described the incident as like " Cruella de Vil meets Bambi ".

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