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, 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.

Esther does not reveal that she is Jewish.

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

Esther sent clean clothes to him, but he refused them, explaining that deliverance for the Jews would come from some other place, but that Esther would be killed if she did not do what she could to stop this genocide — by talking to the king.

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

He then asked Esther what she wished of from him, promising to grant even up to half his kingdom should she ask.

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

* In the 2008 HBO television movie Recount, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ( portrayed by Laura Dern ) compares herself to Queen Esther, of whom she says " was willing to sacrifice herself to save the lovely Jewish people.

" Christabel did not share her mother's fervour for political work, however, until she befriended the suffrage activists Esther Roper and Eva Gore-Booth.

But all around her, people keep talking freely about sex in general and also about their own sex lives, whereas Esther does not even want to imagine her father sleeping with Henia Borenstein, and is slightly embarrassed when she sees them holding hands under the table.

But Esther is also critical of the other Jews she meets in America.

Esther finally gets to meet John properly when he is a guest at the Smiths ' house party, although her chances of romancing him don't go to plan when, after all the guests are gone and he is helping her turn off the gas lamps throughout the house, he tells her she uses the same perfume as his grandmother and that she has " a mighty strong grip for a girl ".

At the ball, Esther fills up a visiting girl's ( Lucille Ballard, played by June Lockhart ) dance card with losers because she thinks Lucille is a rival of Rose's.

Later on, John proposes to Esther and she accepts.

Marion was in love earlier with Mary Esther Simons but she refused his proposal and married Jack Holmes.

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.

Ingres ' pupil Théodore Chassériau ( 1819 – 1856 ) had already achieved success with his nude The Toilette of Esther ( 1841, Louvre ) and equestrian portrait of Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort ( 1846 ) before he first visited the East, but in later decades the steamship made travel much easier and increasing numbers of artists traveled to the Middle East and beyond, painting a wide range of Oriental scenes.

* In the book The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the character Esther Greenwood meets a girl named Valerie in the asylum who has had a lobotomy.

: 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.

Fromental had left two daughters ; the elder, Esther, died in 1864, an event which so traumatised Mme.

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 ).

As opposed to Esther, Sonia has had affairs throughout her married life.

His parents Gabriel and Esther had six children: Esther, Isaac, Gabriel, Benjamin, Job and Francis.

Johan moved to Lampeter Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, married the former Frena Howery, and they had three children there-Christian in 1750, Henry in 1754, and Esther in 1757.

As a young man Schmidt was from time to time employed by a Jewish shopkeeper, whose daughter, Esther, was the only person who had treated Schmidt kindly up to that point.

In killing Esther he had given vent to the rage at the world that had been building up in him throughout his young life.

Economic growth was also generated by some of Dothan's Jewish citizens, most notably Hyman Blumberg and his wife Esther, who had settled in Dothan in 1892.

Boatman and his wife Esther had a rather large family.

By 1969, Robinson had voiced his opinion on wanting to retire from the road to focus on raising a family with wife Claudette and their two children, and also focus his duties as Motown's vice president, a job he earned by the mid-1960s after Esther Gordy Edwards had left the position and began mentoring Motown acts on the label's Motortown Revues.

His first venture into English oratorio had been Esther which was written and performed for a private patron in about 1718.