The mood was buoyant at the debut of New York's newest and most unusual fair, even if sales were slow in coming. A video by Oliver Herring is displayed on a grand piano at the Esther art fair in New ...

Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of a ...

Vintage colour lithograph from 1882 of Esther standing in the Inner Court of the King’s House duncan1890/Getty Images It didn’t happen all at once. It took work to shed the names, accents and customs ...

Esther secured her place in history, joining a long, celebrated line of women who give of themselves selflessly for the good of the nation. It would seem to be the most improbable of scenarios: A ...