Description
Book SynopsisBack by popular demand, the classic
JPS Holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age.
The Purim Anthology recounts the origins of the first Purim, then examines festival observances in different eras throughout the world, laws and rites, and finally provides plays and poems, stories and songs.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
A Note from the Publisher
Preface
Acknowledgments
BOOK ONE THE STORY OF PURIM
- THE ORIGIN OF PURIM
- SPECIAL PURIMS
- PURIM IN MANY LANDS
BOOK TWO PURIM IN LITERATURE, ART AND MUSIC
- PURIM IN THE BIBLE
- PURIM IN POST-BIBLICAL WRITINGS
- PURIM IN TALMUD AND MIDRASH
- PURIM IN JEWISH LAW
- PURIM IN MODERN PROSE
- PURIM IN THE SHORT STORY
- PURIM IN POETRY
- PURIM IN MUSIC
- THE ESTHER STORY IN ART
BOOK THREE PURIM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- STORIES FOR PURIM
- POEMS FOR PURIM
BOOK FOUR PURIM JOY
- PURIM PRANKS
- THE HISTORY OF PURIM PARODY IN JEWISH LITERATURE
- THE HISTORY OF PURIM PLAYS
- PURIM CURIOSITIES
- PURIM WIT AND HUMOR
- PURIM PARTIES AND PROGRAMS
- PURIM DANCES
- PURIM DELICACIES
BOOK FIVE COMMEMORATION OF PURIM
MUSIC SUPPLEMENT
- LITURGICAL MUSIC
- HEBREW SONGS
- YIDDISH SONGS
- ENGLISH SONGS
- PARODIES IN ENGLISH
Glossary of Purim Terms
Bibliography
Notes
