The Politics of Purim: Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther

by Jo Carruthers

Book Overview

This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers explores carnival and synagogue practices, the purimshpil (Purim's own dramatic genre), illuminated Esther scrolls, as well as artworks by Botticelli, Millais and Jan Steen. The complex and astute interrogation of political life in such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567691861
• ISBN13: 9780567691866
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"