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A Purim spiel (Purim play) is a comic dramatization that attempts to convey the saga of the Purim story. [79] By the 18th century, in some parts of Eastern Europe, the Purim plays had evolved into broad-ranging satires with music and dance for which the story of Esther was little more than a pretext.
Al HaNissim alternatively V'al HaNissim [1] ([ו]עַל הַנִסִּים , "[and] on the miracles") is an addition to the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon on Hanukkah and Purim. On both holidays, it starts off with a short paragraph, beginning with the words for which it is named.
A hamantash (pl.: hamantashen; also spelled hamantasch, hamantaschen; Yiddish: המן־טאַש homentash, pl.: המן־טאַשן homentashn, 'Haman pockets') is an Ashkenazi Jewish triangular filled-pocket pastry associated with the Jewish holiday of Purim. The name refers to Haman, the villain in the Purim story.
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The date of a Second Purim marked the anniversary of the day the community or individual was rescued from destruction, catastrophe, or an antisemitic ruler or threat. [1] [5] Some Second Purims coincided with Jewish holidays, such as the Purim of Ancona, Italy, which fell on the second day of Sukkot, and the Purim of Carpentras, France, marking the community's rescue from a blood libel on the ...
The Adloyada tradition was renewed in the Purim of 1955. In this year there were over half a million of participants and spectators. [9] In the late sixties, the tradition faded in Tel Aviv and the parade was transferred to Holon, although it lacked the unrefined feature of events in Tel Aviv.
An example of such is the fourteenth century Masekhet Purim by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, condemned by many scholars. [3] Purim Torah authors, often displaying an amazing grasp of Jewish knowledge, playfully use some of the far-fetched methods of Talmudic logic and Biblical exegesis in order to reach absurd conclusions. [4]