with a shadowy painting of Mordecai overhearing the plot of Ahaseurus’ guards and scenes of his triumph on horseback. One of the few paintings of Esther with Mordecai, by Aert de Geulder ...

Rembrandt’s “Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible,” the central painting, was completed when the artist was 27. While the identification with Esther is not entirely ironclad — the Jews have no ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

Though timed to coincide with Purim, the Jewish holiday that celebrates Esther and begins at sundown on Thursday, the show is likely to appeal to anyone who cares about painting. Rembrandt is ...

Visitors of the exhibit will be treated to the sight of an extremely rare 17th century parchment scroll made in Ferrara by Moshe Ben Avraham Pescarol on loan from the National Library of Israel.