Emily Colbert Cairns: 1 book
Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora
Queen of the Conversas
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people -- was contested in the cultures...
