Image: Purim painting Safed
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Description: Purim painting, untitled. Safed, Israel, 19th century. Hasidic Jews celebrating Purim with a Sephardic Jew (left). The inscription is part of a passage from the Talmud urging Jews to imbibe enough alcohol so that they will not know the difference between the phrases “cursed is Haman” and “blessed is Mordechai.” Collection of Isaac Einhorn, Tel Aviv. (Erich Lessing/Art Resource NY)
Title: Purim painting Safed
Credit: Hasidism Historical overview The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author
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