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The Nuremberg Trial in Megillat Esther
- Modern Judaism
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 41, Number 1, February 2021
- pp. 31-46
- Article
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Abstract
ABSTRACT:
There is a very popular teaching in Orthodox circles that the small letters found in the writing of the names of the sons of Haman in Megillat Esther are a reference to the year of the Nuremberg trials and the ten Nazis hanged at that time. In this article we will explore where this teaching originated, what it is based on, and what its message is understood to be.
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