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In one modern Purim spiel, petty revolutionaries complain about Mordecai’s piety. Ironically, this subtly subversive Yiddish text was originally shunned...
An annual outlet for the pressure cooker of the medieval Jewish community, the Purim spiel subtly subverts the power structures...
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