[Magdalen] hissing at Haman

[Jay Weigel]

My whole point in posting about the book was that people were so up in arms
about the theme that they were posting inflammatory "anti" posts about
something they a) hadn't read, in most cases, and b) didn't recognize the
source of. I very much doubt that most of them were even familiar with the
book of Esther!

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sounds like a familiar theme... Plug in any era, movement, politics,
> sex.... Made me think of Ayn Rand's first novel - We The Living. Set during
> the early years of communist Soviet Union...In the hostile conditions of
> 1920s Soviet Russia, a young woman struggles to preserve her values --
> including the man she loves. In pursuit of this goal, she undertakes an
> affair with an idealistic Communist soldier, and the consequences change
> all of their lives.
> L
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 27, 2015, at 6:26 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There was an enormous kerfuffle this year among the Romance Writers of
> American when a book based on the book of Esther but set during WWII was
> nominated for an award. In the book, a young Jewish woman named Hadassah
> Benjamin falls in love with a Nazi commandant and saves a substantial
> number of Jews. A huge e-mail and Facebook campaign against the award
> ensued, most of the e-mails and posts apparently coming from people who
> (predictably) had not read the book and didn't know what it was based on. I
> guess it's okay for a respectable Jewish girl to fall in love with (and use
> to save her people) a Persian king but not a Nazi commandant.
>
> I'm also betting at least half the complainers were unfamiliar with the
> book of Esther.
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> King Xerxes???  What happened to Ahasuerus!?
> >> After I wrote that, I found this explanation in a footnote:
> >>
> >> Ahasuerus is a Latin-English transcription of the Hebrew form of the
> > Persian name Kshajarsha, in Gr. Xerxes.
> >>
> >> Good grief...!
> >
> > All part of what makes the film The Book of Esther so entertaining. :)
> > (There's actually some good acting in it, among the bad acting. But
> > it's definitely low-budget. I love what one reviewer said, that it
> > boasts a cast of tens. LOL).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>