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Purim Sheni Readings

This is an archive of megillot written for a Purim Sheni, a second or secondary Purim. In many Jewish communities around the world, “local Purims” celebrating the survival of specific communities are made which include the retelling of stories of their redemption under chilling circumstances.

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💬 מְגִלַּת פִּסְגָּה | Megillat Fustat — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 28th of Adar commemorating the deliverance of Egyptian Jewry from Hain Ahmed Pasha in 1524

Behold, a full text of the Megillah of Fustat, telling a story of a great miracle that happened in 1524 CE (5284 AM).

Categories:

Extracanonical Megillot, Purim Sheni Readings

Tags:

16th century C.E., 28 Adar, 54th century A.M., Egyptian Jewry, Fustat, Ottoman Egypt, the KA

Contributor(s):

Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

💬 מְגִלַּת סֶבַּאצְטִיָין | Megillat Sebastiano — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 1st of Elul commemorating the deliverance of Maghrebi Jewry from King Sebastian of Portugal in 1578

Presenting the full, somewhat short text of the Megillah of Sebastiano, telling the story of a great miracle that occurred to the Jewish community of Morocco on 1 Elul 5338, or August 4 1578 CE. On that day, King Sebastian of Portugal attempted to conquer Alcácer Quibir in North Africa — and inevitably to force the inquisition on the Jews of Morocco. But he was turned back at the last moment, protecting Moroccan independence for several more centuries. This scroll is traditionally recited in Jewish communities in the Maghreb to celebrate the repulsion of the Portuguese.

Categories:

Extracanonical Megillot, Purim Sheni Readings

Tags:

16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Alef b'Elul, Maghrebi Jewry, Morocco, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל)

Contributor(s):

Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

💬 מְגִלַּת סָארַגוֹסָא | Megillat Saragossa — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 17th of Shəvat commemorating the legendary deliverance of Aragonese (or Sicilian) Jewry

The Megillat Saragossa (also known as the Megillat Syracusa) in Hebrew and English, named after the tale of rescue and reversal of fortune in the cultural memory of some Sepharadi communities, to be read on the 17th of Shəvat.

Categories:

Extracanonical Megillot, Purim Sheni Readings

Tags:

15th century C.E., 17 Shəvat, 52nd century A.M., local communal deliverance commemorations, medieval megillot, romanticism, second Purims

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown

💬 מְגִלַּת קוּרִיאֵל | The Scroll of Curiel — a personal family megillah for the 21st of Adar on the recovery of David Curiel from a life-threatening assault in Amsterdam (1628)

A scroll recounting the miraculous recovery of David Curiel (1594-1666), one of the founders of the Jewish community of Amsterdam, after undergoing a violent attack.

Categories:

Extracanonical Megillot, Purim Sheni Readings

Tags:

17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Dutch Jewry, Readings special to Jewish leap years, Spanish-Portuguese, ultraviolence, Western Sefaradim

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Mosheh Gideon Abudiente (translation) and David Curiel

💬 מְגִלַּת הַפּאָװִדלָא | Megilat Povidl (Shir haMa’alot l’David) — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 10th of Adar liberation of David Brandeis (Powidlpurim) in 1731

The megillah for Plum-Jam Purim or Powidlpurim, a family Purim celebrated by the Brandeis family of Bumsla, Bohemia (Czech: Mladá Boleslav; German: Jungbunzlau) on 10 Adar to commemorate David Brandeis’ liberation from prison on trumped-up charges of poisoning. First published along with a German translation and some genealogical notes in Magazin für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums, vol. 15, 1888. According to Chef/Rabbi Gil Marks z”l, the celebration of Plum-Jam Purim was the origin of prune hamantaschen as a concept — prior to 1731 all hamantaschen had a poppy seed filling!

Categories:

Extracanonical Megillot, Purim Sheni Readings

Tags:

18th century C.E., 55th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German translation, liberation, salvation, Slavery & Captivity

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Moritz Grünwald (translation) and David Brandeis

💬 מְגִילַּת הִיטְלֶיר | Megillat Hitler — a Purim Sheni scroll for French Armistice Day [after World War Ⅱ] by Asher P. Ḥassine (Casablanca, 1943)

A megillah attesting to the terrible events of World War II from the vantage of North African Jewry in Casablanca.

Categories:

Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Day Readings, Extracanonical Megillot, Modern Miscellany, 🌐 Armistice Day Readings, Purim Sheni Readings

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Maghrebi Jewry, Morocco, the Holocaust, World War Ⅱ

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Asher Ḥassine

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