Communicating Esther: The Diffusion and Reception of a Biblical Dream

Communicating Esther presents a communications approach to the second-most written about book of the Bible, the book of Esther, and the ritual that it anchors, the Jewish carnival of Purim. This book will appeal to all researchers of communication and religion, communication and the Bible, and communication and Judaism.

Elihu Katz (1926-2021), was one of the founding fathers of communication as a discipline. After graduating from Columbia University and teaching at the University of Chicago he immigrated to Israel, established communication studies in the country, and also served as the founding director of Israeli Television. After retiring from the Hebrew University and USC he was for many years the Sterling Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Menahem Blondheim is the Karl and Matilda Newhouse Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication and the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently serving as the Dean of the School of Media Studies at Israel’s College of Management, his research fields include the history of communication, particularly in the American and the Jewish experience, and media technologies, old and new.