“Esther & Amsterdam,” by Suzanna Murawski

“Esther & Amsterdam,” by Suzanna Murawski

You wouldn’t guess it from glancing around the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” but the book in question ends in carnage. The Persian king Ahasuerus doesn’t know that his new wife, Esther, is Jewish, or that Mordecai, a Jewish leader in the city of Shushan, is Esther’s uncle. So when the king’s advisor Haman, incensed that Mordecai has refused to bow to him, asks permission to exterminate all the J…