Esther 2:10

Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred We must suppose that it would easily be discovered that she, like many of her companions (see Esther 2:3), was not Persian by nation. Thus what she desired to conceal was not simply that she was a foreigner, but that she was a Jewess. Nevertheless we have no knowledge from any other source that there was a special antipathy to her people on the part of the Persians. The concealment of her nationality must, one would think, have involved her in various acts both connected with food (cp. Daniel 1:8 etc.) and otherwise, which were inconsistent with Judaism. According to the Targum Shçnîthe king on one occasion said to her, "Pray, tell me, who are thy people, and what is thy family?" She replied, "I am ignorant both concerning my people and concerning my family, because, when I was quite a child, my father and mother died and left me." (Cassel, Comm.p. 302.)