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A Crown of Paper
Two objects kept in the Great Synagogue of Aleppo bore the same name, and neither of them resembled the other. One was a worked mass of silver, made to be fitted over…
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The Crown of Aleppo
In the spring of 1958 a single bound parchment codex, wrapped in cloth and hidden in a small suitcase, was carried across the Syrian–Turkish border by a cheese merchant named Murad Faham.…