Scholars
Maimonides
Moses ben Maimon was born in Cordoba in 1138, the son of a judge who was still a refugee from the Almohad conquest of his city when the boy began to learn…
Archive
Maimonides
Books
A Manuscript in Two Museums
On a winter afternoon in 2023, in Gallery 503 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue, the second volume of a 15th-century Hebrew manuscript rests open on a low wooden…
Transmission
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.…
Places
The Tiberias Masoretes
On a low stone shelf above the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, a city once called Tiberias has been, since the second century, the principal Jewish intellectual centre of the…