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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…
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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…