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A 500-year-old edition of Moses ben Maimon (also known as Maimonides or by his Hebrew acronym Rambam)’s “Guide for the Perplexed” is going to be auctioned at a starting price of $1 million on Tuesday.
About 800 years before the Pew study, Moses Maimonides received a worried letter from the leader of the Jewish community of Yemen asking him how to combat the specter of assimilation. Yemenite Jews ...
In Dara Horn’s first novel, “In the Image,” published in 2002, Rosenthal, an elderly Jewish immigrant, tells young Jason about crossing the Atlantic in steerage. When the ship finally approached the ...
The lost original of Maimonides’ third part of the “Guide to the Perplexed”, written in Arabic, has been recovered and presented to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, by Mrs.