Redeeming Books from the People of the Book: Politics of Rescue from 1840 to the Legacy of a Zionist Mission in Damascus

The Damascus Affair of 1840 has often been interpreted as one the finest hours of modern Jewish solidarity. This essay probes an unexplored legacy of that chain of events, a sense of entitlement to spoils in the form of cultural artifacts, especially Hebrew manuscripts, a Jewish mutation of "in...

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Main Author: Gerber, Noah S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2022
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2022, Volume: 112, Issue: 3, Pages: 520-545
Further subjects:B Farhi Bible
B Ottoman Syria
B Salomon Munk
B cultural patrimony
B Jewish Orientalism
B Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews
B Abraham Geiger
B Damascus
B Geniza
B David Yellin
B biblical codex
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