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  1. By the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel—and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages ...

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  2. Matti Friedman, a journalist, is the author of three previous works of nonfiction. His 2019 book Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, won the Natan Book Award and the Canadian Jewish Book Award. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War (2016) was chosen as a New York Times’ Notable Book and as one of Amazon ...

  3. Back to 1948 (The Free Press, Oct. 19, 2023) My smartphone says it’s October 2023, but in Israel it feels like 1948. That was the year this country was…. When Did Humans Start Settling Down? (Smithsonian Magazine, July/August 2023) Matti Friedman Twelve thousand years ago, long before the beginning of recorded history, a group of perhaps ...

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  4. Jan 1, 2012 · Totally loved this book by Israeli-Canadian author, Matt Friedman. Such a sad story about what happened to the Syrian Jewish community, and the mystery of the ever-moving Codex is a page turner - highly recommended if you love great non-fiction, cultural history and reading about the early years of the State of Israel.

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  5. Top Matti Friedman titles. Page 1 of 1. Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. 380. Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel. 866. The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books. 668. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War.

  6. Matti Friedman. Friedman in 2017. Matti Friedman ( Hebrew: מתי פרידמן) is a Canadian-Israeli journalist and author. He is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times, [1] and columnist for Tablet magazine. [2]

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  8. Mar 1, 2021 · Friedman interweaves the tale of the creation of the Codex with the modern story of its finding, uncovering the truth behind many of its myths and legends along the way. The most troubling tales told here, however, are ones of greed -- a point the author makes repeatedly by referring to commandments against stealing and lust contained within the missing pieces themselves.

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