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Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
The Catastrophe of 1947 | p. 3 |
Origins of the Crown and Its Significance | p. 15 |
Development of the Codex | p. 15 |
Tiberias | p. 15 |
The Development of Notational Systems and the Advent of the Tiberian Masoretes | p. 18 |
The Writing of the Crown | p. 23 |
Determining the Crown's Authorship | p. 25 |
Mainmonides and the Crown | p. 27 |
The Karaite Question | p. 33 |
The Story of Abraham Firkovich | p. 37 |
The Significance of the Crown | p. 42 |
The Crown's History from 11th-Century Jerusalem to 20th-Century Aleppo | p. 47 |
The Crown in Jerusalem | p. 47 |
The Crown in Fostat | p. 49 |
Maimonides' Descendants and the Crown's Transfer to Aleppo | p. 50 |
Syria | p. 54 |
Aleppo | p. 54 |
The Jewish Community of Aleppo | p. 56 |
The Great Synagogue | p. 61 |
Aleppan Traditions Regarding the Crown | p. 63 |
Gathering Storm Clouds | p. 65 |
The Quest to Save the Crown | p. 71 |
Efforts to Save the Crown before the 1947 Pogrom | p. 71 |
The Crown's Whereabouts in the Pogrom's Immediate Aftermath | p. 75 |
The Search for the Crown | p. 85 |
Murad Faham, Rescuer of the Crown | p. 88 |
Faham and the Fate of the Crown | p. 91 |
The Disputed Crown and Its Restoration | p. 101 |
The Crown Arrives in Israel | p. 101 |
The Crown Gains a Permanent Home | p. 106 |
The Condition of the Crown before the 1947 Pogrom | p. 109 |
The Current Condition of the Crown | p. 110 |
The Order of the Books in the Crown | p. 113 |
The Missing Sections | p. 114 |
Extant Crown Pages from Photographs and a Fragment | p. 120 |
Recovery and Reconstruction of the Text | p. 122 |
Epilogue: The Future of the Crown | p. 128 |
The Fate of the Missing Pages | p. 128 |
A Mandate to Restore the Crown | p. 130 |
Endnotes | p. 141 |
Glossary | p. 163 |
Bibliography | p. 175 |
Index | p. 187 |
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