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Books of Spanish Leather

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
November 23, 2011

By coincidence (or at least by fortuitous alignment of very real trends), for the first time ever three medieval Hebrew Bibles are on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today in Tablet Magazine, gallerist Robin Cembalest explains how they differ and what they have in common—with each other as well as with contemporaneous Islamic holy books.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.