"'People of the Book' opens right after the Bosnian war. It's 1996, and the Haggadah has just turned up in a bank vault, where it was hidden by a Muslim librarian who rescued the codex under heavy shelling. Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath has been given the job of analyzing and conserving the book, 'a lavishly illuminated Hebrew manuscript made at a time when Jewish belief was firmly against illustrations of any kind.'"

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