Masechta Berachoth. With commentaries

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 534

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Masechta Berachoth. With commentaries

One (of 19) volumes. Additional illustrated title depicting Nazi slave camp and above the landscape of the Holy Land and the legend: “From bondage to Freedom, from Darkness to a Great Light.” Lightly browned. Original boards. Folio

Munich-Heidelberg, American Quarter, Germany: Druckerel Carl Winter, under supervision of Procurement Division, United States Army 1948

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $700

First volume of an edition of the Talmud published three years after the Holocaust by the American Military Command and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Germany. It is dedicated to the United States Army “[who] played a major role in the rescue of the Jewish people from total annihilation.” See A.J. Karp, Library of Congress Catalogue pp. 52-5 (illustrated) for the details of this monumental publishing feat. Seven hundred sets were printed and distributed world-wide, a complete set has yet to appear at auction