(Talmud, Babylonian). Masechta Baba Bathra. With commentaries

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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(Talmud, Babylonian). Masechta Baba Bathra. With commentaries

One (of 19) volumes. Additional illustrated title depicting Nazi concentration camp with the landscape of the Holy Land above featuring the legend: “From Bondage to Freedom, from Darkness to a Great Light.” Marginal notations. Original boards, sympathetically rebacked retaining original backstrip. Folio

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

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $650

A volume from an edition of the Talmud, published soon after the Holocaust by the American Military Command together with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Germany. It was 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 produced under extraordinary historic circumstances. Seven hundred sets were printed and distributed, a complete set has yet to appear at auction