(Talmud, Babylonian). With commentaries. A Complete Set, in Nineteen Volumes

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 245

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(Talmud, Babylonian). With commentaries. A Complete Set, in Nineteen 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.” Original brown boards. Folio

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

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

A Complete Set of the Historic Sheartith Hapleitah Shas. This edition of the Talmud was published, with Herculean efforts, soon after the Liberation of Europe from Nazi tyranny 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