Masechta Berachoth. With commentaries

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Druckerel Carl Winter, under supervision of Procurement Division, United States Army

Munich-Heidelberg, American Quarter, Germany

1948

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.”

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