(Talmud, Babylonian). With commentaries. A Complete Set, in 19 Volumes.

(HOLOCAUST)

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

Munich-Heidelberg, American Quarter, Germany

1948

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.”

A Complete Set of the Historic Sheartith Hapleitah Shas. No record of a complete set ever offered at public auction. 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. JIM: Place text below image on it’s own page.