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Auction 15 · Lot 245
(Talmud, Babylonian). With commentaries. A Complete Set, in Nineteen Volumes
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- $3,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HOLOCAUST)
printer
Druckerel Carl Winter, under supervision of Procurement Division, United States Army
Place
Munich-Heidelberg, American Quarter, Germany
Publication
1948
Description
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.”
summary
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
Original brown boards. Folio
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