Talmud Bavli. Seventeen (of 19) volumes (all published). * With: Eight further rabbinic texts, Shanghai imprints

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Shanghai

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Together, 25 volumes. A detailed list available upon request

The entire Talmud (excluding Tractate Yevamoth), was printed in Shanghai between 1942 and 1946. The first volumes were Bechoroth and Shabbath published by the Torah Or Committee in 1942-43. The bulk were published by the Mirrer Yeshiva’s library “Ezrath Torah” and distributed among its' students. Many volumes have the Ezrath Torah stamp. See Habermann’s addition to Rabinowitz, Ma’amar Al Hadfasath Ha-Talmud (1952) p.191; Z. Harkavy, Defusei Shanghai in: Ha- Sepher, Vol. IX. See also Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Printing the Talmud (2005) number 63. The World War II odyssey of the entire student- and faculty-body of the Mirrer Yeshiva in their extraordinary trek from Lithuania, across Russia, into Japan and finally relative safety in China has been recorded in detail in a number of publications (see C. Hertzman, Escape to Shanghai)