GINZBERG, LOUIS. Seridei HaYerushalmi min HaGenizah asher B'Mitzrayim / Yerushalmi Fragments from the Genizah

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

Tzvi Hirsch Itzkowski for the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

New York (i.e. Berlin)

1909

English and Hebrew titles. Text in Hebrew with supplementary English preface

Friedberg, S-2396; Goldman 606

The first edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, produced by Bomberg in Venice in 1523, was based on the Leiden manuscript of the Yerushalmi. It was not until the discovery of the Cairo Genizah in the 19th-century that other manuscripts of the Yerushalmi became available for the first time. Though fragmentary, these Genizah manuscripts are invaluable for providing alternate - and occasionally superior - readings of the ancient texts. In addition to painstakingly reproducing the Genizah texts, Ginzberg provided here footnotes comparing the Genizah version to the printed version. He also supplemented a collection of extracts from the Yerushalmi found in the first edition of the Yalkut Shimoni (Salonika, 1526-7) and selected variants to Seder Zera'im of the Yerushalmi from Vatican manuscript 133. The volume is considered groundbreaking in the field of Talmudic research