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LOT 54:
Tractate Baba Batra With Handwritten Testimony of the Saving of the Book During the Holocaust and a Prayer for the ...
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Tractate Baba Batra With Handwritten Testimony of the Saving of the Book During the Holocaust and a Prayer for the Downfall of the Nazis, Oświęcim, 1945
Tractate Baba Batra from the Babylonian Talmud. Vilna, 1903. With a number of scholarly glosses, and with a handwritten introduction on the flyleaf relating what happened to the book during the Holocaust. Oświęcim [known as Auschwitz in German], 1945.
Specifications: [2], 458, 72 pages. Paper. 2 title pages.
Unique Features: In the foreword added by hand on the flyleaf, at the end of the war in Auschwitz, "This Gemara was hidden and concealed from everyone for the six years of the war, with precious books ... until the time came for his words to be heard, the king freed and the shepherd released his flock, under the eyes of the Germans, they will be attacked ... and will have many many casualties until they are lost forever, wherever you turn, mountains and hills ... in the fields and the forests are corpses upon corpses ..." is written. The writer also added [2] scholarly glosses on the tractate.
Condition: Very fine. Tear on page 43 without lack. Simple binding.
