Babylonian Talmud – Munich, 1948 – Complete Set

Babylonian Talmud – Munich, 1948 – Complete Set
Babylonian Talmud - complete set. Munich-Heidelberg, 1948. "Published by the Union of Rabbis in the American Occupation Zone in Germany".
As WWII came to an end, and survivors gathered in DP camps, the need arose for volumes of the Talmud and other holy books to benefit the refugees. From 1946, the Union of Rabbis in Germany, with the support of the American Army and the Joint, undertook the project of printing the Talmud for the survivors. At first, individual tractates were printed in various formats. In 1948, a complete edition of the Talmud was published for the first time - the edition here. Each volume contains two title pages. The first title page was designed specifically to commemorate the printing of the Talmud on the scorched soil of Germany, the upper-part bearing an illustration of a Jewish village, captioned: "From servitude to salvation, from darkness to great light"; the bottom of the title page contains an illustration of barbed wire fencing and a labor camp, captioned: "Labor camp in Germany during Nazi occupation". "They almost destroyed me on earth, but I did not forsake Your precepts".
19 volumes. 39 cm. Some leaves on dry paper. Overall good condition. Stains, tears and wear. Large tears to several leaves. Title page of Tractate Rosh Hashanah lacking. Original bindings, repaired with new cloth spines, and cloth reinforcing to edges.