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LOT 20:
(AMERICA). Masechet Bikurim min Talmud Yerushalmi. ...
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(AMERICA).
Masechet Bikurim min Talmud Yerushalmi. With commentary by Avraham Eliezer Alperstein.
FIRST EDITION.
Architectural title-page.
ff. (2), 45 (i.e. 48), (2). Touch stained. Contemporary boards, worn. Folio.
Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 568.
Chicago, Rosenberg Bros., 1887.
The First Tractate of the Talmud and first Talmudic Commentary Printed in America.
The text of Tractate Bikurim (First Fruits) of the Jerusalem Talmud is here surrounded by three commentaries, all prepared by Alperstein.
This was the first volume of the Talmud published in America and “the typography…compares favorably with the finest European typography.” See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth, p. 318.
Alperstein (1853-1917) was born in Kobrin, Lithuania, and studied under the guidance of R. Yoseph Dov Halevi Soloveitchik and R. Ya’akov David Willowsky (Ridba’z). After serving as a rabbi in Slabodka and its environs, he emigrated to Americain 1881 where he occupied pulpits in New York, Chicago, and St. Paul. He was appointed vice president of the Agudath HaRabbonim and was one of the first instructors at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (Yeshiva University).
In his introduction Alperstein extolled the virtues of the members of his congregation in Chicago. Evidently that relationship changed, for in a later edition he revised the introduction referring to his community as “wild boors.”
See Moshe Sherman, Orthodox Judaism in America, pp. 18-20; M.A. Gutstein, A Priceless Heritage: The Epic Growth of 19th Century Chicago Jewry (1953) pp. 128-9; and L. Mishkin, Defusei Chicago Be’Ivrith UbeYiddish in: Chicago Pinkas (1952) no. 8.
