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Talmud Tractate Sotah - Historic Edition Lublin 1619 - Extremely Rare - Talmud Tractate Sotah - Historic Edition Lublin 1619 - Extremely Rare K. Pilarczyk says about the history of printing the Lublin edition of Babylonian Talmud: The publishing house had already been working for 12 years, when it started to print this work, that required good understanding of printing art as well as collaboration with eminent Talmudists, who could prepare the text to be published. (...) During the printing process, (...) owners changed. In the beginning it was owned by Chaim ben Icchak and Han[a?] bat Jakar (1556–1564), then by Eliezer ben Icchak and Josef (1566–1572), and after that it was bought by Kalonimos ben Mardochaj Jafe and he run it until 1597. They used to select collaborators and win Jewish philanthropists, who financed printing of the book, taking care about continuity of religious message among Judaism believers, especially those who lived in the Commonwealth. They used to hire proofreaders among erudite Talmudists, not mentioning normal workers – typesetters, printers, whose skills used to make their publications much more attractive. Krzysztof Pilarczyk: Another owner of Jewish publishing house in Lublin, who published Babylonian Talmud, was Cwi ben Kalonimos Jafe, called sometimes Cwi ben Abraham Kalonimos Jafe or Cwi [Hirsz] ben Abraham Kalmankes Kalonimos Jafe. He run Lublin printing office in years 1604–16285. He started to print next tractates of Babylonian Talmud in 1617. Printing of the second edition of Talmud took 12 years, including pauses, and the last tractate was printed in 1639 in the printing house run by Cwi Kalonimos’ sons.