Babylonian Talmud – Shanghai, 1942-1946 – Printed by Students of the Mir Yeshiva

Babylonian Talmud – Shanghai, 1942-1946 – Printed by Students of the Mir Yeshiva
18 volumes from the Babylonian Talmud edition published by students of the Mir Yeshiva who had escaped from Europe to Shanghai during the Holocaust. Shanghai, 1942-1946.
All tractates of the Babylonian Talmud, except for Tractates Berachot and Yevamot (the latter was not printed in this edition), in 18 volumes. Nine volumes note the publisher as "Beit Otzar HaSefarim 'Ezrat Torah' of the holy Mir yeshiva"; three volumes note the publisher as "Printing committee 'Torah Or'"; one volume notes the publisher as "Menadvim" (the title page also bears an inked stamp of "Otzar HaSefarim 'Ezrat Torah'") and one volume notes "printed by the Mir Yeshiva" (Hebrew). Two volumes do not note the publisher's name at all and in two others, the title page is missing.
handwritten ownership inscription to most volumes, reading "Baruch Rosenberg" (Hebrew). Possibly, these volumes belonged to Rabbi Baruch Rosenberg (1923-2004), head of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Berak and a member of Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah, who was a student of the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai.
18 volumes. Approx. 25 cm. Good-fair to fair-poor condition. Worming. Stains and blemishes. Missing and detached leaves. Closed and open tears. Worn bindings.
Enclosed: Tractate Yevamot (the only tractate not printed in Shanghai). Munich: "The Committee for Publishing Books by Va'ad HaHatzalah", 1948.