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".
After WWII, the demand for Talmud and holy books by surviving Jews in the DP camps exceeded the available copies. In 1946, the Union of Rabbis in Germany, with the assistance of the United States Army and the JDC, began to print the Talmud for Holocaust survivors. At first, only a few tractates were printed in various formats. In 1948, a complete edition of the Talmud – the present edition – was printed for the first time. Each volume contains two title pages. The first title page was especially designed to commemorate the printing of the Talmud in post-Holocaust Germany; on its upper part is an illustration of a Jewish town with the caption "From slavery to redemption and from darkness to great light"; on its lower part is an illustration of barbed wire fences and a labor camp, with the captions: "Labor camp in Germany during the Nazi era", "They almost destroyed me on earth, but I did not forsake Your precepts" (Psalms 119).
19 volumes. 39 cm. Some dry paper. Most volumes in good condition. Some volumes in good-fair condition, with dampstains. Stains. Handwritten inscriptions in several places. Original bindings. Tears to spines of about half of the volumes, repaired with tape. Damage to bindings; wear and scuffs to corners and extremities.