(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud. Edited and ...

New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud. Edited and translated by Michael L. Rodkinson.

First Edition with translation into English. Photographic frontispiece portraits of Rodkinson and fellow editor
Dr. Isaac Wise . Twenty volumes, complete here bound in 16 (including Rodkinson's History of the Talmud). An uncut and largely unopened set. Each volume with book-plate of Gustav Ehrenberg, including his original purchase receipt (1900). Boards with paper spine labels. 4to. Singerman 5097.

New York: 1896-1903.


The First Edition of the first translation of the Talmud into English.
     Although a pioneering effort, this abridged translation was not particularly well received by many of the editor's scholarly peers. For more, see Marvin J. Heller, Deciphering the Talmud: The First English Edition of the Talmud Revisited. Michael Levi Rodkinson: His Translation of the Talmud, and the Ensuing Controversy in: Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book (Leiden, 2013) Chap. 13.
     Rodkinson (original surname Frumkin), was born into a Russian Chabad-oriented family in 1845 and migrated to America in 1888.