MASEKHET TA'ANIT MIN TALMUD BAVLI 'IM KOL HA-MEFARSHIM

Munich: Vaad Le’hotsa’at Sefarim Etsel Vaad Ha-Hatsalah, 1947. Item #40511

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 62, 50 pages, 22 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “Tractate Taanit from the Babylonian Talmud with all Commentaries. ” Vaad Hatzalah was an organization to rescue Jews in Europe from the Holocaust. After World War II, the Vaad played an active role in the spiritual rehabilitation of the survivors, continuing its operations until the early 1950s. From its establishment in 1939 until the end of 1945, the Vaad spent more than three million dollars on relief and rescue activities. While its insistence on according rescue efforts top priority and circumventing bureaucratic and legal obstacles has been favorably acknowledged by historians, its particularism and insistence on priority for Torah learning at the possible expense of rescue activities continue to be a source of debate and polemic in the Jewish community (JVL, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Holocaust - refugees- Talmud. Ta? Anit -- Commentaries. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide (OCLC: 122743796) . Pages are browning and fragile, with some chipping in margins to first few pages. Overall good condition. (HOLO2-142-7).

Price: $200.00