Babylonian Talmud, Megillah, Ta'anit, Zhitomir 1864
תלמוד בבלי - תענית, מגילה - Hasidic
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- Lot Number 49263
- Title (English) Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Megillah, Ta'anit
- Title (Hebrew) תלמוד בבלי - תענית, מגילה
- Note Hasidic
- City Zhitomir
- Publisher Hanina Lipa and Joshua Heschel Shapira
- Publication Date 1864
- Estimated Price - Low 300
- Estimated Price - High 600
- Item # 1528529
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Physical Description
36, 6, 169-182; 41, 6, 257-278; ff., folio, 385:260 mm., wide margins, age damp and use staining. Good copies not bound.
Popular and heavily studied tractates.
Detail Description
Two tractates of the famous hasidic edition of the Talmud. In 1847 the Shapira printing press was established by the three brothers Hanina Lipa, Aryeh Leib, and Joshua Heschel Shapira, sons of R. Samuel Abraham Abba Shapira, the printer in Slavuta. Until 1862 this was one of the only two Hebrew presses the Russian government permitted to operate in the whole of Russia, the other being in Vilna. This press had 18 hand presses and four additional large presses. In 1851 Aryeh Leib broke away and established his own printing press in Zhitomir. In these two establishments only sacred books of every kind were printed.
References
Not in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960; EJ