Language:
Hebrew
Pages:
[4] Blatt, 431 Seiten, [3] Blatt
Year of publication:
1939
Series Statement:
Kovets ma'ase ha-Tana'im
Series Statement:
Kovets ma'ase ha-Tana'im
Keywords:
Sifre Deuteronomium
Abstract:
Siphre ad Deuteronomium / "Sifre al Sefer Devarim", edited by Louis Finkelstein. Berlin: Jüdischer Kulturbund in Deutschland [cultural federation of German Jews], late 1939. Hebrew, with a Latin title page. This book is one of the last books printed by the Cultural Federation of German Jews under Nazi regime, and its publication was finished about a month after the outbreak of the war. The basis for this book is a manuscript from the estate of the scholar Haim Shaul Horowitz (1858-1921), which was studied by Eliezer Aryeh (Louis) Finkelstein, who added textual criticism and comments and decided to publish it as one of the series of books "Kovetz Ma'assey HaTana'im". In view of the difficulties involved in publishing Jewish books in Nazi Germany, Finkelstein was obliged to publish the book in parts, as pamphlets, and move the printing location between various towns in Germany. Between the years 1935 and 1937 the booklets were printed in Breslau, and in 1939, just before the war, printing was moved to Berlin, sponsored by the Cultural Federation of German Jews, the only institute that still had the permission, at the time, to print Jewish books. Although the process of destroying Jewish books was already at its peak, the publishers continued, while demonstrating devotion and undertaking a serious risk, to print this book, and in October 1939, about a month after the outbreak of war, they succeeded in accomplishing the printing. It seems that this copy was sent to Switzerland, where it was bound and survived the war. To the best of our knowledge, no original Jewish books were printed later under the Nazi regime.
Note:
Jüdisches Erscheinungsjahr: 5700
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