1. Rehov Synagogue Mosaic Floor
6th–7th century c.e.
on loan from the israel antiquities authority
Exhibited at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Conservation and Installation by the Laboratories
of THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM

2. Jerusalem Talmud Shabbat
Oriental, 12th Century [ENA 1493.3]
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

3. Babylonian Talmud Bava Kamma
Oriental, 12th Century [ENA 2086.5]
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4. Babylonian Talmud Bava Metzia
Spain, 13th Century [ENA 2087.5]
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5. Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin
(used as a binding)
Spain, 13th Century [R 1851 / MS 8580]
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6. Babylonian Talmud Avodah Zarah
Ubeda, Spain, 1290 [R 15 / MS 7242]
Scribe: Shelomo ben Shaul ben-Albagli
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7. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot
Oriental, 16th Century [D 131]
MANFRED AND ANNE LEHMANN FOUNDATION, BARBARA
LEHMANN SIEGEL AND KAREN LEHMANN EISNER

8. Tosafist Commentary on Pesahim
Ashkenaz, 14th century [FR 1]
MANFRED AND ANNE LEHMANN FOUNDATION, BARBARA
LEHMANN SIEGEL AND KAREN LEHMANN EISNER

9. Babylonian Talmud Pesaòim and Yoma
Yemen, c. 1600 [R 1623 / MS 9035]
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10. Arukh
Author: Nathan ben Jehiel
Rome, c. 1469–1472
Printed by Obadiah, Manasseh,
and Benjamin of Rome
[Goff H-90]
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

11. Babylonian Talmud Hullin
Spain, pre-1492
[Goff H-110,2]
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12. Babylonian Talmud Kiddushin
Guadalajara, c. 1485
Printed by Solomon ben Moses ha-Levi
ibn Alkabetz
[Goff H-113]
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

14. Babylonian Talmud Pesahim
Constantinople, c. 1505
Printed by David and Samuel ibn Nahmias
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

15. Babylonian Talmud Rosh ha-Shanah
Fez, c. 1516
Printed by Samuel Nedivot
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16. Babylonian Talmud Eruvin
Salonika or Fez, 1521
Printed by Don Judah Gedaliah
or Samuel Nedivot
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17. Babylonian Talmud Gittin
Soncino, 1488
Printed by Joshua Solomon Soncino
or Gershom Soncino
[Goff H-106]
PRIVATE COLLECTION

18. Babylonian Talmud Moed Katan
Pesaro, 1515
Printed by Gershom Soncino
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

19. Babylonian Talmud Sotah
Venice, 1520
Printed by Daniel Bomberg
on loan from the JAY AND JEANIE SCHOTTENSTEIN FANILY JUDAICA COLLECTION

20. Babylonian Talmud
Venice, 1520–1543
Printed by Daniel Bomberg
PRIVATE COLLECTION

21. Babylonian Talmud Niddah
(printed on blue paper)
Venice, 1520–1521
Printed by Daniel Bomberg
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22. Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra
(printed on vellum)
Venice, 1520–1521
Printed by Daniel Bomberg
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

23. Bible Tehillim
Venice, 1521
Printed by Daniel Bomberg
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

24. Jerusalem Talmud
Venice, 1522–1524
Printed by Daniel Bomberg
PRIVATE COLLECTION

25. Babylonian Talmud Avodah Zarah
Venice, 1550
Printed by Marco Antonio Giustiniani
PRIVATE COLLECTION

26. Babylonian Talmud Kiddushin
Sabbioneta, 1553
Printed by Tobias Foa
PRIVATE COLLECTION

27a. Nomination of Giovanni Battista
di Frescolini and Brother Tommaso
di Urbino to Examine Hebrew texts
Rome, June 1553

 

27b. Memorandum and Report on the Condemnation of the Talmud
Rome, 1554
THE BRAGINSKY COLLECTION

28. Edict Ordering the Confiscation
and Burning of the Talmud
Venice, 1553
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

29. Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Milan, 1564
Printed by Antonius Antonianus
the grolier club of new york

30. Ein Yisrael (Ein Yaakov)
Author: Jacob ben Solomon ibn Óabib
Venice, 1566
Printed by Giorgio di Cavalli
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

31. Babylonian Talmud Bekhorot
Basle, 1580
Printed by Ambrosius Froben
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

32. Babylonian Talmud Avodah Zarah
Cracow, 1597
Printed by Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

33. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot
Salonika, 1592
Printed by Bath-Sheba/Moses de Medina
PRIVATE COLLECTION

34. Jerusalem Talmud
Cracow, 1609
Printed by Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz
PRIVATE COLLECTION

35. Babylonian Talmud Niddah
Prague, c. 1608
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36. Babylonian Talmud Megillah
Cracow, c. 1616–1620
Printed by Aaron and Mordekhai ben Isaac Prostitz
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37. Babylonian Talmud Bava Metzia
Cracow, c. 1616–1620
Printed by Aaron and Mordekhai ben Isaac Prostitz
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

38. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot
Lublin, 1617
Printed by Tzvi bar Abraham Kalonymous Jaffe
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39. Babylonian Talmud Bava Kamma
Amsterdam, 1645
Printed by Immanuel Benveniste
PRIVATE COLLECTION

40. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot
Frankfurt an der Oder, 1697
Printed by Michael Gottschalk
Published by Johann Christoph Beckmann
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

41. Babylonian Talmud Ketubbot
Amsterdam, 1716
Printed by Samuel ben Solomon Marcheses and Raphael ben Joshua de Palacio with
Judah Aryeh Leib
PRIVATE COLLECTION

42. Babylonian Talmud Rosh ha-Shanah
Amsterdam, 1721
Printed by Joseph Dayyan
PRIVATE COLLECTION

43. Babylonian Talmud Sukkah
Amsterdam, 1739
Printed by the Orphans of Solomon Proops
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44. Babylonian Talmud Sukkah
Frankfurt an der Oder/Berlin, 1722
Printed by Michael Gottschalk and Daniel Jablonski
PRIVATE COLLECTION

45. Babylonian Talmud Megillah
Wilhermsdorf, c. 1716–1723
Printed by Tzvi Hirsch ben Hayyim
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

46. Babylonian Talmud Bava Kama
Frankfurt an der Oder/Berlin, 1736
Printed by F. Grillo and
Aaron ben Moses Rofe of Lissa
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

47. Babylonian Talmud Eruvin
Zolkiew, 1746
Printed by Gershon ben Hayyim David,
David ben Menahem Mann,
and Hayyim David ben Aaron David
LIBRARY OF AGUDAS CHASSIDEI CHABBAD

48. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot
Amsterdam, 1752
Printed by Joseph and Jacob ben Solomon Proops
PRIVATE COLLECTION

49. Babylonian Talmud Eruvin
Bohemia, 1704 [R 52 / MS 5874]
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

50. Babylonian Talmud Sukkah
Halberstadt, 1715 [HUC Cincinnati Ms. 70]
KLAU LIBRARY, CINCINATI, HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-
JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION

51. Babylonian Talmud Makkot
Prague, 1716 [R 53 / MS 5875]
Scribe: Isaac ben Abraham
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

52. Babylonian Talmud Bava Kamma
Frankfurt, 1721
Scribe: Amschel Moses Rothschild
ARCHIVES OF THE YIVO INSTITUTE
FOR JEWISH RESEARCH

53. Autograph Notes
of Rabbi Elijah, Gaon of Vilna
Jerusalem Talmud Seder Zeraim
Amsterdam, 1710

on loan from MA-ATIKEI HASHEMUA INSTITUTE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF MANUSCRIPTS OF RABBI ELLTAHU, THE GAON OF VILNA, rabbi yedidiya halevi fraenkel, director

54. Babylonian Talmud Avodah Zarah
Slavuta, 1820
Printed by Samuel Abba and Pinòas Shapira
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

55. Babylonian Talmud Shabbat
Lemberg, 1861
Printed by S. Back and Abraham Isaac Menkes
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

56. Babylonian Talmud Hullin
Vienna, 1865
Printed by L.C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch
Published by Jacob Schlossberg
PRIVATE COLLECTION

57. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot
Vilna, 1880
Printed by the Widow and Brothers Romm
PRIVATE COLLECTION

58. Jerusalem Talmud Bikkurim
Chicago, 1887
Printed by Rosenberg Bros.
Published by Abraham Eliezer Alperstein
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

59. Forged Jerusalem Talmud Seder Kodashim
Author: Solomon Judah Algazi-Friedlaender
Hungary, 1907
Printed by Jacob Widder
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

61. Broadside Announcing the First
Siyyum ha-Shas Celebration
Jerusalem, 1931
Printed by Zuckerman Press
JAY AND JEANIE SCHOTTENSTEIN FANILY JUDAICA COLLECTION

62. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot
Budapest, 1941
Printed by Mishar
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

63. Babylonian Talmud Shabbat
Shanghai, 1942
Printed by Torah Or
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

64. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot-
“Survivor’s Talmud”
Munich-Heidelberg, 1948
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

65. Massekhet Purim
Author: Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
Venice, 1552
Printed by Daniel ben Cornelius Adelkind
PRIVATE COLLECTION

66. Massekhet Purim
Author: Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
Amsterdam, 1752
THE BRAGINSKY COLLECTION

67. Massekhet Prohibishon
Author: Gerson Kiss
Brooklyn, 1929
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

68. Tractatus Talmudici Aboda sara
Hamburg, 1705
Translated by Georg Elieser Edzard
Printed by Georg Dietrich Spiering
Published by Christan Liebezeit
THE LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

69. Le Talmud de Babylone
Leipzig, 1831
Translated by Luigi Chiarini
Published by J. A. G. Weigel
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70. Talmud Babli: Babylonischer
Talmud. Tractat Berachoth
Berlin, 1842
Translated by Ephraim Moses ben Alexander
Susskind Pinner
Published by Brandus
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

71. Der Babylonische Talmud
Berlin, 1897
Translated by Lazarus Goldschmidt
Printed by Benjamin Harz Verlag
PRIVATE COLLECTION

72. Der Babylonische Talmud in Auswahl
Berlin, 1924
Translated by Jacob Fromer
Illustrated by Joseph Budko
Printed by I. Lewent
PRIVATE COLLECTION

73. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot
London, 1922
Translated by Jacob Meir Salkind
Published by B. Weinberg
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

74. Babylonian Talmud Bava Kamma
Odessa, 1892
Translated by Moisei Bazilevskii
Published by A. Schultz
MENDEL GOTTESMAN LIBRARY, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

75. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud Eruvin
New York, 1897
Published by Michael Levi Rodkinson
PRIVATE COLLECTION

76. The Treatise Ta’anit of the
Babylonian Talmud
Philadelphia, 1928
Translated by Henry Malter
Published by The Jewish Publication Society of America
PRIVATE COLLECTION

77. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot
Braille Edition
Bnei Brak, 1995
Published by Messilah-Makhon Sifrei Yahadut
la-Adam ha-Mugbal
PRIVATE COLLECTION

78a. Talmud Bavli Bava Kamma
Commentary by Adin Steinsaltz
Jerusalem, 1997
Published by The Israel Institute
for Talmudic Publications
THE ALEPH SOCIETY

78b. The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition
Volume 17: Tractate Sanhedrin, Part III
New York, 1998
Published by Random House
THE ALEPH SOCIETY

79. Schottenstein Talmud
Brooklyn, 1990–2005
Published by Artscroll/Mesorah Publications
on loan from ARTSCROLL/MESORAH PUBLICATIONS

80. Illustrations of Talmud Tractates by Bernard Eliyahu Sidi Tractates Taanit,
Rosh ha-Shanah and Yoma.
Ink, gouache, and collage works on paper