Babylonian Talmud – Shanghai, 1942-1946 – Fine 19-Volume Set

Babylonian Talmud – Shanghai, 1942-1946 – Fine 19-Volume Set
Babylonian Talmud. Shanghai, 1942-1946. Published by students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai.
Complete set of the Babylonian Talmud, printed in Shanghai between 1942 and 1946 by students of the Mir yeshiva who escaped to the Far East during the Holocaust.
Reduced photocopy of the Romm Vilna Talmud.
The "publishing committee" of the Mir yeshiva is referred to on the title pages in various ways: "The Ezrat Torah Library of the Mir Yeshiva", "Torah Or publishing committee", "Mir Yeshiva" and "Menadvim Publishing".
19 volumes. Approx. 26 cm. Brittle paper in a few volumes. Overall good condition. Stains. Marginal wear and tears to some leaves. Handwritten ownership inscriptions. New, uniform bindings.
Tractate Yevamot was not printed in Shanghai (the students of the Mir yeshiva studied this tractate in Kobe, Japan, before reaching Shanghai; hundreds of volumes of the tractate were sent to Japan from the United States by Rabbi Kalmanowitz). See: A. Elbaum, Defusei Shanghai UShe'erit Hapletah, HaMaayan, vol. 40, issue 3, Nissan 2000.