Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — Reproducing the Talmud. [ARTICLE]

Reproducing the Talmud.

One of the circumstances due to the war is that it has been found necessary to reproduce the plates for printing the Hebrew Talmud, originally produced in the town of Wilna, Russia. r When this city was captured by Germany the electrotypes of the Talmud, it is reported, were used for ammunition. To reset the work in Hebrew would take years with an ordinary outfit. - • It was found necessary that the plates should be made by photo-engrav-ing, ’and this wort is now being done In Montreal under the auspices of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States arid Canada. «• The Talmud contains 9,000 pages, 8 by 14, and itis divided into 18 volumes. The first volume is finished, and the second 1* in print now. It is estimated that It wifi take about two years before the work is completed.