Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin and Tractate Shavuot, with the classic commentators. Vilna: Widow and Brothers Romm, 1887.
Lengthy inscription in pencil on the front endpaper, in which the owner of this Talmud volume, a Jew from Czernowitz, describes the trials and tribulations he endured during WWI, beginning from his expulsion from Czernowitz, Bukovina far into Russia, his arrest, the danger he was in, the fellow Jewish exiles he met, and more. The inscription concludes with a list of the tractates he studied during his wanderings. The present tractates – Sanhedrin and Shavuot, were studied upon his return to Czernowitz in 1917.
Other inscriptions on the front endpapers.
124; 32; 50; 24; 60; 5; 8; 33; 18; 5 leaves. 40 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears to several leaves. Worming. Original leather binding, damaged.

Torah Study Under Perilous Conditions – During Expulsion and Imprisonment in WWI
The present Talmud volume contains a unique historic documentation from WWI, first hand testimony of a Jew from Czernowitz who was arrested, presumably during the Russian conquest, in the village of Prilipcze, Bukovina, in Adar 1915, and deported deep into Russia. He describes the difficulties he endured, including arrest and even danger of death. Eventually he was brought to Penza, Russia, where he was released. In Penza, he met some six hundred Jews who had also been exiled from Bukovina and Galicia. He stayed there for over a year, until he was granted permission to return to Czernowitz, which he reached in Kislev 1916. He found it conquered, empty of its inhabitants and ransacked. His sons and daughters were not there anymore, and he remained there alone. Throughout this difficult period, the author studied and completed eight tractates, including one which he studied in prison in Surazh (Chernihiv Oblast, Russia), as he records at the end of his inscription.
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