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May 6, 2026

When the U.S. Military Published the Talmud

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In 1946, the U.S. military coordinated with Jewish organizations to improve the living conditions of Holocaust survivors in displaced-persons camps in the Allied-occupied parts of Germany. One result was an initiative led by Samuel Snieg, a survivor of Dachau and the chief rabbi of the American zone, to print a complete set of the Talmud, since very few sacred books were available at the time. Stuart Halpern writes:

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