Israel Shahak
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Dr. Israel Shahak was a Polish-born Israeli organic chemist, public intellectual, and civil rights activist. Shahak, a Holocaust survivor whose family immigrated to Israel after World War II, spent mu
Shahak in 1980s
Talmud
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The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism, and second in authority only to the Hebrew Bible, the first five books of which form the Torah along with the texts in Nevi'im and Ketuvim. It is a
Israel Shahak
…Jewish tradition, and, therefore, cannot be ignored. Accusations of being an antisemite were among the responses to Shahak's works about Judaism and the Talmud. In that vein, in The Talmud in Anti-Semitic Polemics, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) listed Shahak as one of four authors of antisemitic polemics…
The Talmud on display in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland brings together parts from the first two Talmud prints by Daniel Bomberg and Ambrosius Froben.
A page of a medieval Jerusalem Talmud manuscript, from the Cairo Geniza
A full set of the Babylonian Talmud
The Schottenstein Babylonian Talmud in a synagogue in Raanana, Israel