Journey to Lithuania: Vilna - The Controversy of the Publication of the Vilna Shas

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay. Good afternoon everyone. We were just at the seat of the VNA shast the printing press the VNA printing press of the Ram brothers the widow Ram and her sons which is a good opportune time to talk about the uh g great controversy in the printing of the shots between the villas and what was known as the Slavita shas or the Shapiro shass. The Shapiro printing press was founded in the Ukraine in Slavita by Ramosha Shapiro. Ramoshir was a student was was the son of Rapinhas Karaser and he had a major printing press and when he printed the shas in 1807 he wanted to get a huskama and also a copyright. So the balhatana himself signed on the copyright that nobody is allowed to compete with this shas for 25 years. It

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1. 0:00Okay. Good afternoon everyone. We were just at the seat of the VNA shast the printing…
2. 0:30in the Ukraine in Slavita by Ramosha Shapiro. Ramoshir was a student was was the son…
3. 1:00was signed on uh many Raban and including the Balatana in the 1830s when the VNA…
4. 1:31shots in 1807. But since then I updated it. I revamped it and the shot clock…
5. 2:02uh was fired from the Shapiro press. He was found dead. One of the printers who…
6. 2:32accusations against Shapiro. And in 1856 the Shapiro moved their operation from Slavita and they moved…
7. 3:05Also in uh Ukraine and this is a little bit of the history. So this um…

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