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Adin Steinsaltz, groundbreaking Talmud translator, dies

by Josef Federman
| December 7, 2020 11:45 AM

JERUSALEM (AP) — Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, a prolific Jewish scholar who spent 45 years compiling a monumental and ground-breaking translation of the Talmud, has died. He was 83.

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