Steinsaltz obituary in the NYT

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Who Made the Talmud More Accessible, Dies at 83. He wrote more than 60 books, but his crowning achievement — he called it his hobby — was his 45-volume translation of a key Jewish text (Joseph Berger and Isabel Kershner).

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