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{{short description|Translation into English of Rashi's commentary on the Torah}}
{{italic title}}[[File:Rashi Pentateuch English.jpg|thumb|Title page of the Leviticus volume]]The '''''Pentateuch with Rashi's Commentary Translated into English''''', was first published in London from 1929 to 1934 and is a scholarly English language translation of the full text of the [[Written Torah]] and [[Rashi]]'s [[Rashi#Commentary on the Tanakh|commentary]] on it. The five-volume work was produced and annotated by Rev. M. Rosenbaum and Dr Abraham M. Silbermann in collaboration with A. Blashki and L. Joseph.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/books/NNL_ALEPH001969098/NLI |title=Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos, Haphtaroth and Rashi's commentary / translated into English and annotated by M. Rosenbaum and A. M. Silbermann in collaboration with A. Blashki and L. Joseph.  |publisher=[[National Library of Israel]] |access-date=23 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ixtheo.de/Record/117338717X |title=Pentateuch: with targum onkelos, haphtaroth and prayers for sabbath and Rashi's commentary |website=[[Index Theologicus]] |access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref> The work has an extensive appendix of notes which display notable critical scholarship; the authors tackle difficult comments of Rashi. All the [[Hebrew]] text, including the Rashi, is in [[Niqqud|pointed]] non-Rashi [[font]]. The work is commonly known today as "Silberman's Rashi" (even though he was the second named co-author).
==Authors==
Morris Rosenbaum (1871-1947) was a [[UK]] [[rabbi]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Profiles/minister_profiles_orthodox_R.htm\  |title=Rabbinical Profiles |publisher=JCR-UK |access-date=1 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=[[Everyman's Judaica]] |page=511 |publisher=W. H. Allen, London |date=1975}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95017907.html  |title=Rosenbaum, M. (Morris), 1871-1947 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref> Abraham Morris (or Moritz) Silbermann (1889-1939) studied in [[Berlin]] and had settled in [[England]], he was known for his 1927 German and English dictionary of the [[Talmud]], [[Midrash]] and [[Targum]] (co-authored with [[:he:%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9A %D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%90|Baruch Krupnik]]) and he was the publishing director of ''Shapiro, Valentine & Co''.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Everyman's Judaica]] |page=553 |publisher=W. H. Allen, London |date=1975}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/silbermann-abraham-moritz |title=Silbermann, Abraham Moritz |publisher=www.encyclopedia.com |access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref> Aaron Blashki and Louis Joseph were learned laymen<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bibles.wikidot.com/rosenbaumsilbermann |title=Rosenbaum and Silbermann |publisher=bibles.wikidot.com |access-date=24 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Apple |first=Raymond |date=June 2010 |title=Jewish scholarship in Sydney between the Wars: Part I |journal=[[Australian Jewish Historical Society]] |volume=19 |pages=4 |url=https://www.oztorah.com/2010/07/jewish-scholarship-in-sydney-between-the-wars/#.X0SkXTVS82x }}</ref> from [[Sydney]], [[NSW]].
==History==
The work was first published by the [[East End]] Jewish publisher ''Shapiro, Valentine & Co'': [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] in 1929 and finally [[Deuteronomy]] in 1934. The volumes were printed in [[Wittenberg]]. The contemporary academic reviews were positive, even enthusiastic.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Notices of Books |date=January 1933 |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society]] |volume=62 |pages=906–909 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00071951}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Notices of Books |date=January 1933 |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society]] |volume=65 |pages=140–141 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00072592}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Notices of Books |date=January 1935 |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society]] |volume=67 |pages=750 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00095770}}</ref> The work is dedicated to [[Phillip Blashki]] and his wife Hannah.
The Silbermann family republished the work in collaboration with [[Routledge|Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd]]  in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/rashi-a-m-silbermann-m-rosenbaum |title=search "rashi-a-m-silbermann-m-rosenbaum" |website=[[Abebooks]] |access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref> In 2012 the Rashi translation was translated from [[English language|English]] into [[German language|German]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bibles.wikidot.com/rosenbaumsilbermann |title=Rosenbaum and Silbermann |publisher=bibles.wikidot.com |access-date=24 August 2020}}</ref>
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