Saul Lieberman Institute of Talmudic Research

Created through the generosity of the Dr. Bernard Heller Foundation, the institute honors the memory of Professor Saul Lieberman (1898–1983) and strives to maintain the high standards of scholarship and teaching that he set for his students.

The Lieberman Institute continues to develop modern and rigorous computer tools for Talmud study. The goal of the institute is to create databases that will provide access to the innumerable variant readings of talmudic texts in manuscript form and through early printed witnesses. To support this goal, the following extensive computer-based research tools have been developed:

• The Sol and Evelyn Henkind Talmud Text Data Bank, which includes the full text of all manuscripts and first-printed editions of the Babylonian Talmud, with sophisticated search capabilities. The computerized database provides scholars with the means to analyze the literary and stylistic features throughout the breadth and depth of the entire Talmud and in its versions.
• The Index of References Dealing with Talmudic Literature, which provides researchers access to thousands of references to talmudic passages in modern research and medieval scholarship.

The databases can be accessed through the computer terminal at the reference desk of The Library and are also distributed by subscription.

For more information, please email liebermaninst@hotmail.com or talmud@netvision.net.il.