Brooklyn-based ArtScroll launches ‘breakthrough’ iPad Talmud app
A team of over 40 scholars and technicians developed the ArtScroll’s Schottenstein Digital Edition of the Talmud for offline use. The application retains the integrity of the original printed form while introducing state-of-the-art learning enhancements to deepen and broaden any Talmud learner’s study.
A competing company based in Israel was also working to launch a Talmud app during July, but voracious Talmud students can appreciate being “locavore” by using ArtScroll’s new product. ArtScroll, based in Sunset Park, is the largest English language publisher today of scholarly and popular Judaica books, with over 1,400 titles in print, including the celebrated “Kosher by Design Cookbook” series. The company was established in 1976 through the publication of a single-volume anthologized commentary on the biblical Book of Esther.
Version 1.0 of the ArtScroll Digital Talmud contains numerous features that are expected both delight the seasoned Talmud learner, and provide valuable support for the novice. It is designed so that users of this app can feel at home with the ArtScroll formatting of the Hebrew page of Talmud with its familiar signature commentary on the facing pages. However, at the press of a finger, the learner can access all the notes, including the Talmud with vowel points and commentary, without having to leaving the original Hebrew page.