Hanoch's father Shalom Albeck was the editor of several works by Rishonim including Raavan, Meiri on tractate Yevamot, and Ha-Eshkol (The Cluster) by Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne.

Albeck's son-in-law, Yoseph Aryeh Bachrach, was killed in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in the battle for Jerusalem, leaving behind a wife and two children.

[1] In 1935, Albeck immigrated to Mandatory Palestine where he was appointed as professor and head of the Talmud department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a position he held for 25 years.

Albeck's version was written, both stylistically and in its use of the Vilna text, as a continuation and expansion of the uncompleted earlier work of Hayyim Nahman Bialik.

[4] Following a lawsuit, a compromise was reached in which a notice was put in the newer editions of the commentary acknowledging Margulies' contribution.