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Group Halts
Vatican
Publishing

London (JTA) — Cam-
paigners fighting to force the
Vatican to return sacred
manuscripts plundered from
European Jewry over six
centuries scored their first
victory this week when the
West German publishers of
the Official History of the
Vatican Library agreed to
postpone its release in
Britain.
The publishing house
Belser Verlag had originally
planned to launch the book
in Britain next month.
So far, 75 copies of the Of-
ficial History have been
printed, priced at about $90
each.
Businessman Manfred
Lehmann, who heads the
Committee for the Recovery
of Jewish Manuscripts, was
jubilant when he learned the
publishers had backed down
on their plans.
Mr. Lehmann objected to
the book because it failed to
acknowledge that the Heb-
rew manuscripts in the
library's collection were
stolen during a wave of
"spiritual genocide"
unleashed against Jewish
communities in medieval
and Renaissance Europe.
Mr. Lehmann, a busi-C.
nessman and collector of
Judaica with interests in
London and New York,
called on British Jewry to
join the wider campaign to
restore Jewish books to their
rightful owners.
One of the committee's
broader goals is to recover
Jewish books and
manuscripts "for the Jewish
people" and deposit them in
the National Library in
Jerusalem.
Its goal is supported by
Israeli President Chaim
Herzog, the Board of
Deputies of British Jews and
Orthodox groups in the
United States.
The plundering and
destruction of Jewish books
and manuscripts began in
1243, when 12,000 volumes
of the Talmud were publicly
burned in Paris and peaked
with the bull of Pope Cle-
ment VIII in 1593 branding
all Hebrew writings
blasphemous, obscene, im-
pudent and to be consigned
to the flames, Mr. Lehmann
noted.
The Vatican at that time
was determined to wipe out
Jewish learning and study,
he said. Now it studiously
ignores the committee's pro-
tests, Lehmann has claimed.
The German publishers

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