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U.S. Help Sought
To Track Books

Washington (JTA) — A New
York congresswoman has
written to Secretary of State
Warren Christopher urging
the United States to aid
Russia in recovering several
dozen medieval Jewish
manuscripts stolen from the
Russian National Library.
The manuscripts, re-
portedly stolen over a period
of years, include Torah
scrolls, Talmudic commen-
taries and prayerbooks from
as early as the 13th century.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney,
D-N.Y., motivated by a press
report about the thefts,
wrote to Mr. Christopher.
Ms. Maloney wrote that
given the shaky economic
and political situation in
Warren Christopher:
Russia, the United States
Received an appeal.
should offer the assistance of
the FBI and other law-
ing for decades, most intent-
enforcement agencies in
ly for the past two years, to
tracking down the
retrieve some 12,000
manuscripts.
Lubavitch books that have
The Associated Press re-
been kept at the Lenin
ported last week that offi-
Library in Moscow.
cials of the Russian National
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky,
Library's collection of
spokesman for the Lubavit-
medieval Jewish
cher rebbe, said fears were
manuscripts say that many
corroborated two years ago
manuscripts have been
that Lubavitch books and
stolen, most probably over a
others from the Lenin
period of years.
Library's Hebraica collec-
The AP article said the
tion were being pilfered.
documents, which are 250 to
Some Lubavitch books
700 years old, are showing
were found in the office of a
up for sale in New York and
man who had been removed
Jerusalem, at asking prices
from his government posi-
of millions of dollars. They
tion. And several Hebrew
are being sold at "unofficial
books from a valuable 400-
auctions," it was reported.
year-old collection were
According to the article,
found by a librarian near a
the librarians know that a
rubbish bin.
former employee of the Na-
Rabbi Krinsky said it was
tional Library — formerly
probable that the books were
called the Saltykov-
placed in the garbage as a
Schedrin Library, and
means to remove the books
located in St. Petersburg —
from the library. ❑
is the culprit and that the
employee lives abroad and
has not been charged by the
Russian police.
From 1949 to 1967 the
Scholars believe the miss-
United Nations made no
ing books are part of the
protest against the Jorda-
Cairo Genizah, a treasure of
nian destruction of the Jew-
handwritten manuscripts
ish Quarter of Jerusalem,
collected by Cairo's Jewish
the vandalization of Jewish
community and brought to
graves on the Mount of Ol-
Russia about 150 years ago
ives or the Jordanian refusal
by a collector, Abraham
to allow either Israeli Jews
Firkovitch.
or Israeli Arabs access to
The article said that last
their holy places. But in the
year the Israel Museum in
decade following the
Jerusalem bought an 18th-
reunification of the city in
century ketubah, or mar-
June 1967, a series of UN
riage contract, without
resolutions condemned all
realizing it was stolen.
Israeli building, urban de-
Lubavitcher Chasidim are
velopment and archeological
personally familiar with the
work east of the 1949 ar-
problem of book theft in
mistice line.
Russia. They have been try-

