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Mr. Michael Sasson's letter of
Sept. 10 (Blind Eye To
Bosnia) is full of misinforma-
tion regarding Bosnia's Mus-
lims.
It is absurd for Mr. Sasson
to inject the Jews of this coun-
try and the Israeli govern-
ment into the Bosnian
situation. It is ludicrous to
compare the Holocaust to the
Bosnian Muslims, who are
fighting for more land. Six
million Jews died in crema-
toria — they did not throw
stones or bombs, or kill Ger-
mans, or demand land from
Germany or any other Euro-

pean country.
While Bosnia's Muslims
served the Nazis during
World War II, Israel has ac-
cepted 70 Bosnian Muslims
and settled them in an Arab
town. But the local Muslims
don't want anything to do
with them.
It is a shame and a disgrace
to compare the Holocaust to
the pro-Nazi Bosnian Mus-
lims and have Jewish bleed-
ing hearts say the Israeli
army uses Nazi methods
against the Palestinians, who
kill Jews on a daily basis.
These people should apolo-
gize to Israel and not be so
one-sided. It is good to build
only two-way bridges with
other ethnic groups and na-
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Shlomo Micznik
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National Treasure
Found In Libraries

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ver one hundred years
old but still young at
heart. Jerusalem's Jew-
ish National and Uni-
versity Library's (JNUL)
centennial exhibition, "a Cen-
tury of Books," only hints at
the treasures that lie within.
Founded in 1892 with
several thousand books from
the Midrash Abrabanel
Library, the library now holds
a collection of three million
books, 11,000 Hebrew manu-
scripts, microfilms of an addi-
tional 47,000 manuscripts
and 200,000 manuscript
fragments.
Today housed in the Lady
Davis Building on the
Hebrew University's Givat
Ram campus, the JNUL's
treasures also include the
world's largest collection of
Hebrew incunabula (books
printed before 1500), the Na-
tional Sound Archives,
dedicated to preserving
Jewish musical heritage, and
countless special collections,

including the personal papers
of Albert Einstein.
The volumes in Yiddish,
Ladino, Judeo-Arabic,
English, French, German,
Russian, as well as Hebrew,
reflect the dynamic culture of
the Jewish people during its
many wanderings and the
complex interplay and
mutual influence with the
cultures among which it
lived.
"Amassing the collection
was no easy task," says Pro-
fessor Israel Shatzman, direc-
tor of JNUL. "By 1948, when
the JNUL became legally en-
titled to receive copies of all
works published within the
borders of the sovereign
Jewish state, they couldn't
hope to acquire major Jewish
collections. Many treasures
and rare works had already
been procured by libraries
around the world."
Nevertheless, the JNUL
contains some of the world's

oldest, rarest and most valu-
able Judaica documents. ❑

