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New York (JTA) — Despite and
even because of the passing of the
Lubavitcher rebbe, Lubavitch
emissaries are continuing to
press the Russian government to
return a Lubavitch library of
more than 12,000 books and 300
manuscripts being held at the
Russian State Library in
Moscow.
The matter of the book was
raised during a meeting in Wash-
ington that some Jewish leaders
held with visiting Russian Prime
Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.
Retrieval of the collection,
which was appropriated by the
Soviets in 1921 and placed at the
former Lenin Library, was a pri-
ority of the Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson, who died
June 12.
Although Russian President
Boris Yeltsin and a Russian court
ordered the books returned to
Lubavitch as far back as 1991,
only eight books have been given
back to the Chasidic movement.
Seven of the books accompa-
nied President Clinton on his re-
turn from Europe in February
and another one was returned
personally by Vice President Al
Gore, who was given the book
during a visit to Moscow in De-
cember.
Mr. Gore gave the book to
Lubavitch emissary Rabbi
Boruch Shlomo Eliyohu Cunin,
who delivered it to the rebbe be-
fore he suffered a stroke.
Rabbi Cunin, who lives in Los
Angeles, has been shuttling back
and forth between Moscow and
Washington for several years in
pursuit of the Lubavitch library,
engaging the help of U.S. gov-
ernment officials in doing so.
Rabbi Cunin, who has met per-
sonally with Mr. Yeltsin about
the issue, said he had discussed
it with Thomas Pickering, U.S.
Ambassador to Russia, just two
days before the Lubavitcher
rebbe died.
This week, the Lubavitch
emissary and two of his sons, who
are also pursuing the return of
the books, pressed their cam-
paign on Mr. Chernomyrdin
through top U.S. officials.
Four prominent senators, in-
cluding the Senate majority and
minority leaders, wrote a letter
to Mr. Chernomyrdin asking that
he bring the books with him
when he visited Washington.
The letter from George
Mitchell, D-Maine , the Senate
majority leader; Bob Dole, R-
Kan., the minority leader, Joseph
Lieberman, D-Conn.; and Frank
Lautenberg, D-N.J., said the mat-
ter of the books is "of great im-
portance to us."
"We have raised this issue on
more than one occasion with
President Yeltsin and former
Ambassador (Vladimir) Lukin,
both of whom assured us that the
rest of the books would be re-
turned in the near future," the
senators wrote.
However, the letter was sent
after the prime minister had left
for the United States.
At the meeting with Mr. Cher-
Arthur Schneier:
A personal appeal.
nomyr din, Rabbi Arthur
Schneier, president of the Appeal
of Conscience Foundation, an ec-
umenical organization that pur-
sues religious rights issues
around the world, raised the is-
sue with the Russian prime min-
ister.
Rabbi Schneier described Mr.
Chernomyrdin as "sympathetic"
to the cause.
Rabbi Cunin said he believes
there is anti-Semitism in the Rus-
sians' failure to return the books.
He cited the Russians' recent
return of books and artifacts to
the Germans and to the Russian
Orthodox Church.
However, a spokeswoman at
the German Information Center
here said Germany, too, had been
promised the return of 500,000
artifacts and 5,185 books taken
by the Red Army . during World
War II but had not, in fact, re-
ceived them.
Largely forgotten and un-
sung, Emile Berliner was
the inventor of the
microphone and the de-
veloper of a transmitter that
prevented sound from fading
out in wire transmission,
which made Alexander
Graham Bell's telephone a
practical device.
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