The Russia-Chabad Seforim Battle: An Overview

foreign [Music] we have mentioned in the previous lecture about the two collections in this Library one that is was collected by the Frederick in the Years after fresh Behavior 25 till 1950. and what's about the collection of this forum before the year of tough HPA before the year of 1925. election collection of this foreign that was the library in the city of Lubavitch for Generations in the headquarters of Lubavitch then there was Sephora that was collected by the previous redness of other Generations but mainly by the river shop and by his son and Ryan's the sixth large river there was a collection of about 10 12 000 values it was there till the break of the first World War in 1914. after the Germans got closer to the city of Lubavitch the family of Bezos and health family was forced to flee valdubovic they went to a stuff and what about the library they gathered all this phone into 35 large crates and they transformed it to his storage house in Moscow that was a safer place for keeping this collection after the war ended the free decade into fresh paint base in the year of 1922 tight to get this collection back into his new house in my stuff he didn't succeed the government took it away in the next year just about 100 years ago and transferred it to the public library in Moscow it was then called Romance of BlackBerry and that's why well they are in Moscow in the library till today for 100 years there are tremendous efforts by the rabbit a friend and his emissaries to try to get the release of this form the government of Russia should have dominant to the library of Chabad which is not succeed yet about 23 years ago into fresh toffee summer in the year of I was invited by the library in Moscow come help them identify the story of this collection that was in included in a larger collection we went to the whole collection and we succeeded to identify uh in the end about five and a half thousands for of the of their lavish collection they were separated and stolen as a special collection with a special Library about 10 years ago they scanned this whole collection they costed it and their sight the site of the library parallel to that we posted to this collection on our side the side of this Library in order for one to see if to see these scans of our collection the collection of the library in Lubavitch that is still in Moscow someone would have to go to Chabad library.org slash catalog and then our library is divided into about 160 sections this exception of the collection that was in Lubavitch is collection number 131 so you would have to go to our catalog and then there are in a catalog several ways how to look for slime one way is to look for the section the model you would have to select model kuf La medal of 131 and it would get a list of this as follow and then if you press on the link of the save file you would get the catalog current of this safer and in the bottom there will be a link to the scan safer that you would be able to see the whole safer as it is