About Origin of Some Jewish Manuscripts (Fond 182 of the RNL Manuscript Department)
Journal: Tirosh Jewish Slavic & Oriental Studies
Year: 2020

In the Soviet time, libraries only preserved the names of private and, occasionally, institutional collections. Standalone manuscripts or small sets of manuscripts would become part of the collections in national languages. The information concerning the origins of new arrivals was not considered valuable enough to keep record of. Such was the case of Fond 182 of the Manuscript Department of the Russian National Library, commonly referred to as the Schneerson Library. Close examination of the co