For the first time since the Soviet Revolution, the Lenin State Library which is the largest in the U.S.S.R., today announced establishment of direct contact with publishers in Palestine for the purpose of securing Hebrew literature for its Jewish section. The announcement revealed that the Jewish section of the Lenin Library in Moscow is at present engaged in compiling a catalogue in Hebrew of the 70,000 volumes there, which include works in Yiddish and in Hebrew, as well work on Jews written in English, French, German, Italian and other languages. Many of the most rare and valuable works were moved to safekeeping in the interior of the country when Moscow was threatened by the German armies.
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