Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the seventh Chabad Rebbe), the Agudas Chasidei Chabad, the Chabad movement's central organization, filed a civil lawsuit to prevent Gurary from removing or selling any additional books. On legal advice, the Lubavitch Library obtained a temporary restraining order in the hope that this would resolve the matter. Agudas Chasidei Chabad later filed suit to retrieve the books. The Chabad movement argued that the library was the "communal property" of the Lubavitch Hasidim and not the "personal possessions" of the late Rebbe. They cited a letter written by the Rebbe himself, supporting this notion. In 1986, the court ruled in favor of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, and that ruling was upheld on appeal in 1987. The volumes were returned to the library. In the Chabad community, the ruling is celebrated on the Fifth of Teves; the day is called "Didan Notzach" ("ours won"). Schneerson collection controversy When Sholom Dovber and Yosef Yitzchak left Russia and Europe, an estimated 10,000 volumes from their collection remained behind. Since the war it has been stored in the Russian State Library. In 2010 Chabad filed suit against the Russian Library in an attempt to retrieve its collection. On July 30, 2010, Royce C. Lamberth, a federal judge of the United States District Court in Washington, ruled in favor of the Chabad organization, ordering Russia to turn over all Schneerson documents held at the Russian State Library, the Russian State Military Archive and elsewhere, and ordered to pay fines of $50,000 a day for failing to send the rest of the collection to the United States. Russia claims the collection is a national treasure of the Russian people, since Rabbi Schneersohn had no heirs. A Russian court also ordered the Library of Congress to pay fines of $50,000 a day for holding the books they borrowed in 1994. See also Jewish Public Library (Montreal) Albert and Temmy Latner Jewish Public Library (Toronto) References External links Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad Official Website Chabad organizations Jewish libraries Jewish literature Libraries in Brooklyn Yiddish-language literature Jews and Judaism in Brooklyn Chabad in the United States 1940 establishments in New York City Research libraries in the United States