The collection of the Schneerson family is an assemblage of books of a Hasidic dynasty of the Schneersons who are known as the founders of the Chabad movement, the centre of which was located in Lubavitchi (Smolensk region). The collection was started by the first Lubavitch Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi in 18 – beg.19^th century, and accomplished by his successors. In 1915, the books were carried to Moscow to be stored there. After the revolution of 1917, the collection was nationalized, and it entered the RSL depository.

Books and manuscripts from the Shneerson collection were originally created in Jewish languages – the majority of them being in Hebrew, while several were in Yiddish or Aramaic. Still all of them deal with the Judaism practices, diverse matters of

Jewish religious legislation and Hasidic theology. The collection includes numerous editions of Judaism canonic texts such as Tanakh, the Talmud, the Shulchan Aruch, etc.

The books of the collection were published within the period of mid 16 – beg. 20^th centuries in Europe and in the Middle East. For the time being almost all of them are available in the electronic form.